“ No more Maradonas warming up”: Football as a game of words and images - the chronicles of the Euro (2016) and the Confederations Cup (2017) on RTP

Abstract

Identifying the remission of the portuguese journalistic chronicle to two distinct traditions – the historical tradition, with an objective framework, and the literary tradition, with a subjective framework –, this study addresses the transposition of the 19th century newspapers’ literary tradition of the chronicle to the contemporary television journalism on football as videoterature – different from the football chronicle as report.

Videoterature as a concept was originally proposed in the late 1970s in Brazil by Artur de Távola. Within this framework we analysed a corpus of 38 chronicles broadcasted by RTP TV during the Euro 2016 and the 2017 Confederations Cup. Identifying its discursive and stylistic elements we propose a reassessment of journalistic genres’ theory within the emergence of new television languages.