This article aims to reflect on the management of sports developed in the Metropolitan Region of Recife by analyzing the discourse of managers from 14 cities that make up this area, stressing social and cultural perceptions that influence these practices developed around these policies. To this end, we work with the methodology of content analysis in order to examine how far cultural bias interfere on the actual development of sports public policies decentralized and committed to the scope of a participatory citizenship.
Management; Public policy; Sport