Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Sheriffs are still accurate

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In the more distant past, it was common for the country’s biggest clubs to have central defenders who were treated as sheriffs of the penalty area, often with nicknames in the augmentative to command respect and arouse fear from the attackers.

Ditão, at Corinthians, Luisão Pereira, at Palmeiras, are two good examples.

There were others, not necessarily in the augmentative, like Moisés, in Vasco, Rondinelli, in Flamengo, and so on.

Nowadays the best example is not even Brazilian, the Paraguayan Gustavo Gómez, from Palmeiras.

Calling him Gustavão would not be an exaggeration, but as it became fashionable for players to have two names, it remains the same, although, in fact, he has four: Gustavo Raúl Gómez Portillo, 29 years old, 1.85 m, tall, strong, good at ball and scorer.

It’s not necessary to be mean to show authority within the area. Help, help, no doubt.

Democracies can also, and even must, give up tough bosses, who resolve divisions by force, not necessarily with soles.

As long as the opponent also plays fair and respects the rules of the game, go beyond the mere speech of acting on the four lines of the field.

Hence the emergence of a new sheriff in Brazil, also with two names, Alexandre de Moraes, nicknamed Xandão by a criminal and maddened adversary, who plays on the extreme right, called Roberto Jefferson.

The nickname backfired on its author, because Xandão began to act heavily in defense of the rules, in addition to the 17, those of the Federal Constitution.

It should be said that Alexandre de Moraes, a Corinthians fan at heart, called a scoundrel by Jair Bolsonaro on September 7, makes a sad contribution to São Paulo football, by decreeing, in 2016, when he was Secretary of Security, the measure of the single crowd. in the classics in São Paulo, a typical act of someone who, unable to find a solution, escalates to pure and simple prohibition.

Undeniable, however, and incomparably more important than the damage caused to football, are Xandão’s measures in defense of our democracy.

No matter how many balls they try to throw on his back, Xandão has hit them firmly, without appealing, without making fouls, preventing them from reaching the goal.

And look at that in the last confrontation there was a powerful and millionaire team made up of the following strikers: José Koury, owner of the Barra World mall; Marco Aurélio Raymundo (Morongo), owner of Mormaii; Afrânio Barreira, owner of Coco Bambu; André Tissot, from Sierra Móveis; Luciano Hang, from Havana; José Isaac Peres, from the Multiplan shopping network; Ivan Wrobel, from Construtora W3; and Meyer Nigri, from Tecnisa. Complete the team with 01, 02 and 03 under the sociopath’s command.

Xandão became a vigorous defender in defense of what is most precious to us, the Democratic State of Law, against some obscure voices, and others not so much, in the media including, insidious people who, with poorly designed dribbles, seek to undermine it.

They are the current followers of businessmen such as Henning Albert Boilesen, from Grupo Ultra, who supported the 1964 coup and financed the repression, torture and death of opponents, or admirers of journalist Cláudio Marques.

People who will go down in the History of Brazil as villains, covered in blood and whose descendants will be ashamed to sign their surname so they don’t have to answer whether they are relatives of so-and-so or so-and-so.

Xandão on them!

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