Juca Kfouri: it seems inevitable to compare Ramon and Scaloni – 03/04/2023 – Juca Kfouri

“The Substitute” is a beautiful Argentine film that the rare reader can watch on Netflix. It tells the story of a substitute teacher in a public school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

The trajectory of Lionel Scaloni, the interim coach who became world champion for Argentina, will also be filmed.

The CBF interim, Ramon Menezes, may be dreaming of rehearsing the repetition of history and not as a farce.

Scaloni’s first call-up after the Argentine failure in the Russian Cup, when he replaced the famous Jorge Sampaoli, had only nine players remaining from the tournament and it did not include Agüero, Higuain, Di Maria, or Lionel Messi who, in fact, asked not to be called.

Ramon Menezes made his first call-up without injured Neymar and Thiago Silva, but also without Alisson, Daniel Alves, Alex Sandro, Danilo, Bremer, Bruno Guimarães, Éverton Ribeiro, Fred, Phillipe Coutinho, Raphinha, Fabinho, Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus and Peter.

Fifteen were not called up, among 26 who were in Qatar, which does not prevent some from being called up, mainly Neymar, whose definitive absence would be the most significant to indicate a change of environment, the end of toxic relationships in the Brazilian team.

There were nine novelties (and the dull columnist avoided the infamous pun by not treating them as “novedades”).

Whether it will work, the future will tell.

There’s no doubt about the team that will come out of that — and the opponent, Morocco, fourth in Qatar, on March 25, will be an excellent test for the yellow (blue?) team that finished in seventh place.

If Raphael Veiga was mandatory, Rony surprised, although the columnist is among those few who want to have him on their team, due to his effectiveness and, above all, his daring, jack of all trades, as he proved to be against Chelsea in the World Cup final. Clubs, when playing as a right-back, winger and center forward.

The CBF was also successful in making Ricardo Gomes the technical coordinator of the selection, guaranteeing that players will be called up on their merits and not to satisfy the voracity of businessmen.

For those who didn’t even want to hear about the Brazilian team, here’s some good news: healthy expectations have been created for the game against the Moroccans.

Which could become the first step for the Brazilian film “O Interino”, with Vinicius Junior as the main actor and Ramon Menezes as the protagonist, although, also correctly, the CBF ruled out the possibility.

You are right to fear that the repetition will be a tragedy.

Although, as we all know, a good result here, another commendable performance there, Carlos Ancelotti plays too sweet or too salty and the interim stays and stays until, suddenly, he stays.

We’ve seen this movie, sometimes, with a happy ending.

REPULSATION AND EMPATHY

To say that the president of Sergipe made a mistake by attacking the whistle blower who eliminated the Northeasterners from the Copa do Brasil because the additions were stretched until Botafogo tied in Aracaju is raining in the wet.

Ernan Sena should be suspended and out of the picture (too obvious!) for a good while.

Which does not prevent a minimum of empathy with his reaction to seeing the dream of continuing in the Copa do Brasil frustrated by eliminating one of the still great players in our football in such a vile way.

Bráulio da Silva Machado overreacted, played with fire and got burned.

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