For everything to continue on Wednesday – 12/03/2023 – Juca Kfouri

Palmeiras experiences the delicious feeling of enjoying the party before the party even begins in earnest.

At home, after beating Fluminense without any major scares, the Alviverde fans started their celebrations, loud and clear.

The 1-0 didn’t even express what happened on the pitch, because if it had been 3-0 there wouldn’t have been an exaggeration.

But the team doesn’t even need goal difference anymore, such is the advantage it has over the title contenders that Palmeiras wins for the second time in a row and for the eighth time since 1971, a mark that no one has.

Added to the two Robertões who, indeed, should be counted as Brasileirãos, here is the only ten-time Brazilian champion.

Someone will say that the alviverde should thank Botafogo.

You owe nothing.

He has to thank himself for the ability to react after the season seemed lost and it is undeniable that Abel Pereira has a lot, a lot to do with that.

THREAD IN ETARISM

At 75 years old, strong as an ox, runner-up in last year’s Libertadores and still in contention for this year’s Brazilian title, Luiz Felipe Scolari, without taking or putting it off, is the same man who led the Brazilian team to their fifth world championship in Asia.

In the interview after the victory over São Paulo, he recommended listening to “My Way” with Frank Sinatra — perhaps, also, to discover one of his few regrets when playing Bernard, that of the sadness in his legs, against Germany at Mineirão.

He and his circumstances, politically more than conservative, footballistically with unchanged vocabulary and methods, Felipão teaches the prejudiced that age is far from being a problem.

On the contrary, it is often a solution, as the Atletico fans say, when replacing Eduardo Coudet, 26 years younger, suffering nine games without a win with the new former coach and, now, still being able to believe in the cup.

And please: don’t say, as redundant, that it’s a defense in one’s own cause…

Especially because Sinatra, who died at 82, sings better and better.

TRI-COLOR DIGNITY

São Paulo went beyond facing Atlético Mineiro without the slightest intention of harming rival Palmeiras in the fight for the Brasileirão title: they played better than Galo in their packed house and sold the unfair defeat dearly.

If it weren’t for the goals from the best attacking duo in the championship, the incredible Hulk and Paulinho, the black and white team would be out of contention.

WHAT CARDBOARD!

Corinthians managed to reach the penultimate round of the Brasileirão depending on the result of third parties to mathematically free themselves from the risk of relegation.

It’s true that they can even qualify for the Copa Sudamericana, which, by the way, is not exactly the preference of the Parque São Jorge sides, where the command is more concerned with rebuilding the team without having to worry about a tight schedule.

The objective in 2024 is to compete in the country’s main tournament among the first. And look there.

EXPLICIT DESIRE

When this text was closed, Santos remained in Série A in 2024.

For the childhood, adolescence and adult life of those who saw the exploits of Pelé and company, may the situation remain unchanged when it reaches the eyes of the rare reader, because the ironies of fate have a limit: the absence of the King is enough pain to add one more.

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