PANORAMA GERAL SOBRE POLÍTICAS DE ESPORTE NO BRASIL

We propose to present an overview of sport policies in Brazil, covering the history of the relationship between State and sport, institutional sports organization and sports funding. We adopted descriptive research through document and literature analysis. The national sports organization has undergone structural changes that have tended to move from a centralizing and priority character to high performance sport to a more decentralized and democratic profile. Despite the advances in this sense, the hegemonic understanding of sport in its sense of internationally-ruled competition still presents itself as a challenge to the achievement of more democratic sports policies