“Poltergeist”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “Paranormal Activity”, “The Others”, “Beetlejuice”. Cinema has successfully exploited external forces for decades, but they now dominate Brazilian football. And they usually terrorize the same victims, the weakest actors in British sport: the coaches.
What do they need to get rid of outside forces? Play well, and eventually not win? Play more or less, but make good use of it? Nobody knows.
Even before the Brazilian Championship starts, we already have two similar films. At Corinthians, Sylvinho was fired after just three matches at Paulistinha. It was the same Sylvinho from last year, the guy who led the team in the honorable fifth place – ok, he could have been in front of Fortaleza, but against Atlético Mineiro, Flamengo and Palmeiras, in that order, there wasn’t much to do.
Did you play well? Not exactly, but the team was gaining parts during the competition, and it’s still in formation. But then why didn’t they fire him last year and wait just now to send little Sylvio away? Answer: external forces.
The board likes Sylvinho and didn’t want to send him away. The players? All plate. The president? Buddy. But it came, the external pressure. And Sylvinho is gone.
Have you ever thought if external forces were so powerful in 2011 and 2012 at Corinthians? What would become of Tite after the defeat to Tolima in the 2011 pre-Libertadores? At that time, who complained was the crowd, who asked for Professor Tite’s head. And then president Andrés Sanchez shrugged his shoulders, kept Tite and was world champion a year later.
This week, in another state, different episode, same series. In Rio Grande do Sul, Vagner Mancini was Grêmio’s coach in the final stretch of the Brazilian, and remained even after the fall to Serie B – apparently, it was found that he was the least guilty. This year, he started prestigious and was undefeated at Gauchinho. That’s right, undefeated.
However, that villain you already know hovered on the blue side of Porto Alegre. And then there was no way. The football director came to the press conference and announced Mancini’s dismissal because of him, the “outside environment”.
Like a poltergeist, external forces have no face, no smell, no name, but they are there, hovering in the air.
Scholars say that the external forces are a mixture of the sound of part of the stands on a rainy day with the suitcases that inhabit social networks and a pinch of complaint from the press — any guy who has a blog that speaks just about a team in which he is the CEO, the journalist, the analyst and even the source; they have the same firepower when it comes to “external forces”.
And about antisocial networks, between us, everyone complains about everything there, even Colomba Pascal at Easter. But there are still people who listen to them.
Botafogo is really good. The team led Carioquinha and lost a miserable game, a dull classic for Fluminense. And then Enderson Moreira, the best coach on Planet B last year, was fired.
External forces? None of that. Who fired was the owner, the Englishman John Textor, who became the man of the team when it became SAF (Sociedad Anónima do Futebol).
And did Textor mention the “external forces” (or “external forces”) at the time of dismissal? No. He said he wanted a different style of play for the team, a new identity for the team that wouldn’t come with Enderson. And if it doesn’t work? Switch again and take the scolding. Nothing like being the owner.
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