Campeonato Paranaense became the soccer course

Deficit, anachronistic and that only serve to justify the existence of federations, the state championships were rehabilitated by the CBF. A contradiction in terms, no doubt.

But anything is possible in this country where, as Minister Pedro Malan said, even the past is uncertain.

As the state championships are now used to qualify the representatives in the Copa do Brasil, the Campeonato Paranaense has become the football prep course. For my generation, there was still the secondary school entrance exam.

Then the pre-university entrance course before taking the exam to enter colleges. It is the famous preparatory course that qualifies university students.

Well then. Qualified for the Copa do Brasil, Maringá, Operário, Londrina and Coritiba start to play. O athletic accredited directly to the third phase.

Let’s deal with Coritiba, who will face Humaitá, in Rio Branco, in Acre. And let’s treat Coritiba with great care, after all, the club is undergoing major transformations with the aim of returning to being one of the main clubs in the country.

He suffered technical and administrative mishaps, attended Serie B with uncomfortable assiduity, but is trying to get out of the mass grave to shine again.

It has a young board of directors, which intends to make a wide change in the concept, management and visual presentation of Coxa.

Let’s leave aside pending legal issues, such as the land acquired for the construction of the new training center, after all, this is also part of the day-to-day life of a football club.

Let’s stick with the technical part in which António Oliveira tries to get to know the players, both the remaining ones and the new signings.

He must have put his observations to good use in the long first phase of the Campeonato Paranaense. But, despite the invincibility, the team did not manage to excite its faithful and fanatical fans.

And the entrance exam for the coach, the team and the board itself starts now, in the Copa do Brasil and extends to Série A of the Brasileirão.