Youth identity and football: rituality turned into violence

Abstract

This paper seeks to expose the relationship of the trilogy: Soccer, Youth and rituality that has become synonymous with violence almost everywhere in the world. In recent years this reality has been experienced in two lines, on the one hand, the exacerbation of violence linked to football and on the other, the search for prevention and awareness of young fans exposed to this generation of violence. Young people are in a stage of construction of their identity that should be of otherness; the other one is accepted for the things in common, football, music, but at the same time the other one is denied for his football team, symbolism, territory, etc., in this process the young man who is part of the brave bars, builds identity from that acceptance and negation of the other different and by the acceptance of the other equal.