The three-time Formula-1 champion Jackie Stewart one day came up with this one to explain the success of Brazilian drivers: “It must be the water they drink”.
There can be no other explanation for the exceptional strikers revealed by Santos.
If in the 20th century it was in Vila Belmiro that King Pelé appeared, and that was enough, in this 21st there have already been at least four others: Robinho, Neymar, Gabigol and Rodrygo.
Without comparisons with the King, not even among the quartet, something happens in Vila Belmiro.
What Rodrygo did in the asylum that the Santiago Bernabéu became, justifies the perplexity.
Only the poet Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) would properly recount the madridista story of the turnaround against Manchester City.
If Stewart was right with British humor to deal with the trio Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, it remains to be plagiarized to talk about the Santos quintet.
Forget the deadbeat Fittipaldi as he abandons the tracks and the driver Piquet in the service of the fascist. The Scottish pilot referred to their talent.
Nor is the trial outside the lawns of the rapist Robinho, the troubled Neymar, who must have better lawyers than those of the pedaler, or even Gabigol, caught in a clandestine casino in the middle of the pandemic.
Because the Vila’s water is also about talent.
Rodrygo is the exception.
It’s still too early to say, at 21, how far art will take him.
What is already known is that last week he entered the history of the biggest football club in Planeta Bola, the one that is seven times world champion and 13 times European champion.
And, be careful: don’t confuse the best team in the world, Santos de Pele —simply because only Santos had it at its peak and surrounded by a lot of ace — with the biggest club on Earth, arguably Real Madrid.
The equalizing goal in the 90th minute would be enough for the honorable elimination of the Merengues; the 2 to 1, then, at 91′, to take the semifinal of the Champions to the extra time, seemed the ecstasy allowed by the gods of the stadiums.
Dissatisfied, not happy with so many feats, Rodrygo still gave the pass to Benzema to suffer the penalty that decreed the classification of Real to play the final against Liverpool in Paris.
The boy doesn’t look exceptional just for his y.
His father, Eric Goes, 37, former side of Rio Claro, Oeste, Paulista, Juventus, Linense, Mirassol, ASA, Criciúma, Ceará, Boa Esporte and Guarani, who has already scored Neymar and scored in Rogério Ceni, dropped out of football. to take care of his son’s career and, perhaps, to not have to mark him.
Those who know Rodrygo and Eric well say that there is no risk of a toxic relationship like the one between Neymar.
Real Madrid wanted Pele in the 1960s and they never convinced him.
Neymar almost played there when he was 13 years old.
Robinho played for three seasons, and when he arrived, in 2005, he was treated as the new Pelé. The excessive expectation led him to start well and end badly, dazzled and sold exactly to City, demoted to supporting the epic night.
Six decades after bittering the frustration of the royal refusal, Madrid celebrates Rodrygo, who is called Rodraigo in Brazilian newsrooms and, definitively, has ceased to be hope to assume the leading role.
Hard to pin down that he will go to Qatar. Mandatory to be on the field at the Stade de France on May 28th.
And between us, the Champions is much better than the Cup.
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