Only the Derby can perform miracles – 02/18/2024 – Juca Kfouri

It was 2-0 for Palmeiras, it could have been 4-0 considering two goals scored that Flaco López and Endrick wasted, if there was any frustration on the Alviverde side it was that of not beating their biggest rival in front of 30 thousand Palmeiras fans in Barueri.

Then, Yuri Alberto pulled one back in the 42nd minute, just to make the score even less true.

Goalkeeper Cássio is sent off, Yuri Alberto is considered to replace him because Corinthians had already made five changes, but he is preserved to try for the unlikely draw.

He then takes a knee in the back and leaves on a stretcher, immobilized, even reminiscent of Neymar in the 2014 World Cup.

Defender Gustavo Henrique goes for the goal.

So, at 55, he lacks the alviverde intermediate.

The Argentine Garro hits hard, the experienced Weverton removes his hand, the ball hits the crossbar and makes it 2-2.

Of course it doesn’t end there, although it should.

Remember, rare reader: Corinthians didn’t have a professional goalkeeper.

Last few seconds, ball in the Corinthian area, weak shot, Gustavo Henrique surrounds the chicken, but, on the fatal line, Raniele avoids the victory goal that would be fair, but too cruel, for Palmeiras over Corinthians.

Yes, Corinthians beat Palmeiras 2-2 as no one expected and the development of the classic did not indicate it.

He won because he made the infamous pun and headline that is Sheet it should say: “Garro’s claw shows its claws”.

There is no older Corinthian fan who hasn’t remembered the famous “Adãozinho game”, when the black and white team went 2-0 behind, tied 2-2, took the 3-2 lead on the way out, made it 3-3 on the way out and still 4-3 at the end of the Derby.

And that. Palmeiras’ luck was the whistle that ended the classic, because with a little more time, nine against 11, Corinthians would certainly have made it 3-2.

Does anyone doubt it?

DOCTOR SOCRATES, 70

How would Doctor Sócrates be today, on his 70th birthday?

This is a type of exercise that will never have an answer.

No matter how much we imagine what loved ones who are no longer here would be like or what they would say, obviously, we will never know, even if we have lived intensely with them.

Add, in this case, someone who also defined himself as a walking metamorphosis.

Magrão would probably be happy with Lula as president and worried about the direction of Corinthians, a passion he adopted after his childhood as a Santos fan.

Without a doubt he would have been outraged by the behavior of those macho men who attacked the Corinthians family at the Santa Cruz stadium, where he was born to become a global symbol.

Between the Norwegian Haaland and De Bruyne I would choose the Belgian, unless he had changed his vision of football a lot.

I would have Pep Guardiola as a paradigm, but I would prefer the company of Jürgen Klopp after the games.

I would have stopped watching the team’s games a long time ago, irritated not only by the CBF’s mismanagement, but by the lack of quality of the performances. Then he would adopt that air of disdain of those who disguise their sadness with indifference.

Speculations aside, Doctor Sócrates is greatly missed by Brazil and by everyone who lived with him.
A character from the 20th and 21st centuries, the quixotic Slim, a compliment!, has always been more in line with 19th century romanticism.

The longing hurts and the memory of great moments comforts.

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