Opinion – Sandro Macedo: Hero of Libertadores, Deyverson is the best actor in America

The movie world has lost several talents to this football guy over the years.

Think of Maradona. Genius aside, he was practically a son of Aeschylus on the field because of the way he gestured with judges, always accusing faults and alleged errors – Aeschylus is considered the father of Greek tragedy. Not to mention the silly little hand used subtly to outwit an entire stadium.

And Rivaldo, in the 2002 World Cup? What man, after a heavy blow to the body, put his hands to his face as if he had been stoned in the forehead? The judge, a spectator in the front row, almost cried with the performance and had no choice but to expel the Turkish villain.

Until another day, our best actor was also our main player in the world, Neymar, known in some circles as “the boy Ney”. For starters, you have to be an excellent actor to be called a boy at 29 years old. It’s practically Tom Cruise doing “Mission: Impossible”… Never-ending.

Our Ney would be a great actor. It can (and does) drama almost every week. Make special effects-worthy moves whenever you want, using just one ball. He can play musicals too: have you seen how many pirouettes on the ground he can do when knocked down? Against Mexico, at the 2018 World Cup, some say they set a new world record for turns on grass.

It can also do action/police, with its repeated fights on the field against friends in different shirts. And if you need a head start on “Grey’s Anatomy”, “House”, “Medical Duty” or “The Good Doctor”, you can count on Ney, always willing to face a ward – how it hurts. By the way, here’s a tip for the powerful of streaming, how about a documentary series titled “NeyMédico”?

Boy Ney only has one problem as an actor. It wasn’t cut out to be a supporting cast. He always likes to be the main star of the company. He even left Spain because of it.

But now we have Deyverson. Legend has it that every good comedy actor would make a great dramatic actor, and the opposite is not true. Deyverson, who has done a lot of slapstick scenes, confirms the rule among player-actors. There is no player-actor in the world with the improvisation timing of the Palmeirense striker.

In Montevideo, in just half an hour of gameplay (a series episode), Deyverson was Shakespearean.

As soon as he steals the ball from Andreas (what a thief, huh), he swings his body to outwit the goalkeeper and score the title goal. He runs away with wide eyes, in an expression of suspense, almost as if he himself doesn’t believe in what he’s done. Still in the same scene, he bursts into tears, moved. And he had a cool head to make a little heart with his hand for the crowd, how romantic.

But nothing, nothing, nothing beats his performance in stoppage time, when he smiles at the referee and, after a light tap on his back, collapses onto the lawn as if he’s been hit by Thor’s hammer – yes, he didn’t realize it was the referee himself. who “touched” him. The bid was so special that not even the poor argentinian referee Néstor Pitana, used to milongueiros, knew what to do. A little more and he gave himself a yellow card for the foul.

May the other player-actors forgive me, may Ricardo Darín forgive me, but Deyverson is the best actor in America.