Football and life have many mysteries – 11/25/2023 – Tostão

The disorganization of the CBF, the Maracanã management and public security was decisive for the embarrassment, the fight that took place in the stands before the game between Brazil and Argentina. This is after the death of a young woman at singer Taylor Swift’s concert, in addition to the violence that took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro between Boca Juniors and Fluminense fans. It is a moral, tourist and financial disaster for the country.

The violence in the stands before the game between Brazil and Argentina was transmitted to the field, in a match with many fouls, collisions, hands in the face and very little football at the level of two great world teams.

Unlike the match against Colombia, in which Brazil scored a lot from behind and left huge spaces in midfield, against Argentina the team played with a lot of determination, pressured the marking throughout the game and didn’t let the Argentines play. They did the same. There was a lot of destruction on both sides and very few great play constructions.

In the Brasileirão, Flamengo and Bragantino played an excellent match, with a lot of marking and beautiful individual and collective plays. This is how the Brazilian team has to play. To do this, it is necessary to prioritize approach, filling the midfield and exchanging passes, characteristics of Fluminense, also led by Fernando Diniz.

There are a large number of players who shine in Brazil, but who cannot play well in the national team because of the technical difference. Would this also happen with coaches, like Fernando Diniz?

After the senior team’s defeat to Argentina, Brazil was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Under-17 World Cup by the Argentines, losing 3-0. There have been frequent important defeats for Brazilian teams in decisive matches. Could there be a psychological trauma that would spread through the collective unconscious throughout Brazilian football?

The main teams in South America tend to have similar qualities. The best players from other countries on the continent are traded to Europe and those below are signed by Brazilian teams, which become clearly superior to their rivals. Between selections this difference is increasingly smaller.

Was Botafogo’s huge drop in the second round of the Brasileirão more for psychological reasons or have things returned to the right place, as the team individually is not as good as it seemed?

During the fight in the stands, before the game started, Messi encouraged his teammates not to enter the field, for fear that the violence would spread to the field. In the game, the peaceful and scared Messi abandoned the match, as he wanted to do before the ball rolled.

The big surprise occurred after the game, when the young coach Scaloni, at the victory party, said that he did not feel well and was not able to continue leading the team, without saying why. Strange.

Did he, in pragmatic reasoning, remember, with lucidity, that rarely does a team win two World Cups in a row, especially if they don’t have Messi in form? Does he have emotional problems and wants to take care of his mental health? Or does Scaloni feel regret about his success, because he has feelings of guilt, conscious and unconscious, that he is not worthy of the glory of being a world champion? Freud published detailed work on emotional problems in successful people.

I have more doubts than convictions. Football and life have many mysteries.

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