Approximations around the process of emergence and structure of the football in the city of Córdoba (1890-1920)

Abstract

The present article approaches briefly the process of emergence and structuring of the football and its associative practice in the city ofCórdobabetween the end of XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. This process transformed its social space and modified, among other things, the use of free time and the leisure of the population, their ways of associating, their spaces of sociability and their identity ties.

In general, the practice was structured on the organization of clubs, collective constructions of voluntary character and with the equal participation between their members that were formed as means of expression and generation of identities in a society in change. The clubs represented different origins and, from the sociability ties that were forged in the associative circuit, played an important role in reaffirming the sense of belonging of the subjects.