%0 Journal Article %T Caracteriza£¿£¿o do perfil retrospectivo do dirigente esportivo de clube de futebol profissional da primeira divis£¿o, entre os anos 2003 e 2007 %A Azev¨ºdo %A Paulo Henrique %A Spessoto %A Rubens Eduardo Nascimento %J Revista Portuguesa de Ci¨ºncias do Desporto %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the purpose of this investigation was to examine the evolution of the social, economical and cultural profiles of the managers of the professional sports organizations that participated in the first division soccer league of the federal district, brazil, during the championship's editions between 2003 and 2007. as for profile were considered general characteristics, aspects and character as defined in this study. it was an descriptive and backwards research, that used a questionnaire and documentary analysis as instruments of survey, in which the 19 leaders who managed their clubs in this competitions were studied, concerning the following variables: gender, age group, level of schooling, marital status, main occupancy, monthly personal income and cargo in the sports club. the results showed that this managers are male, married, with complete or incomplete university education, have monthly income between us$1422.64 to above us$1778.31, all of them being presidents of their respective sports clubs. %K sports %K sports management %K soccer %K sports managers. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-05232009000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en