The issue sports mega-events is one of the most important in in Brazil since the country was elected to host the football world cup 2014 and the Summer Olimpics 2016. There is a heavy investment in several areas like transport, infrastructure and especially a number of new stadiums because of these tournaments. These constructions are part of a nationwide project which obeys international norms and interferes seriously in the daily life of the Brazilian citizens. That's the reason why there is happening a strong discussion about the utility, abuses, international meaning and global tendencies of sports mega-events. Normally this discussion is about that what is called "legacy". The present article proposes to analyze with the help of the concepts "tournament of value" and the "scapes of global fluxes" by Appadurai the dispute for this legacy.
dispute; globalization; legacy; sports mega-events
