Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Sylvinho and the step bigger than his leg

After the fiasco in the 1990 World Cup, in Italy, the CBF bet on the elegant Paulo Roberto Falcão as the new coach of the selection, a position that the King of Rome, one of the best midfielders in the history of football, had never occupied. It didn’t work out, unfortunately.

Not satisfied with yet another of his many mistakes before being banned from football for corruption, Ricardo Teixeira invented the crude Dunga as a coach — the captain of the fourth championship, in 1994, in the United States, when he lifted the cup cursing the photographers.

Dunga also found the donkeys in the water.

It is very difficult for any professional to start at the top and succeed, although there are success stories.
The most common is to go wrong.

Rogério Ceni broke his face in São Paulo and went to Fortaleza.

Sylvinho did not last at Corinthians, although for most of Fiel he lasted too long.

José Trajano always says that one of the most delicate issues in football is knowing when to fire a coach.

Almost all critics agree that without time to work, there is no one who works on any team.

Are three unsatisfactory games at Paulistinha, at the beginning of the season, a reason to send Sylvinho away?

Of course not.

And six months of bad football in the last Brazilian Championship are?

Of course I do.

Would the Corinthian squad be inferior to that of Fortaleza that ended up ahead of São Paulo?

Hence, it can be said that those most responsible for Sylvinho’s fall, after the Santos turn in Itaquera, are the white-and-white top hats, who kept him in his post after the end of 2021.

With a team full of stars, the sand of Parque São Jorge is too much for Sylvinho’s truck.
That produced almost nothing inside the field and communicated very poorly outside of it.

With the support of the president of the club, it is repeated, both boasting of the direct vacancy in Libertadores, nowadays as difficult as crossing Avenida Brasil, without tripping, in the crosswalk and with a green light for pedestrians.

Corinthians stumbled and not a few times.

Hence, with almost 30,000 fans screaming in the stadium with threats and curses, Duilio Monteiro Alves squirted gecko tears and snuggled up.

The rare reader and the rare reader forgive, but it is necessary to insist: Brazilian football is a grinder of coaches because our clubs are commanded by incompetent people, influenced by advisors and terrified by fans.

Corinthians played better than Santos, they won, they almost didn’t expand and, then, the promising defender João Victor failed twice for the boy from Vila Marcos Leonardo to turn around.

Sylvinho’s fault?

Honestly, no.

And the team’s no play pattern since last May? And the average of goals less than one per game? His fault?

Frankly, yes.

Sylvinho had the support of the locker room, but the support lacked on the pitch.

If it is true that the role of the coach is not as important as is claimed, why have capable players like Renato Augusto, especially Paulinho, Willian and Giuliano, proved incapable of holding him back?

Or is Sylvinho naive enough to have trusted the top hat’s word?

In time: the club that preaches “respect for the mines” should exclude Cuca as a possibility. And those who claim to be proud of Corinthian Democracy cannot even think about Renato Gaúcho.