Baking Potatoes 1, 2, 3. If you thought the characters died too quickly in “Round 6,” last year’s most successful series on Netflix, think again. In the Brazilian Championship, the carnage is similar.
The first of the 38 episodes of the year was enough for the first two eliminations among the 20 teachers of the Serie A teams to happen. Not even BBB is that fast. Marquinhos Santos, from América-MG, and Alberto Valentim, from Athletico-PR, lost their heads. Interestingly, two clubs that ran over many favorites to get two spots in the Libertadores group stage. And then, just when you think they got the plan right, boom…
Last week I made an innocent prediction that this year’s championship would have 20 layoffs. It was supposed to be just an exaggeration, but I’m beginning to think the kick was humble. And now the foreigners have tied the race: of the 18 survivors, 9 Brazilians and 9 foreigners remain.
The case of Valentim, the 2021 South American champion, is impressive. Probably the coach has achieved a feat that challenges the best names in world football, and the worst too. He was sacked in the first round of Serie A TWO YEARS IN A row. That’s right. Last year, the dashing coach was in Cuiabá and was sent away after a simple draw in the first round against Juventude.
Two layoffs, two years in a row, same championship, after a miserable run… You can call Guinness World Records. Hard to imagine anyone hitting that mark. But something tells me that Valentine will still be back in action before the 38th episode of this season.
Among the names put forward for Valentim’s place, Sylvinho and Fábio Carille emerged. Long tongues say that even Felipão was probed. They closed with Carille.
In the case of América, the replacement was chosen quickly, Vagner Mancini, which proves that the board is quick to take the trigger to kill, but, at the same time, knows how to exercise forgiveness. After all, it was the same Mancini who preferred to leave the same América in hand in the middle of the last championship to save (only not) Grêmio.
Two dismissals, two signings, and, amazingly, no one spoke of Renato Gaúcho, the most desired coach in Brazil in the aJ era (before Jesus). Maybe Renato will come back to the news now that we have reached the end of Lent… Better to wait until after Carnival – part 2, the parade.
Year out, year in, and what marks Round 38-Brasileiro is instability. Proof of this is the beginning of São Paulo and Corinthians. The first, who came from a massacre in the final of Paulistinha, massacred in the debut; the second, charged by the poor performance of the team and the veteran stars, knew how to impose itself away from home, with a departure from Willian, who played at the pace of the Premier League.
As the philosopher Lulu Santos would say, “everything changes all the time, like a wave in the sea”. There is only one constant in the last two years of Brazilian: Hulk.
shame
Impressive to Conmebol, with the money they have, with the power they have (they are able to interrupt until curfew for a kick), not putting VAR in the first phase of Libertadores. Although it might even be better, one less judge to make mistakes.
Nightmare with ‘r’
I had a nightmare with Galvão Bueno narrating the 8-1 of Palmeiras against Independiente Petrolero. Have you thought? Zé Rrrrafael; Rrrrrafael Navarrrrrro; Rrrrrafael Navarrrrro again; four times Rrrrrafafel Navarrrrro; Rrrrroni; Rrrraphael Veiga, what a great goal; Rrrrraphael Veiga, look what he did. Incidentally, seven goals by Rafael (or Raphael) in the same game should also be worthy of Guinness.
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