Opinion – Juca Kfouri: And there are people from Palmeiras who are afraid

The human being is superstitious and doesn’t celebrate anything before because he thinks it’s bad luck.

What is palmeirense still afraid to see the title of the Brazilian Championship slip away is greatness.

Even Coritiba, Thursday night’s visitor (6) at the green house, is treated as if they were Pep Guardiola and Haaland’s Manchester City.

Beliefs and fears must be respected, but, among us, the only Alviverde fan who has reason to be more than worried, even terrified, is the infamous sociopath who lives in Palácio da Alvorada. He is about to be evicted from there, perhaps moving to the Papuda penitentiary complex, also in the Federal District, so many are his crimes and those of his supporters, such as the rapist Robinho or politicians of the worst kind and communicators who are not worth the that eat.

Well, look at the rare reader and the rare reader how we live in an amazing country.

Former and future president Lula cast more than 6 million votes over his opponent in the first round of the presidential election, something that had never happened before in this country: the defeat of the occupant of the chair in the Planalto Palace.

Even so, there are those who are worried about an unprecedented comeback in the second round and argue, logically but mistakenly, that just as the Democrats’ victory against the incumbent fascistoid was new, another rarity could happen on October 30th. Can not.

As much as new lies are spread by antisocial networks, such as Marcola’s vote or the closing of churches, not only is the difference huge, but the support of those who came in third and fourth places has the power that that of the current demoralized governor of São Paulo. Paul does not.

By the way, what a guy. Even those he wanted to support initially refused to receive him, he preferred to stay away from yet another PSDB gravedigger, in the wake of Aécio Neves and João Doria.

It is true that the game of football is much cleaner and more loyal than the game of politics.

They are 11 against 11, as a rule, professionals who go to the field to seek victory ethically, despite the bad, but not malicious, refereeing.

Political disputes, on the other hand, always have those who are ignorant of any principles, especially when they are coreligionists of necropolitics, not even there for 700,000 deaths or for harassers of all kinds, money-makers with their backs to the hunger of the excluded.

Back to the Palmeiras campaign, see: the team ended the first round with a four-point advantage over the second-placed team and is now ten points ahead.

Even with a stumble here or there, the advantage is such that the only question is knowing when he will be champion.

Therein lies the biggest difference between the campaigns of Palmeiras and Lula, because that of the northeast has a fixed date for victory, still in this month of the Brazilian spring.

backstage of the penta

Netflix’s new football documentary deals with the Brazilian team’s fifth world championship, with scenes also filmed by former right-back Juliano Belletti, one of the champions in the Asian epic.

Filled with great interviews with Ronaldos, Cafu, Belletti and Roberto Carlos, as well as the main players who faced the selection on the pitch in Japan and South Korea, the film covers the four years that began with the defeat to France in 1998 and worth it.