How young people understand the bonds of sport in society from a critical approach of the football content in school Physical Education starting from an intervention process of the modality is the conductive line of this work. With a view to a pedagogical proposal that teaches more than the technical and tactical skills of the game, a set of classes was launched aiming at contributions to the critical and political education of those involved in the investigation. Regarding the learning process, it was identified that the origin, institutionalization, political instrumentalization, globalization, commodification and the question of gender in football had as a main and common element, as an educational tool, the interaction arising from significant practices, together with the valorization of the historicity, experience and knowledge of the participants themselves. The young people pointed towards that which seems to make more sense to them, that which reaffirms their identities and which is more coherent with their world projects. Hence the importance of significant practices, in this case football, which explain, dialogue and assist the construction of new knowledge.