A influência de um time de futebol em uma economia local: investimentos públicos e a percepção da população

Abstract

The possibility of the existence of a football team in a particular locality has the ability to attract economic investment and improve the performance of the economy, has been the argument of rulers and leaders who advocate financial support to the teams. Based on allegations like this, from the year 2010, some soccer teams in Brazil began a movement space reallocation recent phenomenon had as background the economic motivational factor, these incentives being offered to teams through public subsidies or transfer of administration and economic exploitation, sometimes free public sports equipment. Assuming that there are positive impacts on the economy of a locality by reason of soccer activities, and also, that the local people first wanted a football team in the county, thus supporting the investments of public power in the team, that these assumptions were based on existing national literature and also through conversations with actors who are involved in the process. We sought to investigate whether positive economic impacts occur to a municipality by virtue of the existence of a football team and the perception that the actors involved in the process have regarding this impact. An exploratory research that took 290 respondents by structured questionnaires, as a sample of the population of a municipality in southern of Minas Gerais state brazilian, 54 merchants of the service sector and even a sample with 1100 goers football matches that took place throughout the year was held 2013 in that county. Quantitative analysis demonstrated that the investment made by the government to keep the team in relation to the capacity to generate resources by this football team was not compensatory for the municipality's economic point of view, when it is both cost benefit, which is what we will discuss. Exploratory research has also demonstrated that the actors involved in the interaction football, public finance and economic return teams have an objectified view of the relationship of positive impacts and benefits for the community, which is being deconstructed depth issues when dealing with reality and the daily lives of these actors, by means of specific questions that could be related to the expected economic impacts.