Get to Know Ordinary Games!

Ordinary Games is a project dedicated to mapping and understanding the infrastructural needs of sports organizations, groups, and everyday practitioners across different regions. It begins with a central question: What does a sport require in order to exist and develop in a given locality? The answer involves several elements—physical space, equipment, accessibility, safety, management, an active community, and supportive policies. By organizing this information, the project builds a realistic picture of sports conditions in Brazil, especially in territories where sporting practices are strong but historically overlooked.

Beyond collecting data, Ordinary Games aims to stimulate participation and strengthen local development through structured actions that support everyone from independent collectives to formal institutions. This cataloging process becomes the foundation for initiatives such as workshops, community events, urban sports festivals, tournaments, and small championships. These are not ends in themselves, but strategic tools to reinforce community bonds, reveal talent, and expand opportunities for inclusion.

The project views sport as a driver of social transformation. Therefore, instead of simply identifying shortcomings, it seeks to highlight viable solutions, connecting local needs with potential partners, giving visibility to marginalized practices, and promoting a more equitable, participatory, and decentralized sporting ecosystem. Ordinary Games sees the ordinary as powerful: the everyday practices taking place in alleys, courts, makeshift tracks, streets, and empty lots are recognized as authentic expressions of Brazilian sporting culture.

In this sense, the project acts as a catalyst. It observes, records, organizes, encourages, and connects—laying the groundwork so that, in the future, cities and communities can not only practice more sports but also host their own tournaments, festivals, and events in an autonomous and sustainable way. Here, sport is not just a spectacle; it is territory, identity, belonging, and possibility.