Opinion – Juca Kfouri: The voter at the time of the penalty

Attention, this column opens with a film and book review spoiler improperly copied from Google: “‘The Goalkeeper’s Fear in Front of the Penalty’, from 1972, is the first feature film by the German Wim Wenders. Based on the homonymous novel by Peter Handke, tells the story of goalkeeper Joseph Bloch, who, after missing a penalty during a game in Vienna, is substituted. Without cuts, the unfolding follows: we see the goalkeeper walk away from the field, wander around the city, enter a cinema , unable to complete a phone call and go back only to a cheap hotel where he is staying. The next day, further wanderings, he makes a date with the girl at the cinema box office and, for no apparent reason, kills her during the night. life, as if it were nothing, waiting for the police to approach”.

We, Brazilians, are now at the penalty spot, this Sunday, October 2, the most important day of our lives, ready to choose which corner we will kick the ball that will change the country’s course on the route of civilization or the will keep on the path of barbarism.

Kicking in the middle will facilitate the defense that will lead to the second round, always subject to unpredictable turns, stimulated by attempts to spoil the championship.

On the right, we have the chaos of those who are willing to challenge the VAR, to gloat over the 17 rules or the Constitution, without respect for the courts.

On the left, we find the route of those who have already won four championships since 2002 and ended up being expelled from the field by a robber judge, without having committed serious faults that deserved the red card.

Winning in the first round, and settling the game, is part of the rule if the difference meets the wish of the majority.

Going for the second doesn’t mean any catastrophe, it’s even the most common, and some say that winning both rounds makes the victory even tastier, in addition to conferring undisputed authority to the winner.

It would be true if the dispute involved two clean teams, which does not happen at the moment in Brazil.

There are so many low blows from the armed team that it is best to defeat it immediately, without giving chance to chance.

There is no reasonable reason to feel the fear of the goalkeeper at the time of the penalty, because those who are looking for the five-time championship have already demonstrated to exhaustion that they know how to win to make Brazil take off again, as in the beginning of this 21st century, when distributing the bread and growing, awakening the sleeping giant — today rotten and frightened, a victim of necropolitics that claimed nearly 700,000 lives, the forest, the rivers, and returned it to the hunger map, in addition to threatening the Democratic State of Law.

How exciting it will be to be able to criticize a democratic government again for mistakes, not crimes.

On December 18, a Sunday, in Lusail, Qatar, the 22nd Football World Cup will be decided.

It will be difficult, but not improbable, for Brazil to be present in the final, although the importance of Sundays in October and December is incomparable.

Especially for those who voted for the first time for president only in 1989, almost at the age of 40 – and had to fight a lot, even exposing their life, to exercise the right to choose their destiny.

The long-awaited time to change the game, to turn around, arrived in the Brazilian spring.

Without the fear of the goalkeeper at the time of the penalty, without fear of the fascistoids, without fear of being happy.