It’s all so old that those who have lived similar situations become discouraged and make skepticism almost a certainty.
Remember, or know, rare readers, that five years before the Premier League was born, in England, the Clube dos 13 had been born in Brazil, an experience that worked so well, in 1987, that soon the cartel made an agreement to get everything back to square one —even with the explicit support, then, of Boni, the commander of Rede Globo, willing to be for Brazilian clubs what Sky became for the English.
Starting at the beginning: what need is there for the CBF to support the league, the Brazilian Football League, Libra, less for sterling, strong, more for mothballs, old?
What is this story about the president of the FPF leading clubs in São Paulo for the formation of the league?
If it’s really for real, Libra is an opponent, maybe even an enemy of the federations, because a real league will organize the Brazilian Championship with rounds only on weekends, with no space for the state ones.
And, as comrade PVC warned, what is this business of another Zveiter on the parade? Isn’t everything bad the family has done to Brazilian football enough? Another?
The national capacity to be dazzled by decorated speeches or well-cut suits is incredible.
There will be no league if the big boys don’t share the dividends of football more fairly.
Nothing justifies that the division is different from what is done in England – 50% equally divided, plus 25% by results and 25% by audience.
Nobody is doubting how many times Flamengo is bigger than Athletico Paranaense or how many times Corinthians is bigger than Fortaleza.
What is wanted, because it is desirable, because it is attractive for the championship, is to reduce discrepancies in the name of competitiveness, is to distribute wealth instead of socializing misery.
Well, in addition to the Premier League, the NBA, the NFL, the MLB are there to show you how to do it.
Nobody needs to invent the wheel, just do the obvious.
Libra lags behind tax reform in a country where the poor pay more tax than the rich, where cars pay taxes and private jets or yachts are exempt.
The logic of the mediocre, or the smart ones, remains in full swing and so Brazilian football will remain at the forefront of backwardness and squatting in front of what it sees in Europe.
Speak Guardiola!
It’s comical to hear someone say that Manchester City has popped or that Pep Guardiola isn’t all that.
It is sensitive to hear him say that football is football, that there is no planning, no tactics, no statistics, to control the emotional, the psychological, which turns a game won into a game lost.
How strange, to say the least, for someone who is as aware of the unforeseen events of the game as he is, to have thought of saving for the Premier League. And because he thought Real Madrid was defeated, taking their best player, De Bruyne, off the field. The one who would probably put the ball under his arm after the madridista draw and cook up the decisive six minutes of added time.
If life had obeyed the manuals of experts, the Maracanazo would not have happened, nor Sarriá, Holland would have been world champion in 1974, and Tancredo Neves would assume the presidency of the Republic in 1985.
As Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) said: “All roads lead to death. Get lost.”
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