Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Brazilian arbitration is so bad that it contributes to the low level of football

Bahia fights not to be relegated and complains, with reason, of having been harmed by referees in their last three games.

Flamengo fought for the title until they took four points from two draws, against Athletico Paranaense and Chapecoense. Which also gave the red-black leadership reason to put their mouths on the trombone, although they kept silent when they benefited from the game against poor Bahia, who distrusts the current president of Casa Bandida do Futebol, Ednaldo Rodrigues.

The top hat is a fan of rival Vitória and might want to see new Ba-Vis in Serie B, if the red-black Bahian will not fall to Serie C.

Whether you’re right or not in the suspicion, the fact is that, from the whistleblowers on the lawns to those who command the VAR-CBF room, the level of national arbitration manages to tie with that of the last four presidents of the CBF, from corruption to harassment.

And it seems to influence the quality of the game in our championships, because they arouse the irritation of players who bet on their fragility, try to deceive them, complain endlessly and treat the ball as if it were the whistle.

Compare a rare reader and rare reader with referees in the English Championship and do not attribute the famous stray complex that always leads us to think that what happens outside Brazil is better than what happens inside.

And compare with the spectacle provided by players who play in the Premier League.

It is simply unbearable to live with so many errors even with the electronic tool to minimize them.

Worse, the blower makes mistakes in the field, is called in to see the image and corrects the error, but maintains it gallantly.

The episode at Maracanã was so bizarre, so absurd, so scandalous, that either way: either the victim goes crazy or the beneficiary has fun.

This is reminiscent of a famous goal by Túlio for the Brazilian team against Argentina in the 1995 Copa America, in Uruguay.

Then, the genius Luis Fernando Verissimo brilliantly resolved the issue by sentencing: “Against Argentina, hand is chest.”

The Vitória fan will say that, against Bahia, chest is hand.