Under local sporting and political controversies, amplified at the global level for the mega event of FIFA's World Cup, is being constructed in Itaquera, a neighborhood at the east side of São Paulo, the home-stadium of the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, arena chosen for opening the big event in 2014. This article aims to present the first results of the fieldwork I have been doing at the surrounds of the construction of this stadium, and assuming the vantage point to understand how the fans produce and build the symbolic foundations of this monumental building. My aim here is to resume the dynamics of football fans in a city as São Paulo, where the contrast between different club supporters captures a single moment in which a mega event yields disputes and feuds for the city spaces and resets a way to support the team called corintianismo.
anthropology of sports practices; mega sports events; São Paulo; styles of supporter