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Opinion – Juca Kfouri: A fan who gloats over his rival after defeat deserves contempt

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​Joking is part of football and, especially in stadiums, with two fans present, it’s only natural that the winners make their rivals’ lives hell. With chants and the devil on four.

Different is the attitude of those who call or text losers as soon as defeat happens.

That’s cruelty, in addition to being deeply unsympathetic and disrespectful to the victim, whether relative or friend.

There are uncles and nephews who do not spare even when they are children, and anyone who has been through this knows the extent of the trauma.

The next day, go there.

As much as football is taken seriously, play is part of it, in addition to awakening creativity and allowing delicious moments that celebrate rivalry.

Nothing against, let’s be clear, all the jokes, now called memes, that flooded social networks as soon as the Club World Cup decision ended.

The criticism is of those who started sending messages to Palmeiras in their circle as soon as the extra time in Abu Dhabi ended, still under the effect of the penalty goal that decreed the end of the alviverde dream.

Definitely not a friendly attitude.

Respecting the pain of others is mandatory.

Losing championships is far from being compared to the death of a loved one, as the psychologist of the Brazilian team once did when commenting on the loss of the World Cup.

But there is a feeling of mourning, of irreparable loss after certain games in which illusions turn into disappointments.

“We lost a week of our lives”, said a Brazilian fan after the elimination to Italy in the 1982 World Cup, in Spain, in the so-called Tragédia de Sarriá.

In fact, we were counting on the days of the semifinals and final games and we saw hope crumble at the merciless feet of top scorer Paolo Rossi, scorer of the three goals in the 3-2 tie, when a draw was enough.

Instead of facing Poland on July 8, in Barcelona, ​​the plane went home, in deep depression.

It is clear that football allows a comeback, no defeat is definitive, the Palmeiras player knows well, so much so that he has already fallen twice to Serie B and then won the Libertadores twice.

That this Monday (14) Emerald fans suffer at work, at school, on the streets, is part of it and, if it didn’t, football would be less fun.

Those who disrespected them on Saturday (12), however, deserve only contempt.

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That Olympic silver medals, or bronze medals, deserve celebration is consensual.

In football it was almost always different, although, for example, the surprising Croatians really had to celebrate the runner-up in the World Cup in Russia.

Here, the Hurricane fans applauded the second place in the last Copa do Brasil, despite the Galo having run over with 6 to 1 on the aggregate score.

Maybe it will. But it looks more like Swedes.

unsurpassed

Like the red-blacks of men’s football in 2019, a Corinthians fan who follows the women’s team is sure that, with each game, with each decision, he will leave happy.

In the final of the Supercopa do Brasil, against Grêmio, although with great difficulty, there was no other: 1 to 0, in extra time, a goal by Gabi Zanotti.

The gaúchas defended themselves in Itaquera, made wax, beat, fought bravely, but in the seventh clash with the alvinegras they lost for the seventh time, despite the great defenses of Lorena, as good a goalkeeper as an actress to paralyze the game.

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