When I read a poem, I have to reread it once or several times, to try to incorporate and understand the beautiful words. So it is in football too. Coaches and players need repetition, with relative variable time, to form a tight team.
On the other hand, just as or more important than the time to train and experiment is to unite players who complement each other in their characteristics. The first time I watched Pelé and Coutinho play together at Santos, the best pair of forwards I’ve seen play, the two, in addition to their exceptional technique, floated on the field, close to each other. One thought the other’s thoughts.
Regardless of what happens this Sunday (3) between Palmeiras and São Paulo, the young midfielders Rodrigo Nestor and Pablo Maia, highlights of São Paulo, complement each other in terms of characteristics, although I think that Nestor plays very early, very close to the area opponent. He should come more from behind, with the field ahead. At Palmeiras, the lucid and precise Raphael Veiga is the bridge, the connection, between the fast Roni and Dudu.
In the national team, Paquetá and Neymar, further back, with a striker in front of the two, or more advanced, without a striker, complement each other. It is the union of Neymar’s technical and individual exuberance with the collective intelligence and short and precise touches of Paquetá.
Tite and all of us are very hopeful that the team will be successful in the Cup. The team has played great team games, beat the record for points in the Qualifiers (45), still with one game less, and several players have evolved a lot in the last year, such as Paquetá, Raphinha, Vinicius Junior and Antony. Brazil is among the nine teams with a chance of winning the World Cup, the eight in the first group, minus Qatar, plus Germany and the Netherlands.
France is a little stronger than the others, but it’s not just by chance that the only two teams that won two World Cups in a row were Italy, in 1930 and 1934, and Brazil, in 1958 and 1962. I believe much more in strength. responsibility, commitment and anxiety to win than in the tranquility of a champion.
Tite has 20 players right for the Cup today. It remains to define a left side, a defender and an attacker. Goalkeeper Weverton and side Arana should be the only ones who work in Brazil. There are no others who deserve it. It is easier for a goalkeeper or defender to play for the national team with the same quality as he does for Brazilian teams than for an attacking midfielder or a forward, who shines a lot in his own country, as he finds it easy to dribble and score goals. .
Brazil will face, in the first phase of the Cup, Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon. It’s not an easy group. At the 2018 World Cup, Brazil drew with Switzerland, and Serbia recently beat Portugal in the Qualifiers. The groups are balanced. Although there are favorites in all groups, the tendency is for the technical distance between the teams to decrease, as football is universal and there are many players from small teams playing in big teams in the world.
The Cup, despite allegations of human rights violations in the construction of the stadiums, could be special because it takes place at the end or shortly after the Ukrainian war and the tragic pandemic. It would be a World Cup with many stars, in an environment of lightness, joy and euphoria for the rebirth of life.
Life is beautiful and pleasant, although there is so much idiocy and selfishness in human beings.
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