No, obviously and repetitively, no comparison will be made here between the game between two European giants for the European Champions League, Manchester City and Real Madrid, and the one played by two other South American giants for the Copa Libertadores da América, Corinthians and Boca Juniors.
Yes, even if obvious and repetitive, a comparison will be made here between the game between the English against the Spaniards and the one between Brazilians and Argentines.
It’s because?
Because the two games were under similar conditions: great pitches and packed stadiums, in Manchester with 52,000 fans, in São Paulo with 44,000.
Beautiful parties packed by the City fans, with the presence of madridistas, and no less exciting that of Fiel, with 2,500 Xeneizes in Itaquera — too bad with an idiot, arrested for imitating a monkey.
The difference, the brutal discrepancy, was in the football presented there and here.
There, seven goals, some very beautiful, here two, also well done, and that’s it.
Because Manchester City’s 4-3 victory took 90 minutes, plus stoppage time, simply spectacular, as the final three minutes of the NBA playoffs often are.
And the 90 minutes plus added time of Corinthians’ 2-0 triumph were painful.
The two most popular teams from São Paulo and Buenos Aires, the two most important cities on the continent, were on the field.
Much more relevant: two teams from the two football schools that have ruled Planeta Bola were on the field, the schools of Rei Pelé, Mané Garrincha and Ronaldos; by Di Stefano, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.
Realizing once again that what was sweet is over hurts and makes you jealous.
Healthy envy, to be politically correct?
No, envy really envy, with a certain amount of anger.
Of course, Brazilians were in droves on the lawn and on the benches in England.
In the blue team, goalkeeper Ederson, joker Fernandinho and striker Gabriel Jesus.
In the merengue, Eder Militão, Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior, in addition to Marcelo and Casemiro on the bench, the latter because he was injured, as he is an absolute starter and, by the way, was greatly missed, in a way it even explains the four goals conceded by the madridistas, four which, without exaggeration, could have been eight.
Who shined?
Belgian De Bruyne, Portuguese Bernardo Silva, Brazilians Jesus, Fernandinho and Vini, French Benzema and Croatian Modric shone.
No English or Spanish, although, let’s face it, English Phil Foden did well too.
In Itaquera they were almost all Brazilians and Argentines, no Europeans, some Peruvians and Colombians, one Paraguayan.
This only increases envy and anger, as Boca and Corinthians have won five world titles, the last one for Corinthians ten years ago, with no prospect of a repeat in the coming years.
Ah yes, because globalization, the euro, the dollar, etc.
The inescapable conclusion is that we are left behind, because we continue to manage football as in the last century and we have to be content with our rivalries, no longer with the excellence of our teams, with the quality of our games, except for one or the other, exceptions that confirm the rule.
It’s sad to wake up on a day when there’s a game for the Champions League in the afternoon, and the Libertadores at night, and the biggest excitement is for what will happen on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
There will always be someone to say if it’s the old mutt complex. Self-deception of those who say.
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