The Argentine who took Fortaleza to Libertadores is another foreigner to shine
In 2019, Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus led Flamengo to the Brazilian title, and Argentinean Jorge Sampaoli took the vice-championship with Santos.
In the same year, Jesus beat Libertadores and made Flamengo play on equal terms with Liverpool in the World Cup final.
In 2020 and 2021, the Portuguese Abel Ferreira won the continental bi-championship with Palmeiras.
In this same season of 2021, another Argentine, Juan Vojvoda, managed the feat of finishing the Brazilian Championship in fourth place and giving Fortaleza its first participation in the most famous tournament in America, just behind millionaires Atlético Mineiro, Flamengo and Palmeiras, ahead of the prodigal Corinthians.
There is no way to compare the cast of the tricolor Cearense with the three that were ahead of it, nor with the alvinegro that surpassed.
Denying Vojvoda the title of coach of the year has only two explanations: the lazy and comfortable practice of granting the honor to the champion professional is one of them; the other is due to two prejudices, against northeasterners and against foreigners, in that order.
Because it’s not just about considering the results of Fortaleza, but, above all, the performance, the quality of the football presented by the team, despite the shortages and the inevitable wear and tear at the end of the marathon – not forgetting the ever more exhausting trips of the teams that live there on top of the Brazilian map.
It goes without saying that Vojvoda does not resort to extra-football methods, superstitions, or demagoguery such as t-shirts with sacred images, even though they are worn by those who have committed unspeakable violence against women without even today having apologized.
It may sound like intransigence, and it is.
Because it seems incredible to see how those who carry out campaigns denouncing harassment are able to overlook past facts, as if time had erased them, and extol the aggressor’s qualities.
He steals but does it in a new format, he raped but didn’t kill and was champion of football. Live!
​​Vojvoda did not steal, rape, kill and make Fortaleza the fourth national force in a running points championship, without having to rely on the hazards of the game that, in knockout tournaments, make champions more by accident than by worthiness.
Alongside Weverton, Pikachu, Gustavo Gómez, Junior Alonso and Guilherme Arana; Edenilson, Jair, Raphael Veiga and Nacho Fernández; Michael and Hulk, who deserved the award for best coach in the Brazilian Championship was Vojvoda.
athletic clash
This Sunday (12), Atlético de Minas and Paraná meet at Mineirão for the first game of the Brazil Cup decision, with broad alvinegro favoritism.
Galo, by the way, was close to showing that everything can be won with a cast and good planning.
Libertadores escaped it for detail, undefeated, of these ironies of football: the loss of the penalty charged by Hulk, player of the year, at the green house, in the semifinals of Libertadores against Palmeiras.
It is very unlikely that the Copa do Brasil will play a similar trick.
deny in german
Joshua Kimmich is a lateral gentleman and defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich who refused to be vaccinated, caught Covid and is out of football until next year, because his lungs are seriously compromised.
Kimmich is just an idiot like so many other deniers around the world and across Brazil.
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