Régimes de réaction à la violence sur le stade de football

The violence on a soccer stadium corresponds to the technical gestures of violent character or to verbal provocations. Addressed to a player, it may aim to slow down his action or to demobilize him from his thematic role, a kind of “do doing” some programs to someone: the case of Z. Zidane expelled from the ground in 2006 following his reaction (head butt) to a provocation manifests an anti-program. However, as an operation aiming the transformation of part of the world, violence in soccer does not always achieve its goals. Its effects are not always certain. To its performative capacity (possible effects) must correspond its reception modalities (real effects). From Landowski’s proposals on interaction regims, this paper proposes four logics of reaction to violent action on a soccer stadium (affirmation, withdrawal, confrontation and subordination) that manage tensions in this type of interaction.