Knowing how to win and knowing how to lose – 09/27/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The team wins, is champion, and soon everyone climbs into high heels, in the dumbest of boastfulness, endless arrogance.

Flamengo is here to prove how the discourse of hegemony ended in a dead letter in a single season, without winning any of the eight titles it played for.

This after warning that Real Madrid could wait.

If you waited, wait until now, because Flamengo was not even able to get past the Saudi Al Hilal, eliminated in the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup. And look, it wasn’t starred like today, with Neymar, Malcom, the Serbian Mitrovic or the Senegalese Koulibaly.

The solidity crumbled on the Moroccan, Ecuadorian, Brazilian and Paraguayan lawns.

The red-and-blacks didn’t know how to win and, when they lost, there was even a top hat who bit the fan’s groin. It went viral…

May São Paulo people be smart to curb attacks on sovereignty and similar nonsense.

Just remember Corinthians, who, in the last decade, guaranteed that in five years they would be among the three biggest clubs in the world and they are there, trying to stay away from the relegation zone and with the probable elimination of the Copa Sudamericana, the second division of the continent.

It is even predictable that those who do not know how to win will know much less how to lose.

Let’s just look at three examples from this season and the Brazilian Championship.

A defeat by Palmeiras caused the denunciation of an alleged system, set up to avoid a second title, because it would be bad for the tournament’s image.

Another one from Botafogo and that’s it! There would be a scheme to avoid expanding the advantage over the vice-leader, ironically,… Palmeiras!

When the cries of the championship leaders subsided, due to being so ridiculed, now a new conspiracy theory emerges, the “Salva Vasco”, creative inspiration of vice-lantern América, when he was defeated only in the ball, at home, by the Cruz-Maltinos .

The Americans, who are a minority in Horto whenever they face popular clubs on the Rio-São Paulo axis, complain about the expulsion of a player just because he threw an elbow at the opponent and ask for a penalty in a move in which their attacker threw a courageous poke at the rival defender’s boot and, of course, he hurt his face.

The only complaint that can be made by the Americans is that their chororô doesn’t even put pressure on the refereeing, as is possible with Botafoguense, although less powerful in relation to Nhe-nhe-nhem from Palmeiras.

Be patient with so much upset, despite it being fashionable outside of football as well, just look at the losers in the CPI on January 8th.

SWEET MOUTH
The last five results of Boca Juniores, Palmeiras’ opponents, at Bombonera, this Thursday (28), reveal the poor quality of their football.

In four games for the Argentine Championship and one for the Argentine Cup, the Xeneizes, at home, lost to Tigre, second to last, and only drew with bottom side Lanús. Away they lost to Defensa y Justicia, beat Central Córdoba and drew, in the Cup, with Almagro, from the second division, although they won on penalties.

In short: despite not being in a good moment, having scored just two goals in the last five games, and missing the spaces that Dudu opens up in attack, Palmeiras can perfectly return from Buenos Aires with the three points in their bag — and practically qualified for the Libertadores final.

Go ahead, Lecture!

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