Opinion – Juca Kfouri: With so much explanation to give to society, Cuca created a new maxim

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About the episode he participated in and condemned, in Switzerland, involving a 13-year-old girl, Cuca remains silent without even having the courage to apologize.

He preferred to create a new cliché for football, like others already famous in this Brazil of self-deception: “With the game 11 against 11, our opportunity was greater to win than with 11 against ten”.

For over an hour, Palmeiras was one player short, and for 15 minutes with two, but even so, Atlético Mineiro failed to score a goal to stay in the Libertadores.

Hence the coach’s phrase, dissatisfied with the alviverde rebarca, when trying to escape the obvious — the need for the rival to close down and the inability of his team, nervous, to pierce the alviverde defense.

Now, it is known that it is easier to destroy than to build, although there are several ways of, by varying the way of attacking, with constant turns from one side of the field to the other, to explore the spaces on the sides of the lawn, reaching the goal of those who have player, or players, unless.

Galo proved incapable of exploiting the advantage, and Cuca, instead of recognizing the deficiency, preferred to criticize Abel Ferreira, who, on the same night, when he learned of the opponent’s complaint, taught him how to do it.

Of course, if Hulk had scored the missed goal in stoppage time, everything would have been different and the controversy wouldn’t even have arisen.

It was born and perhaps will become a classic, like other maxims such as “2-0 is a very dangerous score” or “the goal came at the right time”, both with equally rational explanations, although the first one is in fact dangerous for those who are losing and the second allows asking if there is a wrong time to score goals.

Basically, and in short, they are all phrases to distract and allow the authors to be taken on the absurd side, if the person who interprets them lacks goodwill.

Among so many others, “chasing losses” is just one more, because, as a rule, one runs in search of profit.

Life is hard. “Técnico lives on results”, and the exchange of provocations between Abel and Cuca is further proof of this, as one won and scored, and the other lost and kicked.

It’s not too bad that everything was restricted to statements, without coming to blows as was almost seen, on the edge of the lawn, between the German Thomas Tuchel and the Italian Antonio Conte, during and after the English derby between Chelsea and Tottenham.

After the clash, and the due red cards for the scene that bordered on the ridiculous, Tuchel justified it by saying that the two are very “sanguine”.

Also hot-headed Vítor Pereira made reference to his bank account and took what he deserved.

The Portuguese from Corinthians had the merit of apologizing, something that to this day Mr. Alexi Stival didn’t—not out of an unfortunate statement, but out of an unspeakable act.

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