Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Excluding Reinaldo from the list of strikers is a crime against football

Played by the tributes to the striker Fred, this column made a list of jerseys 9 whose 11th place, to complete a team of goalscorers, was filled by the tricolor idol.

Arthur Friedenreich, Leônidas da Silva, Ademir de Menezes, Vavá, Coutinho, Tostão, “only” in the 1970 World Cup, Roberto Dinamite, Romário, Careca and Ronaldo Fenômeno.

Someone could complain, and how did some complain!, about injustice, considering, for example, Dynamite better than Emperor Hadrian.

Injustices, however, can be attributed to the taste of each, but forgetfulness is not forgiven.
And the column kneels in the corn for having committed an unforgivable thing, which deserves huge KIRRATA, Kfouri’s errata.

Leaving Reinaldo’s name out of a list of 11 strikers is a crime against football, because Rei do Galo ranks, at least, among the five best in the history of national ludopédio.

Thankfully, this time, the direction of Atlético Mineiro did not publish any note of rejection, because the columnist would have to swallow it without accompanying the tropeiro beans. Dry!

Correction made, and Fred would drop to 12th position. Just not.

Old-school tricolors remembered Valdo, just as Corinthians protested at the absence of Baltazar, the Golden Head, and younger ones were furious with the absence of Walter Casagrande Júnior.

It didn’t stop there, far from it.

Palmeiras rightly demand the presence of Mazola and Evair, some even of Cesar Maluco, and Santos recalled the refined football of Pagão, in fact, brilliant.

Heleno de Freitas and Paulo Valentim, from Botafogo, how can I not mention them?

Serginho Chulapa, Luis Fabiano, the tricolores from São Paulo want their presence.

José Trajano remembered Ipojucan, Vasco and Portuguesa, and Luizão, world champion in 2002 and the Brazilian with the most goals in Libertadores, 29, two more than Gabigol.

And Carlyle? Dadá Maravilha, Dário Peito de Aço?, ask the miners.

And Bodinho, Jardel, Baltazar, the Artilleryman of God?, the gauchos want to know.

See, rare reader and rare reader, what a mess the poor columnist got himself into: if we stop here, the list will already have no less than 31 names, including Fred’s.

What was supposed to pay homage to the top scorer who hung up his boots turned almost into a massacre.

Which allows for another discussion, about the lack of abiding center forwards in current Brazilian football, where Argentines like Cano and Calleri shine without being called up to the national team.

Or where Hulk, at 35, calls the shots, although it is mandatory to mention the Brazilians who are abroad, such as Roberto Firmino, Gabriel Jesus, Matheus Cunha and Richarlison.

Ready! We reached 36 shirts 9.

Better stop here and tell Fred not to feel diminished, on the contrary, because it must be a source of pride to be on such a select list in more than a century of football in Brazil — suffice it to say that Friedenreich began his career in 1909, at Germania , the name that Pinheiros adopted and had to change because of the Second World War.

So, like the child who makes art and has no way of going back to stop the parents’ scolding, it remains for the columnist to say that everything was mere provocation and that even a center forward, of carrying the team on his back and taking it to the titles he disputes , only one: Yuri Alberto!