The written press has undergone many changes, both in its physical format and in the construction of the texts. Over the years, written sports journalism began to mix information with spectacularity to report on the participation of the national soccer team. For this reason, the motivation arises to know the journalistic coverage that the newspapers provided to the participation of Peruvians in large-scale competitions. The objective of this research is to analyze the characteristics or qualities of the news from the newspapers La Crónica from 1939, El Comercio from 1975 and Depor from 2019, with respect to the performance of the peruvian soccer team in the finals of the Copa América. The type of research is applied at a descriptive comparative level. The notes chosen are those drawn up the day after the matches played. The population is 31 notes and the sample is 11 notes. Regarding t...

This research explores the discursive construction of the quality of sacrifice of the soccer player Paolo Guerrero in printed Peruvian Sport Journalism during the Copa America Argentina 2011 and the World Cup Brazil 2014 Qualifiers. To do that, various strategies used in the newspaper articles are identified in order to represent the sacrifice as a supposed essence of our national identity. It argues that the exaltation of sacrificial worship through the figure of Guerrero constructs a “must-be” for the Peruvian nation, since this alleged sacrifice is always made for the nation and their entire community’s interests. The critical spirit of this work is to locate, within the journalistic texts referred, the fissures and paradoxes that are hidden in their own textures, so this essentialist ideology can be denature and propose a change of paradigm in this type of journalistic genre th...