A team doesn’t always win because it’s more objective – 07/25/2023 – Tostão

When we commentators don’t know how to explain the details and unexpected facts of a game, which is frequent, we usually say, in balanced matches, that the team that won was more objective.

After the failure of the Brazilian team in the 1966 World Cup, Nelson Rodrigues called “objectivity idiots” those who drooled over the tactical discipline of the Europeans, especially that of the English, world champions, and criticized the dribbling and improvisational football of the Brazilians, called outdated. At the time, they said it was the end of art football, practiced by Brazil in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups. Four years later, the team once again enchanted the world. He gave a show and was objective.

There is a tendency to think that beautiful football is not very objective. At the beginning of his career, it was said that Ronaldinho Gaúcho was a fantasist, a juggler, without objectivity. He fascinated the football world and was twice named the best in the world. He combined special effects with technique and efficiency.

Forwards who score a lot of goals, but do not have other qualities, are much more deified than those who score fewer goals, although many of these participate more in the collective game, make it easier for their teammates and provide many more passes for goals. The decisive pass is just as important as finishing and scoring.

Being objective is knowing how to see what you can see and imagine what you can’t see. The things least seen and least talked about are sometimes the most important. Football and life take place a lot between the lines, in subjectivity, in what cannot be measured or calculated. To be lacking in objectivity is to dribble and not leave the spot, to stall with the ball, not to have the lucidity to make the right decisions and complete the plays.

Athletico-PR didn’t beat Vasco because it was more objective, as someone said. It won because it’s better as a group and individually. The veteran Fernandinho and the young Vitor Roque are among the great highlights of Brazilian football. Vitor Roque is Brazil’s great hope of having a center forward of the highest level in the world in the next Cup.

When Fluminense wins, the team and coach Fernando Diniz are praised for the beautiful football, the approach of the players and the exchange of passes. In defeats, they are criticized for football that is not very objective. The last bad results are probably a consequence of stronger marking and pressure from opponents.

The Brazilian women’s team thrashed Panama 4-0 with beautiful and objective football, facilitated by the fragility of the opponent. There were beautiful shots. The four goals came from plays on the left, almost always with the participation of the great side Tamires, followed by crosses and passes to the center. Ary Borges, entering diagonally from the right to the middle, scored three goals and even gave Bia a pass to score another.

The four similar goals were a demonstration of the team’s collective strength. On the other hand, it is doubtful whether there was a lack of a greater repertoire of attacking plays, which can lead to difficulties against stronger teams. On Saturday, against France, we will be able to have a vision of the team’s capacity closer to reality.

The old clichés that Brazil is the country of football, that players do things that only they know, present a presumptuous view. The ball artists are present all over the world. We are among the best, but we are not unique.

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