Palmeiras and CBF exchange accusations after a match in Curitiba – 07/03/2023 – Sport

The dispute between Palmeiras and CBF became an exchange of complaints through official notes. After the entity that organizes the Brazilian Championship accused assistant coach João Martins of xenophobia, the club from São Paulo responded with eight public questions about the behavior of the confederation and its arbitration in team games.

Martins was outraged by the performance of Gaucho judge Jean Pierre Gonçalves Lima and VAR in this Sunday’s match (2), against Athletico, in Curitiba.

Zé Ivaldo, from the club from Paraná, was not expelled after hitting Endrick with an elbow inside the area. The referee later showed the red card to Garcia after the ball hit his arm in a kick by Vitor Roque.

Palmeiras won 2-0 and conceded the tie at 2-2.

“It’s bad for the system that Palmeiras wins two years in a row”, said Martins, who replaced coach Abel Ferreira, who was suspended. “What happened was a disgrace. How do you condition a game after three minutes? [O árbitro] Gave Garcia a yellow card for delaying a full-back. Unbelievable. Brazil specializes in wasting time. That’s why in Europe you don’t see Brazil games.”

The CBF said that the video with Martins’ interview will be sent to the STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice) for possible punishment.

“The regrettable act [do auxiliar do Palmeiras] it went far beyond the arbitration’s weekly complaints. What happened, in fact, was a parade of rudeness and a childish and even xenophobic attempt to reduce the relevance of Brazilian football in Europe, even showing ignorance of the championship itself, which has had three champions, two champions, with several teams winning consecutively “, says the note of the entity.

The tone of the note caused perplexity in the board of directors of Palmeiras. President Leila Pereira and Abel Ferreira have been complaining, since last year, of repeated refereeing errors against the team. The leader claims to have received private, non-public apologies from the head of the arbitration commission, Wilson Seneme, about the VAR mistake that resulted in the elimination of alviverde in the Copa do Brasil last year.

In the note released this Monday (3), the club states that Leila received from Seneme, three weeks ago, guarantees of improvement in arbitration.

Palmeiras asks the CBF to specify Martins’ xenophobic attitude and questions why the entity’s statement refers only to the São Paulo team, “since professionals from Série A made, also yesterday, comments similar to those of assistant coach João Martins”. It is a reference to Luiz Felipe Scoliari’s complaints about Hulk’s expulsion in the match between Atlético Mineiro and América-MG.

In the course of the questions presented, Palmeiras presents errors committed against him, such as the non-validated goal against Bahia, in which the ball crossed the line and São Paulo’s goal in the 2022 Copa do Brasil. Portuguese can bother so much a Confederation that seeks a foreign coach for the Brazilian team.

With the tie, Palmeiras was in fourth place in the Brazilian, ten points behind leader Botafogo.