The professional soccer constitutes in a category regulated in the main Brazilian urban centers in 1933, year when some soccer clubs organized themselves in order to create new private entities to manage the sport modality. However, the moment when the soccer player profession originated cannot be understood as the official landmark of the professional soccer regulation. Profession, as a sociologic category, can be understood as a specialized social function, which is offered as a response to an existing demand. Therefore, the genesis of the soccer player profession is inserted in the transformations associated to the social meaning of the practice, and the consumption of the sport modality. This genesis characterizes the modality as an industry of the sports show, and as a way of social accession for the soccer players from the least benefited sections of the society. The research objective of this masters dissertation was the sociological meaning of the soccer player professional regulation, and its national repercussion, in special the response of the America Futebol Clube in the city of Belo Horizonte. We discuss the social political context of the Vargas Government (1930-1937), by means of documental analysis of journals and memories of the social actors of that context, which were collected through open and in depth interviews. We establish relationships between the soccer professionalization movement, the political debates among the lieders of soccer organizations and the sporting managing entities of the city, especially focusing on the discussions around the professionalization of the soccer and, the strategies of the sports clubs in the city to consolidate the soccer as an industry of the sporting spectacle. We noticed that, as a response to the constant social demand, characterized by the strengthening of the soccer clubs as entities, the sporting lieders reached, through their involvement with the soccer, social respect and political achievement. Besides, we point out that the local League, and the main clubs in Belo Horizonte included the soccer in the engines of the capitalism system through the offer of soccer disputes during the 1920s. In order to improve the market of the soccer games, soccer players, the producers of the spectacle, became even more demanded. As a consequence, even before the professional regulation, we noticed the existence of specialized soccer players, even in an incipient form in the context of the sport per see, being extra officially paid, since the League only recognized the amateur soccer. The creating of the profession division in 1933 offered basic rights to soccer players and broke with the lack of definition of their status in that context, which even though performed as professionals, were considered as amateurs. However, the sources present the fact as an initiative that came from the sporting leaders, but not as a deserved conquest of the workers of the ball