Rogério Ceni can’t be a teacher – 04/20/2023 – PVC

Rogério Ceni can’t get rid of his idol to become a teacher. There are two antagonistic types of leadership. In the locker room, as an athlete, his ascendancy over his colleagues was due to the technical aspect. The difficulty as a coach is the need to understand that your team members will never work with the same level of commitment and quality that the myth imposed on itself.

People are different.

Clubs too.

Rogério worked at Fortaleza, the only club he left without being sacked. And he paid the fine provided for in the contract, strictly enforced.

At São Paulo, the goalkeeper got confused every time he walked through the Barra Funda Training Center gate.

But the failure of 18 months without a title is not Rogério’s sole fault.

São Paulo has changed a lot since the time when Juvenal Juvêncio taught the secrets of those who enter a locker room to command, not to wear boots: “If you promised Coca-Cola, don’t give Guaraná”, said the old president.

Juvenal was the last of the São Paulo cardinals, not of the same lineage as Paulo Machado de Carvalho, Laudo Natel, Manoel Raimundo Paes de Almeida, or even Antônio Leme Nunes Galvão.

All led in a democratic way and with alternation of power, unlike Palmeiras and Corinthians, of long terms of Delfino Facchina and Mustafá Contursi, in Parque Antarctica, of Wadih Helou, Vicente Matheus and Alberto Dualib, in Tatuapé.

Despite being democratic, São Paulo was an owner’s club. Laudo Natel, in the 60s and 70s, Antônio Leme Nunes Galvão, in the 70s and 90s, Juvenal Juvêncio, from 2001 until his death.

The change of statute, to allow Juvenal’s third term, transformed that structure. As of 2010, Morumbi started to have wings, as if it were a samba school. Up to 11 political parties, with no de facto leader.

Julio Casares once again changed the internal regulations in order to be re-elected in December of this year. He has the deliberative council in hand, to continue in the presidency. The excess of wings, however, forces him to make concessions.

It’s a kind of co-option presidentialism, like in Brasilia.

There are those who say that the only way out for São Paulo is to become an SAF. Is not true. Becoming a corporation or not, what is missing is a leader who will command the reconstruction.

15 years ago, Palmeiras’ political scene was similar. The turnaround that took place in Antarctica Park seemed impossible. Paulo Nobre’s leadership and his ability to refinance the debt helped to reverse football’s axis. Palmeiras became a power and São Paulo started to occupy the intermediate block.

Coach changes have decreased, but they are still a symptom of the internal pressures that produce decisions to please supporters and fans. Different from when Telê Santana remained in office for five years and Muricy another three.

What came first: the chicken or the egg? Does a team change coaches because it loses or does it lose because it changes coaches a lot?

A giant club goes many years without winning because it loses its identity. In the case of São Paulo, for failing to resolve its intramural problems, with the advice of its old cardinals.

Dorival Júnior will be the third technician under the Julio Casares administration, the 14th since 2015, the year of the crisis that removed former president Carlos Miguel Aidar.

São Paulo’s vocation has always been stability. As long as she doesn’t return to Morumbi, the victories won’t reappear either.

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