FOOTBALL PLAYED BY WOMEN IN URUGUAY

GENDER PERSPECTIVE AND DISCOURSES THAT INTERVENE ON THE ROAD TO PROFESSIONALIZATION

Abstract

Through the gradual increase in the participation of women in Uruguayan football, a dispute for their own space to represent them began to take shape, initiating a process of demands for decent conditions and rights as workers-footballers, which had as a relevant fact the initiative of one of the most recognised sports institutions in the country, the Club Nacional de Football, as the one in charge of the creation of a plan for the professionalisation of football played by women. The general objective of this research was to understand the different political perspectives of those who participate in women's football and who support the discourse of professionalisation, in order to analyse what kind of logics are intended to be reproduced by this process. To this end, research was carried out during the period from 2018 to 2024, through media observation, interviews with women footballers, the Organisation of Uruguayan Women Footballers and the Uruguayan Football Association, with a theoretical framework that sought to interweave social and cultural studies on sport with the gender perspective.