Araraquara, home of the sun and women’s sport – 09/06/2023 – Juca Kfouri

This Thursday, the 7th of September, finally, to celebrate the Independence of Brazil without shocks or fascistic speeches, the decision of the 11th Brazilian Women’s Football Championship begins.

At Fonte Luminosa, with capacity for 20,000 fans and one of the most beautiful stadium names in the country, club by club with the Golden Earring of the Princess, Guarani from Campinas, Ferroviária and Corinthians will face off at 4:20 pm.

The Corinthian Brabas in search of the fifth championship and the fourth in a row, in their ninth participation in the tournament.

As Guerreiras Grenás in the fight for the third title in the 11th participation.

The return game is scheduled for Sunday (10), in Itaquera, at 4 pm.

The teams repeat the 2019 finals, when Ferroviária overturned the favoritism of rivals by drawing 1-1 at home and 0-0 at Parque São Jorge and winning from the penalty spot by 4-2.

In the classification phase, the alvinegras had finished with 14 victories and only one defeat, in the very first place, 42 points, against 23 of the opponents, in seventh place.

So, Corinthians won the four games in the quarterfinals and semifinals and Ferroviária won one, lost another and tied both in the semifinals, always going ahead in the tiebreaker at the lime mark.

This season, the balance is incomparably greater: Corinthians are again first in the first phase, with 37 points, but only three ahead of Ferroviária, in third place.

Tamires and company won the final four games again and goalkeeper Luciana, 35, by taking two penalties, guaranteed the classification of the Araraqua team in the semifinals, after two victories in the quarterfinals and one victory and one defeat in the semifinals against São Paulo , frustrating the Majestic decision.

If women’s football is one of the few activities that succeed at the São Paulo club, Ferroviária’s success is also the result of work well done and with much more difficulty.

Ferroviária prevented the clash of giants, as Sesi Araraquara also thwarted Sampaio Corrêa’s fourth championship in the Women’s Basketball League by winning the final playoff 3-2, 74-62 in the fifth game, on the last day of August.

Something happens at Morada do Sol for such success in football and basketball for women — and the explanation lies in the mayor of the city, sociologist Edinho Silva, in his fourth term for the Workers’ Party.

Irony of fate, he did not want to change the city hall for the post of Minister of Sports and would not be a victim of the frying made by the Lula government when negotiating the position of Ana Moser, without a party, to hand over to the Progressive Party, which is progressive only in name cynical, by André Fufuca, in the country of the ready joke, although, in this case, without any humor.

Once again, sport is used as a currency for unacceptable bargains and the dream of implementing a true Sports Policy, with capital P and E, will remain for the Greek Kalends.

We will continue without looking at the democratization of access to sports, without thinking about physical activity as a public health and education factor, producing talents by spontaneous generation, as has always happened.

Because never before in this country has any president treated the sport as the sport deserves.

The mayor of Araraquara, on the contrary, treats.

And it’s not gossip. Not Fufuca.

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