By firing Osorio, Athletico proves that it is moving in circles

The doctor Juan Carlos Osorio spent 60 days drinking wine, singing opera and playing at being a coach, becoming the Athletico inside out. I praised it when it arrived, but soon afterwards I concluded that I went to the pot very thirsty and drank it all.

Now Osorio has been fired.

The other day I wrote that Hurricane is a complicated case to understand. But now I understand it. Since Paulo Autuori left, his football has gone in circles. He walks and walks and walks. When he finds out, he’s in the same place.

He spent a year improvising as a coach (Turra and Wesley Carvalho), spent two months speculating on the market to hire Osorio, who had to be fired within 60 days. Did the leaders not know that Osorio was who he showed himself to be?

This is going in circles. It is a product of incapacity that leaves football decisions to speculation. The risk increases and error becomes inevitable.

Osorio, who was sorry about coming, when he was fired, resolved his problem. But Athletico doesn’t think it’s solved its problem. As it is an old problem, it has become very complex.

Football has a certain ability to change things, we learned. It was expected that the political union, allowing the choice of a good board, would have a direct impact on the Caju CT. At first, euphoria; then, an illusion; now, it is known, a lie. In Furacão football, everything continues as before.

There is a president, Mario Celso Petraglia, who, because he is ill, is prevented from carrying out personal acts. Hence, commanding the club through electronic messages and virtual meetings. In football, this kind of command is sterile. This is because, covering professionals from the most different social strata, it requires the personal exercise of command. It is an unavailable element. The players who arrived from January onwards, personally, don’t even know Petraglia.

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There is a board (Kruger, Gaede and Glomb) tied to the virtual command and, therefore, involuntarily becomes inert. And there is a CEO, Professor Leitão, who has now discovered that Athletico is not the wonderful world of Disney, there in Orlando City, where he worked.

At Athletico there is a demand for results because on every corner and on social media, there is a fan base whose passion, sometimes, goes beyond the point. Leitão understands administration like few others. But about football as a game, he knows nothing.

This state has repercussions on CT do Caju. Without an authority with knowledge and personal influence in football, Caju is under the command of Marcio Lara, who ignores the basic things of the ball game and human relations. A new manager says that Lara speaks English. Chico Buarque’s “horse”, in “Hansel and Gretel”, “spoke English”.

And in this spiral caused by the lack of personal and capable command, the figure of the coach emerges. It was Autuori and Felipão back there, now it was Osorio.

The new coach, no matter how good he is, will be helpless. Without a football expert to diminish the coach’s powers, Furacão will continue to walk in circles. Walking, walking to end up in the same place.

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