Opinion – Tostão: Flamengo’s passes and Corinthians pragmatism would result in a great team

Freud studied individual and group psychology and showed that the human being, when he is in a crowd, loses individual conscience, ethics, reason and morals and usually makes serious mistakes, as if they were not made by him, but by the group. Freud did not know the violence and barbarism of Brazilian society and football, inside and outside the stadiums.

The violence over the weekend, with great risks for fans, adults and children, who just wanted to cheer (the majority), is a national shame, precisely at a time when stadiums are full, there are large peaceful parties, and Brazilian teams try to play good, modern, efficient and exciting football. I hope that today, at Maracanã, in the final of the Copa do Brasil, we will have a great match, without violence.

Flamengo, for playing in Rio de Janeiro, for having better players and for the poor performances and results of Corinthians away from home, has more chances of winning the title. Corinthians should try to repeat the behavior of the first game, when they scored very well and had chances of winning the match. Corinthians, in Itaquera, lacked more daring to try to win and gain an advantage today.

Vítor Pereira does a good job, but since his arrival at the club, he has not resolved the dilemma Róger Guedes, if it forces him to also defend on the left, which the player does not like to do, if he selects him freer and closer to the center forward or put it on reserve. Flamengo, on the other hand, achieved what seemed difficult, scoring very well, even without having players on the sides who attack and who defend, a position present in almost all teams in the world.

The association of Flamengo’s exchange of passes with the tactical and disciplined pragmatism of Corinthians would result in a great team, intense and modern, as the best teams in the world play.

After a long delay in the way of playing in relation to the main European teams, there is a progressive transformation of Brazilian football, which started after 7-1 and continued with the arrival of good foreign coaches. Brazilian coaches, younger and older, followed the same path, evolved and changed the way their teams played.

The collective change in European football started after the 2002 World Cup. Before the World Cup final, German journalists, who were in the press center, told me that the German team was the worst in a long time. This does not diminish the individual and collective merits, for the time, of the Brazilian team, but it is an observation of the backwardness of football compared to today.

From there, there were big changes, in Germany and around the world, especially at Barcelona, ​​under the command of Guardiola, who continued with the Spanish national team, world champions in 2010 and two-time European champions in 2008 and 2012. The new posture has spread around the world, and today it is common in football to see pressure marking since the goalkeeper’s release of the ball, the compaction between sectors, the exchange of passes and triangulations, the evolution in the passes of goalkeepers and defenders and so many other details that enriched the quality of the game. This collective strength helped in the emergence of more stars, such as Benzema, rightly elected the best player in the world of the year.

Despite the World Cup being held in Qatar, a country accused of violating human rights, we should have a great World Cup, very rich in players and collective play.