%0 Journal Article %T Dom, amor e dinheiro no futebol de espet¨¢culo %A Damo %A Arlei Sander %J Revista Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias Sociais %D 2008 %I Associa??o Nacional de P¨®s-Gradua??o e Pesquisa em Ci¨ºncias Sociais - ANPOCS %R 10.1590/S0102-69092008000100009 %X this paper aims at analyzing the tensions around love and money in the context of the spectacle soccer. initially, the different meanings of the gift are expressed as synonyms of talent and endowment in the context of the formation of the players. i shall also question the tensions coming from the fact that supporters, engaged in the spectacle from the belonging to a club, committing love and money in the system, while the athletes, in return feature their talents. a paradigmatic tension case on such relation is described and analyzed in the last part of the article. %K gift %K money %K love %K soccer %K belonging. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-69092008000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en