Coritiba and when victory causes disaster

The goal that Robson scored, at Vila Capanema, and which defeated Cruzeiro (1×0), this Saturday (11), will cost much more of a defeat than a victory for Coritiba.

I explain. The victory, analyzed as a result, does not change the limp situation. Relegation to Segundona is just a matter of one or two more games.

However, the invasion of their fans onto the pitch to react to the invasion of Cruzeiro’s fans will be a cause for loss of control of games away from Curitiba and without an audience.

The fact that it is a reaction as a subsequent act to the invasion of the Minas Gerais fans will not be considered, not even as a mitigating factor. Here is the hypothesis that one thing (invasion of the miners) had the same essence as the other (reaction due to invasion of the coxas).

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Coritiba will pay the bill. And it will not only be because of this act by a marginal section of their fans, but also because their board of directors was disregarded for hosting a risky game in a stadium that does not offer minimum safety conditions.

The fans’ immediate reaction was premeditated. If the goal was against Coritiba, the gang of their fans would have taken the initiative in the invasion. And there’s more: the club itself, through the SAF board, encouraged this culture of violence. Several times he accepted pressure from the fans at CT da Graciosa.

The thighs should have already learned from the classic poem “No Caminho com Maiakóvski”, by Eduardo Alves da Costa:

“The first night they came and stole a flower from our garden. And we don’t say anything. On the second night, they no longer hide: they trample the flowers, kill our dog, and we don’t say anything. Until one day, the most fragile of them enters our house alone, steals our light and, knowing our fear, rips the voice from our throats. And we can no longer say anything”.

For Coritiba to play the Segunda, Joinville is right there.