Vol. 24 No. 253 (2019)

In the footsteps of Gilmar

The news moves, hits, hurts, shocks. Gilmar Mascarenhas de Jesus died. In Rio de Janeiro, his city, which he had visited tangibly and symbolically. Run over by a bus, while riding a bicycle to do a professional task.

He was an innovator, a pioneer in the field of Geography of Sport for this region of the world. An essential actor that encouraged this enormous field of Social Studies of Sport that drove great conceptual transformations to understand and to intervene in reality from critical, diverse and expert perspectives. He investigated both the local and global reality, his tracks hit to the distance from where the messages of pain arrive: almost the whole planet.

I see the picture of Gilmar in Buenos Aires, more or less for this time, fourteen years ago, with the background of the neighborhood of La Boca. I remember him in his smile, his gestures, his look, his word. A huge legacy that we are going to treasure.

Tulio Guterman, Director - June 2019