Here in Brazil, the vanguard of football’s backwardness – 03/06/2024 – Juca Kfouri

How can we recover the space already occupied by Brazilian football on the world stage with so many less than mediocre people leading it?

From the rooms guarded by the arapongagem at the CBF to those of the presidents of the country’s biggest clubs, what you see and hear is enough to make even the least saintly of creatures blush.

Synthetic grass is being discussed on the Athletico, Botafogo and Palmeiras fields, which is legitimate due to the advantage it brings to its owners and the risks it poses to players, but quality natural grass is not required to host Brazilian Championship games.

It is decided to increase the number of foreign players that clubs can have in their squads, following the trend established since globalization, but the education of those born here is not taken care of.

On the contrary, the top hat is dedicated to pornographic shows of rudeness, prejudice, endless crying and lack of transparency.

Yes, it is always mandatory to remember, there are civilized exceptions, like the CEO of Fortaleza’s SAF, Marcelo Paz, who every time he opens his mouth reveals common sense, capable of saying that if his club’s fans do what the club’s fans did, Sport he will be the first to accept the strictest punishment possible.

He is also capable of planning a SAF without giving up his fingers, at most his rings, although Fortaleza has less popular support than Vasco, Cruzeiro or Botafogo.

But he is incapable — because he is not Superman — of making the clubs in series A and B, divided into leagues that do not connect, all row in the same boat and in the same direction.

That’s why it’s inevitable that a big-time scoundrel will curse his rival’s foreign coach inside his home and demonstrate the surviving xenophobia in his gut, despite the fact that his team’s current greatest idol was born outside of Brazil.

Or for a club to welcome someone convicted of rape or hire a coach who owes an apology to the women of the world, episodes that trigger a true festival of misogynistic, sexist and hateful savagery.

You need to explain the contingent of torture worshipers, those who salute tires or believe in a flat Earth.

The rare reader can see the phenomenon in the comments of the sewersphere and also in the so-called mainstream press.

Who is worried about the quality of the spectacle provided by Brazilian teams when Flamengo is looking for a midfield player who is not so good as to be called up for any selection, like Maycon, as theirs will be and here on dates Are FIFA blank slates?

We increasingly see more top hats with formidable biceps and atrophied brains, in which Tico and Teco form an incommunicable duo. Really deplorable.

The worst thing is that once again the federal government threw away the possibility of having someone in the Ministry of Sports with the knowledge and capacity to break the vicious and addictive circle that has reigned in our football for decades.

We are condemned to the role of exporters of labor, our valued commodities —bye-bye Endrick, bye-bye Vitor Roque, goodbye Vinicius Junior!

And do you want people to love the team?

And don’t you know why since 2002 the World Cup has stopped being our thing?

Or why since 2012 Brazilian clubs have been supporting players in the World Cup?

Now, gentlemen, look in the mirror!

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