Datafolha reveals that 55% of Brazilians do not want a foreign coach as an eventual replacement for Tite in the Brazilian team.
The notorious José Maria Marin once turned down the possibility of bringing in none other than Catalan Pep Guardiola, the world number 1. The argument was as low-key as possible: “We are five-time world champions with Brazilian coaches.”
To be fair, it was more arrogance than xenophobia.
Especially because in a country that mistreats its original peoples, and is full of descendants of Portuguese, Italians, Japanese, Spanish, Germans, etc., prejudice against foreigners is unreasonable.
Would Guardiola not be welcome? The German Jürgen Klopp? The Italian Carlo Ancelotti? Now, let’s be serious.
Our men’s volleyball, even after winning the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, benefited from the exchange with the Korean Young Wan Sohn three years later, although it was contested by the athletes.
Men’s basketball also benefited and returned to the Olympics after bringing the Argentine Rubén Magnano to the London Games in 2012.
Not to mention women’s handball, simply world champion in 2013 under the command of the Dane Morten Soubak.
And we have Sweden’s Pia Sundhage taking care of the women’s soccer team, although under Brazilian coaches she has won runners-up in both the Olympics and World Cups.
She promises a team to face anyone in two years, although she’s messing a little too much with the Brazilian way of playing football, something that Guardiola, Klopp or Ancelotti would never have thought of.
Or Jorge Jesus, just look at what he did at Flamengo. And also Abel Ferreira, given his work at Palmeiras.
If the Italian-Catalan-German trio seems like a summer dream due to the size of the investment, the two Lusitanians are perfectly possible in the CBF budget, as one was in the rubro-negro and the other is in the alviverde.
Anyone who can contribute to the progress of any activity should be welcomed regardless of language, provided, of course, they make themselves understood.
Guardiola, to take just one example, took a gap year to learn German in the United States and in his first interview at Bayern Munich he spoke in the language of Goethe as if it were Cervantes.
Welcome to the competent.
Runner-up
Flamengo engaged the sixth gear and started quickly to be, at least, Brazilian vice-champion.
The next three rounds of the championship will be decisive for their pretensions, because the impressive Palmeiras will face, away, Corinthians and Fluminense and, between them, at home, Flamengo itself.
As this midweek will be more exhausting for Palmeiras against Atlético Mineiro than for Flamengo against Corinthians, who knows?
disrespect
It’s amazing how no TV narrator to date has recorded the lack of education of the fans when they don’t pay attention to the National Anthem and the minute of silence in the country’s stadiums.
And, also, the lack of sensitivity of TV directors is impressive, who, at least, could cut the ambient sound.
pride
Master Tostão is rightly proud to have played with Pelé and to have been interviewed by Jô.
I didn’t play with Pelé, but I was Tostão’s driver at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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