Resumen

DUARTE LOZA, Marcelo Andrés. The sense of being a fan of the national soccer team of Bolivia: A perspective to understand the nation. J. Com. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.5, n.5, pp. 143-176. ISSN 2412-5733.

Bolivia could not consolidate a national project in all of its history because the diversity in its population. This article aims to explain a new perspective of the concept of nation from the football and understand how the sense of being a "hincha" of the soccer's selection constructs a national identity that emphasizes the "being nation" in an imagined community which shares a sense of belonging to the country and doesn't look for a cultural or political homogenization. When the "hincha" wears the shirt of the selection, start a process of identification with the Bolivian nation.

Palabras llave : Identity; nation; football; sense; Bolivia; hincha.