Opinion – Tostão: Real Madrid and Manchester City celebrated football with an emotional match

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Serra do Curral, an environmental heritage that embraces and shelters Belo Horizonte, cannot be threatened by economic interests. In this moment of destruction, we have to celebrate life, as the painter Oscar Araripe does, with the beautiful exhibition “Flowers for Inimá”, which takes place in Belo Horizonte, at the Inimá de Paula Museum.

Sunday (8) is the day to celebrate mothers, present and absent. “What memory loved became eternal.” (Adelia Prado)

In midweek, Real Madrid and Manchester City celebrated football, with the Spanish team’s emotional, heroic and, again, comeback victory, as in the matches against Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain and in the first game against Manchester City. At Real Madrid, the surprising is normal.

What will be the secret of so many and unbelievable victories? Could it be the immense talent of several players? The presence of a technician, Ancelotti, confident, pragmatic and competent? Or would it be the mental strength of a club used to winning, a story that starts to be incorporated by young people, like Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo, scorer of two goals? Or is it chance, which has no limits or explanations? It must be all of that.

Obviously, it wasn’t the substitutions made by Guardiola that defined the match, but I and many were surprised by the departure in the second half of De Bruyne, who didn’t shine, but played well. Not wanting to be, but being a tavern psychoanalyst, although I have completed my course to practice the profession, I imagine, I suspect, that Guardiola, once again, wanted to show that Manchester City is a collective team, which does not depend on just one ace.

The celebration of football and life began the day before, with Liverpool’s spectacular 3-2 comeback against Villarreal. Liverpool and Real Madrid will play the final on the 28th in Paris. In addition to the talent of the two teams, it will be the confrontation between the fury of Liverpool and the mystery, the chaos, of Real Madrid.

The celebration of football doesn’t stop. While Flamengo, again with defensive problems, drew 2-2 with Talleres, in Argentina, Jorge Jesus, in Rio, watched the match and declared, without any ethics with compatriot Paulo Sousa, current coach, that he wants to return to Flamengo and still gave a deadline until the 20th of May.

If Flamengo loses to Botafogo, the coach’s return will not be a surprise. It can work or fail, which would be a chance to definitely exorcise the ghost of the coach, who scared all the other hires after he left. The opposite may occur, a wave of solidarity with Paulo Sousa, which would strengthen the current coach.

The wonderful celebration of the Fortaleza fans, with protests against racism, in the 1-1 draw with River Plate, with a great performance by the Ceará team, was another celebration of football and human solidarity.

Sunday is also a party day at the Independência stadium, with almost all tickets sold for the Série B classic, between Cruzeiro and Grêmio. It will be a good opportunity to better assess the quality of both teams.

Football celebrates diversity, that there is no single way to win or to play well. This Sunday, we will have football with a lot of strategy, tactical discipline and well-defined positions from Palmeiras, directed by Abel Ferreira, a victorious coach, against the approach game, of short exchange of passes, without such fixed positions and of more improvisation of Fluminense , commanded by the still uncertain Fernando Diniz.

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