Corinthian Democracy will be the subject of a series by director and screenwriter Moara Passoni, who collaborated on Petra Costa’s “Democracy in Vertigo” (2019).
The movement was born in the 1980s, when athletes came together to have the right to express their opinion on the details of their work and the direction of the São Paulo club, as well as defending the right to freedom of expression without being censored. . At that time, football players usually didn’t have a political opinion. But players Walter Casagrande, Sócrates, Wladimir, Zenon, Adilson, Biro Biro and Zé Maria, among others, ended up becoming examples.
Named by Juca Kfouri and marketed by Washington Olivetto, who was working with Corinthians at the time, Democracia Corinthiana was a period in the club’s history where important decisions such as hiring, concentration rules, right to consume alcohol in public, freedom of expression political and other opinions were decided through the equal vote of its members, so that the coach’s vote, for example, was worth as much as that of an employee or a player. This created a sort of “self-management” of the team, something completely revolutionary, which yielded titles like the Campeonato Paulista in 1982.
Additionally, Corinthians became the first club to use the jersey to advertise advertising slogans. At the initiative of Washington, the uniform began printing political phrases, such as “Diretas Já” and “I want to vote for the president”. It was still in the period of military dictatorship, when social movements began to reorganize to demand the return of democracy.
Democracy began to decline in 1984, when Sócrates went to Italy and Casagrande to São Paulo, and ended in 1986 when the then president of Corinthians Waldemar Pires was unable to elect his successor.
The story was told in the book “Democracy Corintiana – A Utopia em Jogo”, by Sócrates and Ricardo Gozzi, and has already won a documentary, “Ser Campeão é Detail – Democracia Corinthiana”, a 2011 medium-length film, which can be found on Youtube.
The series is produced by Maria Farinha Filmes and, according to an article by Patricia Kogut, in the newspaper O Globo, is in talks with streaming channels and platforms.
Source: Terra
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