This study investigates the experiences of pleasure and suffering with the work of karate teachers in a metropolitan city of the state of São Paulo. The work psychodynamics was used as a theoretical approach. Seven individual interview were conducted with the teachers in 2019. The results indicate the invisibility of the work, extremely fragile contractual ties, poor structural conditions for the classes to be ...
In a hundred years of history in the Olympic movement, Brazil was represented by 52 athletes who were born abroad. None of them was born on the African continent. In Paralympic Games, however, the country counted in 2016 with the player Maurício Dumbo, born in Angola and naturalized Brazilian. This article aims to present the life story of one of these immigrants, showing the role that sport played in his integ...