Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Sylvinho is far from being the only one with an indecipherable brain in Brazil

Let’s start with Sylvinho, the rookie Corinthians coach, whose midfielder Renato Augusto is the best player available on his team and calls him to play as a false center forward, with his back to the goal, without being able to fully exercise his highest quality, the vision of match.

If it wasn’t enough to waste what they have of most precious, they climb the defensive midfielder Gabriel to face Chapecoense, who evidently would play under lock and key.

So, as also happened against Fortaleza deprived of five holders, among them its two most unbalanced players, Crispim and Pikachu, Sylvinho puts Gustavo Mosquito, the line breaker, in the second half, Jô too, Renato Augusto takes his place in the middle of the field and, in the throes, in the breath of Fiel in Itaquera, the goal happens.

Then, relieved to have survived another round, the coach parades platitudes such as the team having 16 starters, nobody plays better during the 90 minutes, the last third, the last pass, the last step, which may have been the penultimate one, because now there are, away from home, Atlético Mineiro and Flamengo on the next two Wednesdays (10th and 17th), although with a providential (?) Cuiabá in between, in Itaquera.

Unlike a short time ago, Corinthians now has to face the two teams with the best campaigns in the Brazilian Championship, it remains to be seen if they will have command, and on top of that, praised for the changes made in the final minutes, when they were just obvious corrections.

It must be said that Sylvinho is far from being the only one with an indecipherable brain.

Take Tite who was leaving out Vinicius Junior at his best moment at Real Madrid, a faux pas only corrected thanks to Roberto Firmino’s injury.

And it’s not from today.

In order not to go too far, going (but what is 50 years?), the incomprehensible controversy that took place before the World Cup that won Brazil the three-time championship over the impossibility of Tostão and Pelé playing together is historic, as if there were no two geniuses on the same lawn.

Even if they were identical twins, both would fit, as they finally fit wonderfully to write one of the brightest pages of Planeta Bola.

Today, keeping all proportions, (and put all proportions in it!), Abel Ferreira is reluctant to climb together Raphael Veiga and Gustavo Scarpa at Palmeiras, a true crime against football, as his namesake, Abel Braga, committed by not giving space for De Arrascaeta and Everton Ribeiro together at Flamengo, an incognito nonexistent in the equation readily solved in Portuguese by Jorge Jesus.

Julia, the daughter and granddaughter of journalists, was two years old when, at the nursery school, perplexed by the teacher’s decision, she turned to her classmates and commented: “It seems she has no brains”, an observation that made her aunt leave the class. to laugh alone in the hallway.

It is a fact that we journalists think we know more than the so-called professors in charge of football teams, and it is evidently a matter of pride, even though it is our role in this latifundium.

And all critics will be silent on the day when the goals come out without so much suffering, as the Corinthians, or duets are allowed to pack the shows without torturing the logic of the need to let art and talent flow naturally through the Brazilian fields.