For those who think that only in politics we are living in a parallel reality, there is, as usual, football to show once again that this is not the case.
We have the crazy flat earthers and the vaccine and global warming deniers.
Those who go to the front of the barracks and celebrate the death of the newly elected President of the Republic, salute the flag at half pole in mourning for the death of Edson Arantes do Nascimento as a sign of military intervention, salute the tire etc and such.
Less serious, but no less true, Brazilian football also refuses to look at the ball and see that it is round. It’s for everyone. Africans, Arabs, Asians, North Americans, everyone, not just Europeans and South Americans.
The fourth Brazilian club eliminated in the semifinals of the Club World Cup demonstrates this.
The barrier of the quarterfinals in World Cups between selections for Amarelinha as well.
Croatia would be a piece of cake, and it was — but for Argentina.
Al Hilal would not be a match and Flamengo danced. Blaming arbitration borders on the ridiculous, like saying that Lula was convicted in three instances and ignoring that, in all three, based on the falsehoods of a suspected judge.
More than half of the Brazilian electorate who voted in October came to their senses and sent the genocidal sociopath to Florida, although a frightening amount still insisted on the torturer fan.
There are few who experience the world of football aware that excuses are dead out of date and the need to change the outdated management model of the last century.
It’s the League that doesn’t care because the cards only care about their own navels and are incapable of sitting at the table without cursing the mother of the next.
The SAF that is still in its infancy because it means the shift in power in search of efficiency.
Inertia is the ingredient for the survival of a bunch of bankrupts in the five-time champion country, which lives off its glorious history to repeat itself as a farce.
Whoa! Flamengo is not bankrupt, the rare reader will exclaim. And truth.
He is not bankrupt, but he lives with his back to the reality produced by the little internal competition that disables him in the face of external competition.
Al Hilal, the Saudi “Princes’ Club”, gave him the lesson that the Mexican Tigres, owned by Cemex, one of the largest construction companies in the world, had given to the also rehabilitated Palmeiras, two years ago.
Because two swallows don’t make a summer…
The loss of competitiveness in Brazilian football has been going on for a long time, with spasms such as the one in 2002, with the national team’s fifth championship, and the one in 2012, with the world title won by Corinthians, both the last in our football. There goes more than 20 and ten years —five World Cups, 11 Club World Cups.
Even so, we still find among top hats and “experts” those who say that the succession of defeats is mere accidents along the way —and disdain the African Olympic champions, the Asians in frank progress.
It would be better to pay attention to the development of football in Oceania.
There is always the option of shutting ourselves down in our mediocre little world and contenting ourselves with local or regional conquests, with being the head of an ant and the tail of an elephant.
If that is the choice, let us at least abandon pride and start living happily like hyenas.
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