Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Playing a ‘typical Libertadores’ game is not an advantage

Boca Juniors and Corinthians played another “typical Libertadores” game, as if it were an advantage.

Low quality football, a lot of provocation, police shields to protect the field exit, racist gestures in the Bombonera stands. That Cool!

“This is Libertadores”, they drool over the violence.

Once again, a Brazilian team player, in this case the Colombian Cantillo, fell into the Buenos Aires catimba and left the team in hand, although he had just entered the field and there were still more than 20 minutes left for the game to end.

It is difficult to find humor in such disputes, however heroic the decisive point brought from Buenos Aires may be.

Without covering the sun with a sieve or minimizing the influence that the Xeneizes have on the shameful Conmebol, this time accusing the referee is exaggerated.

It was not up to the referee, who was Cantillo’s countryman, to have another attitude, and, had he been home, in a tournament without VAR in this group stage, another absurdity, he would have scored at least two clear fouls committed by Corinthians at the entrance of the area.

It is increasingly important to ask what is the point of participating in a tournament in which being a champion means less having better football and more fighting than playing the game well.

It is not by chance that the Champions League attracts more, that Liverpool vs Real Madrid is awaited with more anticipation than any Libertadores games.

JUDGMENTS

They do not consider themselves guilty without proof, neither harassers nor racists. And point!

As one should look with great skepticism when men file complaints of harassment against women and whites do the same with acts of racism.

Because, let’s face it, it takes a lot of imagination to invent what the woman denounced about Robson Bambu.

And there is no reason to think that Edenílson, 32 years old, 14 years old, would be so indignant if he had not heard what he claims to have heard.

Could you have misheard? He can. But, let’s face it, what’s more possible: that he misheard or the clumsy way Rafael Ramos explained himself?

If Brazilian justice was fair, Lula would not have been arrested.

STILL THE LEGEND

Former basketball and soccer referee Renato Marsiglia, who is now a referee commentator at Rede Record when former player Muller does not disturb him, spoke about the alleged penalty by Nilton Santos that was not a penalty in the 1962 World Cup and which became a penalty even against the image that shows it was not a penalty, a word that is repeated so many times here because, as the magazines say, an endangered species, “father is father, mother is mother, penalty is penalty and cover is cover”.

Marsiglia wrote for the column: “Nowadays, with referees better prepared physically and technically, in addition to electronic resources, the Spanish player would certainly receive a yellow card for simulating a non-existent penalty when trying to deceive the referee. direction of the left leg of Nilton Santos. But, as we know, ‘if the version is better than the fact, divulge the version’. It is the Brazilian extolling a trickery that today would be considered dishonesty”.

Smart Brazilians, shameless bolsominions, media professionals who shame the profession, are still a large contingent in the country.

Some even pose in military uniform and others lie shamelessly on microphones sold to power or the market.