Brazil needs to go back to being the country of football – 07/20/2023 – PVC

Answer quickly: what was the last WNBA champion team, the North American women’s basketball championship?

Unfortunately, the prominence of collective sports among women is not equal to that given to men.

It’s not just in football, nor is it just in Brazil.

Everyone knows that the Denver Nuggets won the NBA. Few people answer that the Las Vegas Aces were the WNBA champions.

In football, the World Cup started on Thursday (20), with New Zealand x Norway, and the Brazilian team trying for the unprecedented title. The best participation in eight editions was the runner-up in 2007.

It was Marta’s second time. The star of that Cup ran the risk of being beaten by her brother if he saw her playing soccer.

At the time of the final lost to Germany, the powers of women’s football were different. Brazil was the strongest among the Latin countries, it was inferior to the Scandinavian, Swedish and Norwegian, German and North American countries.

Currently, Pia Sundhage’s team fears a confrontation with France, is inferior to England, Canada and Holland, plays a tough game with Italy and Spain.

Brazil won a friendly against Germany and drew with the English, European champions, in the Finalissima tournament. But we are behind, we stand still, while other countries develop.

CBF can be blamed. But it’s our fault, of fathers and mothers who don’t know which foot their daughter kicks. Quickly tell her if she is left-handed or right-handed. Not with the pen, with the ball…

My brother lives in London and informs that there is a certain expectation around the start of the World Cup.

Not as much as you might think. “There’s the golf open, the cricket Ashes and until Sunday there was the Wimbledon tennis tournament.”

England can be world champions.

All 64 games will be broadcast on the BBC free-to-air. Here, Globo will show seven matches live; SporTV, 34. Let’s be fair, Rede Globo has invested in women’s football in recent years. More than the audience charges, less than the BBC in London.

40 years ago, Band showed Radar games, the best women’s team of the 1980s. 30 years ago, Canal do Sport featured Milene Domingues playing for Corinthians. TV didn’t show all the championships since then because there was no audience or there wasn’t an audience because TV didn’t show it?

It’s our fault!

It’s changing, little by little. Coverage of the 2019 and 2023 World Cups helps a lot with development. Curiously, the more women’s football, the less basketball. The TV helped a lot when watching Prudentina x Unimed, Hortência x Paula. Those broadcasts forged a generation, which gave rise to Janeth, world champion in 1994, alongside the two greatest geniuses of collective women’s sport in this country.

Sport practiced by women and public success on Brazilian television is volleyball. Whether with the Superliga or with the selection of José Roberto Guimarães, the audience explodes whenever a ball goes over the net. Bia Haddad will also provoke this phenomenon, because Brazil likes winning more than sports. It was like that with Guga Kuerten.

In football, the party will arise if Brazil approaches the final.

It is more realistic to think of the quarterfinals. Looking at reality will help you to carry on with your work, not dismiss Pia Sundhage, with all the successes and mistakes that you will make in the next month.

Pia cannot be made into a single episode, as basketball did with Rubén Magnano.

Brazil needs to go back to being the country of football and, for that, it has to be men and women, girls and boys, from childhood and in alphabetical order.

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