Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Who’s afraid of the yellow shirt?

Will the rare reader and the rare reader cheer for the Brazilian team in Qatar?

Better: do you have the courage to wear the yellow jersey of the CBF?

To cheer for the World Cup, of course, not to block roads or camp outside barracks, because then it’s not a matter of courage, but of mental insanity.

In 1970, during the dictatorship, the doubt was limited to the Shakespearean question between twisting or not.

Philosophical angst lasted only until Rivellino tied the opening game against Czechoslovakia. From right to left, the explosion brought everyone together. It just didn’t gather more people because the use of all of them was not yet in fashion.

Grant the dictatorship permission even to steal our most intimate possessions, steal our affections? Now, wasn’t the fear of being arrested, tortured or killed enough?

From 2013 onwards, the yellow jersey of the national team replaced the controversy of more than half a century ago and became a symbol of the extreme right. Here, oh!

Our PVC has dealt with the subject very well, and it is necessary to put an end to the confusion of those who let the haters take what belongs to the country, not to them, which, remember, they lost last October 30th.

Nothing against wearing the blue shirt, but demonizing the canary is a blunder, it’s acknowledging defeat for the defeated.

It is difficult to predict what will happen when the selection enters the field, a curiosity that newspapers around the world also share, so many are the interviews requested to address the topic.

Will families that split around candidates in the second round get back together to watch the games? In bars and on the streets, what will it be like? Will strangers hug each other to celebrate goals, if goals exist?

You can bet that integration between strangers will be easier than between relatives, because the wounds are very recent.

Dilma Rousseff says that, imprisoned in Tiradentes prison, in the so-called Torre das Maidens, she celebrated and a lot the conquest of the third championship of Pelé and company, next to her companions in a small TV set, with steel wool on the antenna, because the thickness of the walls interfered with the quality of the transmission.

If after being brutally tortured she was able to overcome the pain and be happy with the victory of a team expropriated by the generals on duty, why not ignore the current usurpers?

Let’s make it clear: whoever sings the national anthem for a tire, or with Nazi gestures, is a patriot of arak, détraqué.

That you refuse the shirt with the CBF badge is understandable, because nothing more surreal than denouncing corruption with the symbol demoralized by the trio Teixeira$Marin$Nero, the three banned from football, so many were their misdeeds as presidents of the entity.

Confuse her, however, with the future ex-president who has made us so unhappy in the last four years, never.

Here, therefore, is the invitation to start putting an end to the demonization of the yellow shirt.

Who knows if the Cup, ends as it ends, will not be the first step towards the necessary union of this Brazil so attacked in recent times?

If the sixth championship comes, then it will be difficult to hold on.

Although, very much between us, and please don’t spread the word, the absolutely essential Brazilian victory has already happened and nobody rips it apart.

As much as there are those who look for egg hair, they don’t find it, but they think they can find it. Pathetic.