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This paper explores the interviews conducted within the “Memories of Soccer” project, developed by the Museum of Image and Sound (São Paulo, Brazil). In these, the figure of Brazilian Professor José Sebastião Witter stands out as a master of what can be classified today as ‘deviation of good practices.’ During the recordings, he promoted interruptions and comments, debating the interviewees and counterpointing his own thesis on the topics discussed. By posing his questions, he took the lead of the testimonies, reiterating his experiences within soccer. If such heterodoxy curtailed the interviewee’s line of reasoning, embarrassment to expose ideas or defense of biased versions to please the interviewer, on the other hand, the set of accounts allows us to construct a mosaic of Witter’s thought, a pioneer in raising soccer to the status of academic object.
