Championship starts very badly – 04/14/2024 – Juca Kfouri

São Paulo stumbled, at home, in Fortaleza, Bragantino gained a point against Fluminense, in Rio and Corinthians had title candidate Atlético Mineiro ahead of them, in Itaquera.

The debut of one of the favorites, Palmeiras, in Salvador against Vitória, given the late time, will be postponed.

Even against ten athletes throughout the second half because the whistle blower sent off Argentine Battaglia in extra time in the first 45 minutes, Corinthians did little to win the game and the horrible 0-0 remained on the scoreboard until the end, in a game of 14 yellow cards, one of them, of course, for Fagner.

If we look at the referees in Itaquera and Serra Dourada, in Goiânia, in the game in which Flamengo beat Atlético Goianiense 2-1, there will be no shortage of reasons for concern as the championship progresses.

If that wasn’t enough, the pitch at Serra Dourada, which was the best in Brazil when it opened in 1975, is a sand pit, a real absurdity that Casa Bandida do Futebol can’t handle, because its managers don’t care about the quality of the show.

For those who saw the 32nd round of the Premier League, seeing the first of the Brazilian Championship is tremendously disheartening, because it clearly proves that our football is third-rate even in aspects that it might not be, such as the issue of referees and pitches.

As for the pitches, register, the São Paulo Football Federation managed to resolve it.

The CBF, involved in reports of moral and sexual harassment, has more urgent matters to resolve.

Brave women

The players from Palmeiras, Kindermann, Corinthians, Ferroviária, São Paulo and Botafogo showed once again the courage that Brazilian players lack by protesting against the blank slate made by Santos, which rehired a coach denounced 19 times for sexual harassment and morality, like the CBF top hats.

The new Santos board is a disgrace.

On your knees

Prepare your knee pads, rare reader, to watch on your knees the clash that has become a classic between Manchester City and Real Madrid, this Wednesday (17), to decide who will go to the Champions League semi-finals.
There will be nothing more spectacular to do this week.

City, by the way, took the lead in the Premier League on a perfect weekend in which Arsenal and Liverpool lost at home to smaller teams and left the way clear for the Citizens to win their fourth consecutive title, unprecedented in the 135-year history of the English Championship.

The Merengues will be champions for the 36th time in 95 years of the Spanish Championship.

The discreet militant

“An Encyclopedia in the Tropics — Memoirs of a Socio-Environmentalist” tells the story of Beto Ricardo, from Instituto Socioambiental, an NGO that Ailton Krenak describes as a civil fortress against misinformation about indigenous people in Brazil, encouraging public debate with quality maps and data. A discreet and supportive, but firm activist, Beto played a prominent role in decisive moments, such as the mobilization that led to an entire chapter in the 1988 Constitution on the indigenous issue.

In a few words, Marcelo Leite could not have been happier when describing, in Ilustríssima, the anthropologist Beto Ricardo, a rare Brazilian, the best and most outstanding student at the Faculty of Social Sciences at USP in the early 1970s. And who deserves a Saint Paulo better than the current one…

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