Brasileirão alternates good and bad games while emotions remain – 11/29/2023 – Juca Kfouri

Like every championship anywhere in the world, the Brazilian Championship mixes technical richness with poverty, but, like few others, it offers non-stop emotions.

As journalist Arnaldo Ribeiro says, the tournament leveled the top part of the classification table lower and the lower part higher.

In fact, the dispute for the title is so fierce that the maximum points that the champion can obtain will be 72 points, which will be similar or equal to only five other editions of the championship since 2005.

The champion with the lowest number of points was Flamengo, in 2009, with 67 points, the only time the winner did not exceed the 70-point mark.

At the same time, the fight to not fall is also about to demand the highest score ever.

It was Coritiba, in the same year of 2009, who fell with the highest number of points, the magical 45 points.

Well, in this Brasileirão, even those who already have 47 points still don’t feel completely safe.

We are indeed seeing the most balanced championship on Planeta Bola, far from being the best, taking precedence over the Premier League, although the performance of four of the five Spanish teams in the current European Champions League is impressive; only Sevilla is not the leader of their group.

We have seen good games on Patropi’s pitches.

Among the most recent, Flamengo and Bragantino was one of them, without necessarily having many goals, on the contrary, it was limited to just one, from the red and black.

These lines, poorly drawn before Flamengo x Atlético Mineiro, accompanied the enormous expectation for the classic at Maracanã, not only due to the rivalry that the Minas Gerais players bring to the game but, mainly, due to the moment of rise of both teams in the fight for the title.

And these same lines can emphasize how good the dispute between Vasco and Corinthians ended up being, in São Januário, a match whose expectation was only to be fought and which ended with great technical moments, especially in the first half, despite the heavy rain that fell on the river.

It’s excellent that the result practically eliminated the risk of the black and white team falling after reaching 47 points, but only practically.

It’s terrible that it meant the possibility of Vasco’s fifth fall, today with 42 points, two games to play, one away from home, with Grêmio, and another at home, with Bragantino, when they will possibly need the six points to escape — something that sounds herculean.

Anyway, “habemus campeonatum”, means saying to the rare reader who did not learn Latin, like the poor scribe, “we have a championship”!

And it will be heartbreaking on both ends until the end, satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

RESURRECTION OF THE BANNED

Ricardo Teixeira and Marco Polo Del Nero, the two banned from football and prevented from leaving Brazil, want to return to running football and chose Rubens Lopes, aka Rubinho, president of Ferj, to succeed Ednaldo Rodrigues at CBF.

All because they saw the sources that still supplied them cut off, in contracts with Klefer de Kléber Leite, former president of Flamengo who even hired a large press consultancy company to distribute notes against Rodrigues.

Leite was a partner of the late J.Hawilla, one of the main Fifagate whistleblowers and patron to a certain type of people in the sports media.

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