The joke that “Palmeiras doesn’t have a Cup and doesn’t have a World Cup” started to fall this Tuesday (25), at Allianz Parque. With football of undeniable superiority, the team thrashed Santos 4-0 and won the first Copa São Paulo title in its history.
In February, the professional squad will compete in the Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the ultimate dream of Alviverde fans. The final is scheduled for the 12th.
The list of entries has not yet been released, but there is a possibility that Endrick, 15, the best player in this year’s Copinha, will be registered. He won’t play, as Abel Ferreira has already made clear, but he can travel to gain experience. For the coach, it would be like the kid taking a Disney vacation.
The fun for the striker began this Tuesday, when he paved the way for the Copinha title with a goal after just six minutes. A killer finish, first-rate, well positioned in the area. It was the sixth scored by him in the tournament.
The youngster did not start every match and was out for a week, in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. When the team’s lineup was announced over the stadium’s sound system, the name of shirt 9 was deliberately left for last and caused the biggest frisson in the audience among all the applauded players.
Endrick has already become coveted by European clubs. Giovani, 17, is in the plans of Manchester City (ING), a team that already did business with Palmeiras in the purchase of Gabriel Jesus, in 2017.
In the final, Palmeiras needed only 15 minutes to decide. At a breakneck pace, he hit the net three times (Giovani and Gabriel Silva also scored), and Santos couldn’t even write down the truck’s license plate. Gabriel Silva would leave his mark again at the beginning of the second half.
The title is the final crowning of the long-term work done by the Palestra Italia club. He is the current five-time champion of São Paulo under-20. He won the 2018 Brazilian and the 2019 Copa do Brasil. In the under-17, he won the state (2018), the Copa do Brasil (2017 and 2019) and the World Cup (2018 and 2019).
The rout over Santos is the most elastic score in the history of the Copa São Paulo finals, alongside the one obtained by Portuguesa over Grêmio in 1991.
Santos had their best campaign since 2014, when they defeated Corinthians in the final. Notwithstanding the hard defeat in the derby, reaching the last game of this year was considered a good result for the club because the recent performance of the basic categories left something to be desired. In recent seasons, the club has experienced a scrapping process in the amateur department.
The football executive of the association, Edu Dracena, in an interview with the program “Esporte por Esporte”, on Santa Cecília TV, a regional broadcaster on the coast, acknowledged that Santos nowadays does not offer a physical structure to demand high performance from the base athletes. . According to him, the board has tried to change that.
As a sports competition, the match ended in the last minute of the first half, when Santos defender Derick was sent off. Palmeiras was already much superior to the rival and did not keep the same pace after the break. I could have scored more goals, even so.
The rout and the title were rewarded to the 20,814 fans who went to Allianz on the capital’s anniversary holiday. With tickets sold out, scalpers negotiated tickets on the streets around the stadium for up to R$200.
Santos complained about the choice of arena for the final. He considered that Palmeiras had the advantage by playing at home. The Copa São Paulo is traditionally decided at Pacaembu, which is undergoing renovations. The São Paulo Football Federation considered it unfeasible to hold the match at Canindé and could not make the match at Morumbi feasible.
Until this Tuesday’s victory, the best results of the alviverde team in Copinha had been the vices in 1970 and 2003. Times when the joke that Palmeiras didn’t have Copinha had not even been created.
Did not have. Now it has.
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