Opinion – Walter Casagrande Jr.: Tite repeats mistakes, and selection without focus is eliminated again

This text about the Brazilian team will be more critical.

Two Cups in a row with Tite in charge and both with average to weak performance.

Just like in 2018, we didn’t have a game, but players on the field. Again, when we face a medium or large European team, we “dance”.

We only showed strength and imposition against the weak South Korea, and the boasters, together with Neymar’s fans, have already turned the selection into a “phenomenon”.

There was a player who bothered to rehearse ten little dances, but he didn’t score a goal and did poorly in the Cup. And players who, on their day off, went at Ronaldo’s invitation to eat the famous gold-plated meat.

Or former players coming together to attack me, along with likes from the number 10, in the middle of the World Cup.

Where was the focus of this girl?

They laughed at me while I was just doing my job in a World Cup, which is to give an opinion.

They had bruises that hindered their work, it’s true. But didn’t they have 26 players called up?

Wasn’t it a very qualified cast?

Tite allowed himself the luxury of bringing here Daniel Alves, aged 39, to beat the record for the oldest player to wear the national team shirt and captain’s sash in a World Cup. Besides, of course, playing the tambourine and imitating the chef throwing gold at the meat. He was incredibly useless for the Brazilian team.

On the other hand, Pepe was the oldest player to score a goal in the Cup for Portugal, also aged 39. How much difference!

They dyed their hair, but the ball was missing.

Both the five-time champions and the veterans of this selection (Daniel Alves, Thiago Silva and Neymar) do not have the slightest identification with the Brazilian people. They are from another social class.

While in Brazil the 35 million starving people turned to cheer the national team, they scowled at the camera after scoring goals.

Face for the Brazilian people, because they were the ones watching the World Cup on TV.

These guys weren’t able to play for the Brazilian people. Just for them.

While the real fan suffered and starved, the number 10 offered a goal and a celebration to a fascist.

He scored the goal, and maybe for the first time in his life he felt ashamed, because he didn’t celebrate the way he wanted to.

I’m sad and, at the same time, relieved because I see a lot of kids who are good with the ball. If the next coach is a little smart, he will remove Neymar from this new generation so as not to spoil it.

The year 2023 will start with a truly democratic government and perhaps with a new coach for the Brazilian national team. I hope that everything, but everything, starts to change.

We’ll make a new team, we’ll have new idols, but these guys from five times will certainly be back in 2026 in the same FIFA box, winning to stay there playing the role of parrots for pirates of directors.

This Cup unmasked a lot of people — I don’t need to mention names because everyone followed the last few days.

I want to end with an excerpt from a beautiful song by my late friend Gonzaguinha:

“I believe in the girls
That goes ahead and holds the rocket
I put faith in the faith of the young people
Who doesn’t run away from the beast and face the lion “.

And let’s fight.