CBF, Flamengo and shame – 08/28/2023 – Sandro Macedo

After another weekend of the Brazilian Championship, the Flamengo team had to hear (again) from its esteemed fans that it is shameless — this for the finalist team of the Copa do Brasil and that should finish in the G4 of Nacional, which only there is a team fighting for G1, Botafogo.

Why then is Flamengo always more demanded than other lame teams that also have a good investment? Wouldn’t Corinthians, São Paulo and Atlético Mineiro also have shameless campaigns? The answer, wow, is because Flamengo has more… more everything.

Flamengo has the biggest crowd, so it’s also the most hated team. And Flamengo is not just the richest, it is much richer than the others (congratulations to the previous board, which fixed the finances). It is the team with an annual budget of R$ 1.1 billion —Palmeiras and Corinthians are around R$ 800 million.

Not to mention the delicious curse of 2019, when fans and the world discovered that money well spent brings happiness. With all this, the charge is always greater.

It’s like, in a way, with Qatar Saint-Germain, a team based in Paris. Winning the French title against financially modest rivals does not appease the fans’ fury. Since they have more, they want more. That’s why they celebrate when a famous star, but not committed, leaves, see Neymar.

Flamengo doesn’t have Neymar, but it has the money that generates an expectation that doesn’t match reality… and it has the Powerful Gabi too. Mighty Gabi is the name of the mega birthday party the striker is promoting this weekend, while local rivals Fluminense are trying to secure themselves in the Libertadores semifinals. At the current stage, it would be more prudent to just congratulate the firm and a cupcake for those closest to you, but Gabi is powerful, anyway…

Sampaoli’s work is mediocre, but the biggest culprit for Flamengo’s tangle is the amateur board.

In Spain, England, Germany or France, the monetary factor is the main point of imbalance in the championships. Whoever has more money has more structure, forms the best squad and raises the cup. Not in Brazil, thanks to the incompetence of those in charge of Flamengo (good for the championship).

I don’t know if Flamengo’s squad is shameless, but you can say that it doesn’t make the top 5 of the most committed.

The CBF, which has nobody’s supporters, is still a disgrace.

President Ednaldo Rodrigues —who, like my late father, was born in Vitória da Conquista in Bahia— may even have some good intentions deep down in his little heart, but the president looks like a child who has just inherited a candy factory.

The amount of patacoadas of the current management is not small and goes through the total disregard for the Brazilian team for months on end — I still don’t know what we should call Fernando Diniz: interim, provisional or transitional?

In recent days, the list of embarrassments has gained a little star… and Atlético Mineiro too. According to the entity, the title of the Tournament of Champions, played in 1937 for 40 days, has the same value as the Brazilian Championship, therefore, Atlético becomes three-time champion.

After a thorough search for two minutes on Google, this scribe discovered that there was a Tournament of Champions also in 1920, won by Paulistano. So, would Paulistano be the first Brazilian champion?

Using the same logic, I would ask all fans to investigate any interstate mequetrefe title that their team may have won. Afterwards, make a dossier (it’s a Word document with a nice cover and two graphics) and send it to the CBF. Then just wait and celebrate the title. We will have many.

Champions with certain death
This Thursday (31) there is a draw to define the Champions League groups. Newcastle of Arabia is in pot 4, that is, Group of Certain Death in sight for some non-English seed.

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