Juca Kfouri: From Quarentinha to Tiquinho – 06/11/2023 – Juca Kfouri

In the memory of the black and white boy from São Paulo in São Paulo and Rio, Quarentinha is a name more read and heard than seen.

Enough to say that he did not celebrate his goals because he considered them his obligation, the best scorer in the history of Glorioso, 313 goals in 442 games, scored between 1954 and 1964.

Between Quarentinha from Pará and Tiquinho Soares from Paraíba, current top scorer in the Brazilian Championship, with eight goals in nine games, there are a number of historical center forwards in Botafogo life, such as Paulinho Valentim, Roberto Miranda and Túlio Maravilha.

In a championship with so many big-name number 9s, from Gabigol to Pedro, from Rony to Calleri, from Hulk to Cano, Tiquinho Soares, 32 years old, comes from Greece, from Olympiacos, but thanks to coach Luís Castro, who knew him good spells in Portuguese football, at Vitória de Setúbal and, mainly, at Porto. One of those typical cases in the labor exporting country, as he left Brazil in 2014, aged 23, after leaving Lucena, a club on the north coast of Paraíba, for Nacional da Madeira, in Portugal.

Tiquinho does not have the shyness of Quarentinha, although he is not exactly an extrovert, and he will not have time to repeat the number of goals and games of the top scorer who does not smile, but, as it seems, if he maintains the average of good performances that comes of last year, will do enough with Glorioso’s shirt to attend the pantheon of its great goalscorers.

Shock-King

Although Palmeiras’ biggest rivalry is in relation to Corinthians, as well as São Paulo and Santos, which gives the measure of the size of Corinthians, nowadays more from Fiel than from the club, an old scolding even for Palmeiras have from São Paulo.

All because, back there, the four hundred tricolors treated the alviverdes as “the little Italians”, prejudicedly, as if it were pejorative.

Whether one thing has to do with the other will be difficult to say, but the only São Paulo classic rigorously balanced in history is exactly Choque-Rei.

Palmeiras has a wide advantage of 146 wins to 105 over Santos, 134 to 129 over Corinthians, and entered Morumbi with 112 draws, 114 wins and the same number of defeats for São Paulo.

From there he left with one more victory, as the Ecuadorian Arboleda was in a deeply unhappy day and allowed two great goals to Gabriel Menino and the boy Endrick, in a 2-0 that did not express the classic, but cannot be called unfair.

miserable Corinthians

Even the maxim of those who go to Itaquera is gone, as revealed by the two defeats in Libertadores and the recent draw with Cuiabá.

The Corinthians of Duílio Monteiro Alves makes you cry indebted to the amount appreciated by Ciro Gomes, because it makes billions, full of extravagant signings, at the whim of entrepreneurs and nebulous commissions.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo is so lost that he confuses, and three times in the press conference after the poor 1-1 with the team from Mato Grosso, Fortaleza with Ferroviária.

Yes!, with Ferroviária, nor, at least, with Ferroviário, Ferrim, a traditional club in the capital of Ceará.

By stating the obvious, that Corinthians does not have a team to compete in three competitions, he avoided the question of what he would do with the possibility of playing in the Copa Sudamericana.

Anyway, little misery is silly.

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