Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Ser vice is the best; we need to get used to

Since 2013, Brazilian teams that have managed to reach the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, and some have not even made it, have returned home with the silver medal and without the trophy.

Let’s get used to it!

With Palmeiras it was no different, and the practice of self-deception cannot deceive us.

Palmeiras did everything they could, prepared very well, went over Al Ahly, the third place, with the ease that Chelsea did not have against Al Hilal, the fourth and thrashed by the Egyptians 4-0, but stopped playing to just defend against the Londoners.

Chelsea’s 2-1 victory, only in extra time, is a bit of a lie if we take into account the penalty that Thiago Silva gave his countrymen as a gift and the insistence on defending and chasing a stray ball in direct connection.

It is also true that the penalty that ended the alviverde dream was one of those absurdities, because Luan would have to cut his arm to avoid it in Azpilicueta’s point-blank kick.

The fact is that we are living around the mutt complex when we look at European rivals.
Just look at those who came from the English bank and those who came from the Brazilian in the decision. The difference is abysmal.

And either the SAF works here or we will continue like this, mere exporters of workmanship.

cheer for the rival

We journalists like to travel through ideas that are out of touch with reality, such as saying that Club X is Brazil in this or that. It is not and never has been, an exception made in certain hearts of those who are in the press, however fan they may be.

For example: it was an unforgettable joy to make the special edition of “Placar” when Flamengo won the title in 1981, dancing over Liverpool.

Or when Grêmio won, two years later, the Germans of Hamburg, and the magazine printed on the cover the famous phrase of the Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to travel through space: “The Earth is Blue”.

Journalists are also rooting for the news.

And what else would be news? Will Palmeiras win the unprecedented title or go without the World Cup?

Furthermore, if the Alviverde conquest of the famous Rio Cup in 1951 served to rescue the self-esteem of Brazilian football after the trauma of Maracanazo, to have a world champion club again, a decade after the last victory, and in a World Cup year of the World, would be a great sign.

In the face of all this and the decision in Abu Dhabi, all that remains is to say with Fernando Pessoa: “The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely that he even pretends that the pain he really feels is pain. And those who read what he writes, in The pain he deals with feels good, not the two he had, but only the one they don’t have. And so in the wheel gutters it turns, entertaining reason, that rope train called the heart”.

female decision

So behold, the Corinthian and Grêmio Musketeers will play the final of the Supercopa do Brasil this Sunday (13), in Itaquera, at 10:30 am.

Without any prejudice against certain girls from Rio Grande do Sul, it would be better for Flamengo to claim more and more of women’s football every day, in a clash between the two biggest fans in the country.

And the red-blacks deserved it, so many goals were wasted in the 1-1 draw that led them to defeat on penalties.

The favoritism is all of the alvinegras, such security shown to each team they overcome, as witnessed by the players of Real Brasília, defeated by 2 to 0.