Pedro Sousa Almeida is a researcher at The Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) where he conducts research on racial issues. Currently, he coordinates the project “Racism and Xenophobia in Portugal: normalization of hate speech online”, funded by the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (FCT). Pedro holds a P.h.D in “Democracy in the Twenty-first Century”, in the field of critical theory, by the University of Coimbra (2019), institution where he also took his degree in Anthropology (2001). He completed a Master’s degree in “Family and Social Systems” at the Miguel Torga Institute of Higher Education (2004), where he worked as a teacher between 2002 and 2010. From the idea that sport is a uniquely favourable field for studying social reality, his main research interests have centred on the relations between football, race, racism, postcolonialism and national identity. He has also published on football violence, as well on the relations between football and neoliberalism.