Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Corinthians excels again

There was an uncomfortable writing of nine games without winning Flamengo, which made Itaquera their home.

And the red-black, much more whole than Corinthians, had everything to go undefeated in the Clássico do Povo.

Inoculated by the miracle in front of Boca Juniors, the crumbling white man managed to balance the game, although without finishing against the carioca goal and counting on a decisive new performance by Cássio, in his 600th game with the white shirt.

As fate would have it, at the beginning of the second half the first ball kicked between the carioca goalposts came in – and sent by the red-black side Rodinei, with a quick passage through alvinegro in 2012, when he played just once.

From then on, despite Flamengo reinforcing the team with two more starters, Everton Ribeiro and Pedro, in addition to Marinho, Corinthians was superior and created more chances to expand the 1-0 than ran the risk of suffering a draw, although the Flamengo was able to draw.

In the preview of the quarterfinals of Libertadores, when Corinthians should be much stronger, a new injection of overcoming will do the almost heroic alvinegro squad very well.

Fred, 199

At a party at the height of Fred’s career at the crowded Maracanã, the Fluminense striker said goodbye to football without scoring the 200th goal with the tricolor shirt.

Better that way.

There are two nines in 199, the best possible tribute to one of the greatest strikers in the history of Brazilian football, who had Arthur Friedenreich, Leônidas da Silva, Ademir de Menezes, Vavá, Coutinho, Tostão, “only” in the 1970 World Cup, Roberto Dinamite , Romário, Careca and Ronaldo Fenômeno, to name just ten and complete the 11 with Fred.

house factor

The Copa do Brasil has big clashes this weekend, but two deserve special mention in the southeast of the country: Palmeiras x São Paulo and Flamengo x Atlético Mineiro, in the green house and Maracanã.

The visitors defend minimal advantages obtained in the first games and will have powerful opponents to keep them, because both Palmeiras and Flamengo have the comebacks as a matter of honor, in addition to crowded stadiums in their favor.

Corinthians against Santos, at Vila Belmiro, and América against Botafogo, at Nilton Santos, have comfortable advantages to reach the quarterfinals — 4-0 and 3-0, respectively, in the games in Itaquera and Horto.

The other disputes, Ceará x Fortaleza, at Castelão, Goiás x Atlético Goianiense, at Serrinha and Cruzeiro x Fluminense, at Mineirão, are open and only Athletico x Bahia, at Arena da Baixada, seems resolved for the people of Paraná.

chic shack

From a height of 1.93 m, and with a powerful serve, the Australian Nick Kyrgios, 27, managed to make the final of the most traditional tennis tournament, in the sanctuary of Wimbledon, a shack with delicious moments of the purest floodplain, if in the floodplain the white sport was played — remembering that white people are only respected on the courts of the London complex that serves strawberry with cream.

Kyrgios appeared in red, had to change shoes, got into trouble with the chair referee, with fans, and tried all the time, in the decision, to destabilize Novak Djokovic, the stupidly anti-vaccination Serbian, but impressively cold, able to ignore his rival and win the tournament for the seventh time by defeating the bad boy 3-1.