The Brazilian reaches the 23rd round with the fourth duel between the two best in the classification. On the fifth round, Corinthians led and beat Bragantino, in second place. Palmeiras and Atlético-MG tied when they occupied the first two positions, and the Palmeiras won the Corinthians, in Itaquera.
At the end of 22 rounds, no Brazilian coach occupied the lead. Dorival Júnior is vice-leader, after Maurício Barbieri, from Bragantino, and Felipão, from Athletico.
The classic Palmeiras x Flamengo, between Abel Ferreira against Dorival, takes place in the most tense week since the beginning of the Portuguese success here.
At Palmeiras, it is understood that Abel Ferreira did not lack respect. He was asked about Cuca having said bolt – in fact, the question to the Atlético coach used this premise. In the answer, Abel referred to Cuca’s competence and stated that Atlético had many people outside the Palmeiras defensive block. “That, for us, was easier to control.”
Not a few have heard this phrase and found it unethical. Not just coaches. Journalists, too.
It seems fairer to say that Abel lacked sportsmanship by saying that São Paulo won the Copa do Brasil duel by luck. That day, Rogério Ceni gave the right and elegant answer: “It’s the second time I’ve been lucky against Abel”. He was referring to the Supercopa, for Flamengo.
Argument will always win over aggression.
Mano Menezes was ironic and intelligent when he said that we took a class from Abel Ferreira. Jorginho, from Atlético-GO, was aggressive. “It’s dirty to say that he saw more than Cuca.”
That wasn’t exactly the context.
The greatest achievement of a Brazilian coach this season is that of Dorival Júnior. He recovered from a serious illness, returned to work for Ceará, left the club in 12th place, two positions above Flamengo, which helped him jump from 14th to second place.
The discussion of nationalities only portrays our current underdevelopment. Portugal had 55% of champion coaches coming from abroad until 2006, the year in which the Dutchman Co Adriaanse won the League, for Porto.
Since then, in 16 consecutive seasons, only Portuguese have won: Jesualdo Ferreira, Jorge Jesus, André Villas-Boas, Vítor Pereira, Rui Vitória, Bruno Lage, Sérgio Conceição and Rubem Amorim. No major league in Europe has so much success with native coaches in this period. Italian Carlo Ancelotti won in England, Germany, France and Spain, Spaniard Guardiola won the German and English Championship, Portuguese José Mourinho triumphed in Italy, Spain and England, not to mention Jürgen Klopp.
Dorival Júnior doesn’t scream. It works. This goes for Felipão, in his eighth Libertadores and sixth semifinal, the only Brazilian among the candidates for the continental tournament. Alexander Medina, Uruguayan, runs an Argentine team and is also fighting for the South American trophy.
Medina failed at Inter and is successful in Argentina, because here the problem is not nationality, but the fact that managers make decisions under pressure from fans and advisers.
The list of foreigners guillotined in Brazil only grows. In 18 months, Flamengo paid R$ 22 million in severance pay to fire a Spaniard, Domènec Torrent, a Brazilian, Rogério Ceni, and a Portuguese, Paulo Sousa – Renato Gaúcho fell, but had no compensation provided for in the contract.
“The Scream”, the only successful one, is the painting by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. In Brazil, what will define the market are competence and strategy.
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