May conversations with Guardiola bring benefits to Ceni – 01/27/2024 – Tostão

It is more difficult to monitor and understand the enormous number of signings made by Brazilian clubs than to understand and know the future of artificial intelligence. Everything is uncertain.

When the ball rolls for several weeks, analyzes about teams and new players will be closer to reality. We cannot deify teams and athletes because of their brilliance or make harsh criticisms before the teams prepare better. You need to give time to reason.

Things come and go in football. Often, a player shines at one club, gains prestige, is traded for a lot of money and disappears at another club. These are football’s uncertainties associated with mistaken analyses. Not everything is what it seems.

Luan, who was voted the best player in America when Grêmio won the Libertadores, disappeared on the field, even though he was still young, in his last year playing for Grêmio, and even more so when he went to Corinthians. Luan was hired in recent days by Vitória, which returns this year to the first division of the Brasileirão.

What would have happened to Luan? He is not the only one. Everyone is looking for an explanation, and many think it could be depression, as has been common with other athletes. However, Luan always has the same behavior in interviews, at his peak or in his decline. He, as always, says he is fine and will do everything he can to shine at Vitória. He had taken!

Or could the reasoning be the opposite, that the true athlete Luan would be from Corinthians and that his technical splendor at Grêmio would have been atypical, temporary, resulting from the association of several positive circumstantial factors?

Although the main Brazilian clubs have great professionals on their technical committees, who research and map out with scientific data all the information about the players they intend to acquire, there are many mistaken signings due to errors in evaluations or due to football’s uncertainties. A good hire is the one that works.

Corinthians, champion of the Copinha, is lost in the formation of the squad with a series of signings, some expensive, who seem to have no future. Coach Mano Menezes and the fans are worried. Last year, the team was bad, but there is always a way to get worse. Romero, a dynamic player with a lot of tactical discipline, deserves praise. He is a good supporting player, but he cannot be the team’s main technical reference.

I’m curious to see Bahia this year. The club, after becoming part of the City group, signed several good players, especially Everton Ribeiro, who would still shine in any big Brazilian club. Bahia carried out pre-season preparation at the Manchester City facilities, in England.

I hope that the conversations between coach Rogério Ceni and Guardiola will bring benefits to the coach and Bahia. The styles of the two coaches are different. While Guardiola prioritizes possession of the ball, the exchange of passes from the goalkeeper, the lucidity to wait for the right moment to try the decisive play to score the goal, the teams led by Ceni are generally hurried, anxious, with quick transitions from defense to the attack.

There are several ways to play well and win, but Guardiola’s is more charming, beautiful and efficient. To paraphrase the poet Ferreira Gullar, the art and beauty of football only exist because the result is not enough.

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