Construction and assessment of membership to a soccer barra brava. The voices of former members

In this paper, we describe the construction and assessment of membership to a football barra brava from the voices of a group of former members. We developed semi-structured inter-views with seven former members of the barra brava Trinchera Norte (Peru), who attended the stadiums in the 1990s and played a leading role in the barra brava. The participants tell us that they built their membership from the interaction with a group of peers who shared an in-terest in a soccer team. In this group, behaviors that they assumed and that stand out today were developed and defined. Thus, they value camaraderie, resilience, pride and the fight for their goals and ideals as significant learning that they continue to apply in their lives.