Peladão is the name for which is known the Campeonato de Peladas do Amazonas, an amateur
football/soccer tournament held in the
Brazilian city of
Manaus
Manaus () is the List of capitals of subdivisions of Brazil, capital and largest city of the States of Brazil, Brazilian state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas. It is the List of largest cities in Brazil, seventh-largest city in Brazil, w ...
every year between August and December. It is organized by the Rede Calderaro de Comunicação (a local media conglomerate, owner, among others, of the newspaper A Crítica and the television channel
TV A Crítica
TV A Crítica (channel 4) is a Brazilian television network based in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas. The station is the flagship broadcast property of the locally based Rede Calderaro de Comunicação, which also includes the newspapers ...
).
The tournament, established in 1973 at the initiative of local journalist Arnaldo Santos,
has more than 1,000 participating teams, making the tournament the largest amateur soccer championship in Brazil. The teams compete in 5 categories: Main, Master (for people over 39 years old), Peladão (for teenagers, with prior parental authorization and with presentation of proof of enrollment from an educational institution) Indian Peladão and feminine.
Unlike other soccer tournaments, the peladão also has a
beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes sol ...
. Each team is assigned a beauty queen to participate in the pageant. If the soccer team loses the competition, they can return to it if their beauty queen is successful. If the beauty queen decides to quit, the team is out.
The objective of the event is to teach virtues in the community through football. A specific rule of the event is that for every card earned by a team, the team's players must donate soccer balls to poor children in the community.
The first time women participated in the tournament as players was in 2008 when the women's category was established.
In 2012 the beauty pageant became a reality show called "Peladão a Bordo - O Reality" (later adopting the name "A Bordo - O Reality").
In October 2006, a German documentary, ''Pelado - Soccer Teams and Beauty Queens'', was released internationally. It was made by Lunacy Film Ltd. The Peladão Tournament was also featured in the "Celso" episode of ''Ginga'', a documentary about football styles in Brazil, produced by
Nike
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* Nike (mythology), a Greek goddess who personifies victory
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's Joga Bonito. It was also briefly featured in
Discovery Atlas
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: Brazil.
References
External links
Peladão - Soccer Teams and Beauty QueensPeladão. Die Schöne und das SpielIn:
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Peladão on the Internet Movie DatabaseGoooool! A soccer tournament in Brazil's Amazon is a win for a community and a businessWatch Peladão online on 3min.de (german version)
Football in Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Football competitions in Brazil
Beauty pageants in Brazil
Manaus
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