THE BODY CONSTRUCTION IN WOMEN'S SOCCER: ESTABLISHING RELATIONS WITH HEALTH
Body. Women's soccer. Health. Physical Education.
Research on the most diverse meanings and representations that the body assumes in body practices, especially in football, has gained increasing space in the field of studies on human movement, culture and education. The research about women in the soccer universe has been performed from different aspects of analysis, in various works. However, there are still many issues to be discussed, as such research analyzes one aspect or another of body practice in sport, and the issue of body building of these athletes is still missing. Given this, this research aimed to understand sociocultural aspects that contribute to the construction of the body in women's soccer and its relationships with health, in order to point reflections to Physical Education. We opted for the phenomenology of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1999) to consider the lived experiences of fifteen players of the Cruzeiro Futebol Clube team of Macaíba / RN, with other bodies and phenomena for the construction of knowledge as something infinite, unfinished. The understandings presented point to relationships between body, health and sport. We present the need to consider being in its entirety, providing the understanding of the human being in his way of being in the world, whether in sociocultural, physical, spiritual, affective or psychological issues. This study contributes to the area of Physical Education by bringing up a new way of seeing and perceiving health in Physical Education, thus allowing the professional the freedom to conduct their practices without stopping the fads imposed by the physical culture of health, and can direct the subjects involved to recognize the limits and possibilities of their own body and their health, contributing to a perception that values the Being as one, their relationships, their experiences, especially their wants.