(Faculty of History,NanKai University,Tianjin 300350,China) Abstract: The author analyzed race predicament and self healing in Brazilian football at such 3 development stages as amateur period, professionalization initial period and professionalization age, and interpreted that football in Bra-zilian society is no longer just a sport, but a miniature of Brazilian society and a representative of Brazilian culture. The author put forward the following opinions: in the amateur football period, the original race predicament in Bra-zilian society got a chance for self healing for the first time in the football world, Brazilian football entered into the development period hence, Brazilian football was more popular and started internationalization; however, race pre-dicament did not disappear hence, but reappeared in the football world, yet boosted Brazilian football professionali-zation objectively; in the professionalization initial period, Samba football and football culture with Brazilian fea-tures matured gradually, football development fused more with social changes, football culture became a representa-tive of Brazilian culture; in the professionalization age, the race predicament of Brazilian football appeared again; and that how race predicament gets self healing or even realizes a crossing leap, will be a key point of Brazilian football development; only by breaking through such a bottleneck can Brazil truly become the kingdom of football. Key words: football culture;race predicament;Brazil |