Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Running points can be a far cry, but simple

The 19th Brazilian Championship in the running points system comes to an end this Thursday (9).
Respectable heads and voices continue to challenge the formula, as they miss the emotion that surrounds the grand final.

Pernambucan jurist José Paulo Cavalcanti Filho, the youngest immortal at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, author of the portentous work “Fernando Pessoa: An almost autobiography”, is among the critics and compares the last round, with the irreverence that characterizes it, to “a boom”.

And he asks: “In the United States, the 20 highest-rated shows in history were 20 Super Bowls. Here, who is the TV audience for Atlético’s last game?”

Another brilliant immortal, Luis Fernando Verissimo, is not satisfied with the relegation of clubs with big fans, although he must be intimately rooting (or not) for the fall of Grêmio, colorado that it is.

Both were influenced by the American sports industry wizards, with their franchises, no relegations and playoffs.

These are more than understandable arguments and it is difficult to refute them.

Those who defend the need for the final game, the epic, the unforgettable, a fan of the knockout, are not satisfied with the knockout of the Copa do Brasil, the Libertadores and the Club World Cup.

Even though in all the countries of the First World of football there are national championships in consecutive points.

Is that why football, American soccer, is the most popular sport on the planet, even though it’s not in Uncle Sam’s country?

Ask the Galo fan if it wasn’t epic, unforgettable, the game that earned him the second title, in the penultimate round and in distant Bahia for those who live in Minas Gerais.

Even more for the athlete who lived in the 1977 final, at Mineirão, against São Paulo, a 0-0 draw, São Paulo’s victory on penalties, with ten points less than the undefeated Minas Gerais team, because in a knockout.

“The sport was not invented to do justice, but to thrill”, argues, another respectable consideration.

Fans of straight points, we replied: “The best is justice with emotion and, essential, with the guarantee of activity to the clubs throughout the season, an aspect relegated by the knockout”.

The 38th round of the Brazilian Championship will not define the champion, but it is uncertain whether the winner’s joy is greater as a result of the definitive game or if distributed homeopathically, at each step, like the preliminaries that precede orgasm.

At the end of this night, two fans will cry falls for Serie B, maybe even an Immortal, not from ABL, but from FGF.

Others will celebrate openings in Libertadores or, at least, staying in Serie A, which is not little.
Only the game between Sport and Athletico won’t be worth anything for the two teams.

The problem of Brazilian football is not in the formula of its main championship, but in the unfair division of resources among the participants, which causes the constant relegation of smaller clubs, something that only the League could solve, then yes, if there were prevailing understanding around here. in the American leagues, that they are all in the same boat.

Between the dear immortals and the Immortal, may they all go on.

Because the running stitches can be a far cry, but simple: scented by the need for activity throughout the season and, above all, by the aroma of the champion always being the best.