Long live the Women’s Cup! – 07/19/2023 – Juca Kfouri

After the beautiful presentation of the Women’s World Cup made by the talented neighbor Sandro Macedo last Tuesday (18), it would be better if he stayed quiet in my corner.

“And Brazil is more like a selection in the ‘may surprise’ pot than in the ‘favourites’ pot. It should be said that Brazil for women is, in a way, Croatia for men. And Marta is our Modric, a maestra in his last Cup, but who knows, maybe he won the same blessing as Messi, who had a limited season before Qatar to transform himself into a demigod during that month.”

In a few lines, the best possible summary of our expectations about the Brazilian team.

Watching women’s football has been a delightful experience, not new.

World runner-up in 2007, silver medal at the Beijing Olympics the following year, commanded by the excellence of Queen Marta, the team has always had amazing results in the face of the little regard given to players throughout Brazil and in the CBF, a lack of interest corrected by work structured based on the hiring of Swedish coach Pia Sundhage in 2019.

But not only, say.

Because clubs like Ferroviária and Corinthians, among others, began to give due importance, and the Brazilian Championship started to present an increasingly better level, deficient only in the goalkeeper position, a defect that time and training are also correcting .

Salute the ninth Cup that starts this Thursday (20) is still necessary, unlike what happens with the men’s, with 22 editions, natural and incomparably more popular.

Hence the symbolic importance of certain measures such as the decree of an optional point for employees of the federal administration, much more as a means of drawing attention to the event than with a practical effect, even at the time of the games, always early in the morning.

The women’s Cup is for the Brazilian fan as the quota policy was, so opposed in the beginning and today accepted by the majority, rejected only by those rare specimens that deny there is racism in the country or are against vaccines.

It is unnecessary to compare the Cup just held in Qatar with this one in Australia and New Zealand.

How harmful it is, in Brazil, unlike what happens, for example, in the United States, to preach equality of salaries between male and female players, given the incomparable figures raised by both men and women.

Everything is a process, and if we look at the beginning of this century, we will see how much progress has been made since then, since the nonsense repeated ad nauseam that football is for men ended.

By the way, sorry Rivaldo and the Ronaldos, there was a time when the person with the best command of all the fundamentals of the game was called Marta, the Alagoas six times elected number 1 in world football, a mark beaten only by Lionel Messi.

And no demagoguery at all!

Because only the rarest of readers and the rarest of readers know how to choose the national team or say the name of the main goalkeeper. All good.

We will learn by looking with sympathy and affection at our players, who, moreover, with a yellow shirt on their chest, are much more participatory and aware citizens than the vast majority of our players.

And if Brazil isn’t Croatia, or Marta isn’t Modric, it doesn’t matter.

Just occupy the space that was only for the big guys.

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