Cássio in the world of women – 04/29/2023 – Juca Kfouri

There is unanimity about Cássio: he is the greatest goalkeeper in the centenary history of Corinthians.

Last week he saved his 28th penalty and also became the one who most avoided goals from the fatal mark with the alvinegra shirt, although he was wearing yellow.

Thus, he classified the team for the round of 16 of the Copa do Brasil and avoided the embarrassment of elimination by Remo, from the national Série C.

It is possible to discuss whether Cássio is the best goalkeeper in Corinthian history, who had Gylmar, Carlos and Dida, but more decisive and winning than he has.

There are other certainties surrounding the 1.96 m tall man about to turn 36.

He has a mother, sister, is married to a woman and has a daughter.

By commanding Cuca to embrace, convicted (attention: the word is condemned, not accused) of rape, Cássio made a clean slate of these four women in his life, not to mention the grandmothers, etc.

Like him, all the others who participated in the infamous gesture of solidarity had or have, at least, mothers and grandmothers.

Róger Guedes still wanted to teach journalism and law by asking for proof of something that became final and unappealable since 1989.

All in the name of this anachronistic machismo that insists on being like a tattoo on the male soul, insensitive to the pain of women, treated as inferior.

Captain Cássio’s attitude recalled another, in support of another goalkeeper, the black Jairo, in 1980.

He was accused by then president Vicente Matheus of having failed in the defeat by Coritiba, his club before going to Corinthians, by 1 to 0. Matheus considered the goal “strange”, although in an unstoppable shot.

In the next game, against Grêmio, in Morumbi, as soon as Sócrates scored 2-0, he tried to cross the entire field to hug his teammate, immediately followed by the whole team.

Zé Maria, Super Zé, captain of the team, considers that the seed of Corinthian Democracy was planted there that would come to light two years later, with part of the players that were on the field, such as Wladimir and Biro-Biro, as well as himself and the Doctor.

Cássio commanded the repetition of History as a farce and fed the miserable defenders of the indefensible who infest the comments with false analogies about life sentences, lack of protest when Cuca worked in other clubs, all the result of misinformation or bad faith, pure intellectual dishonesty disguised as good-naturedness.

We are a people that suffers from structural diseases such as racism, sexism and homophobia, full of people who refuse to learn, to change attitudes, to reformulate procedures and vocabulary.

Football, obviously, reflects such ills on a planetary scale, and it will take decades to send them to the sidelines.

Until the new times arrive, it will be necessary to face obscurantism with the weapons of criticism, without losing heart, without fearing misunderstandings or injustice, and also with humor to demoralize the hypocrisy of those who use speech to hide degrading actions.

No paternalism, no concessions to the complacent, no pity or pity for those who chose to exchange Corinthian Democracy for Corinthian Demagoguery, including Gaviões da Fiel, another that lent itself to a sad role, now under the direction of those who deny its origins.

In the end, greater than the shame ended up being the resistance that put citizenship above football. Fortunately!

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