State Oscars, with zebra in the metaverse – 03/13/2023 – Sandro Macedo

We are in times of metaverses. This explains the fact that a zebra can be seen practically at the same time walking in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, during the exciting state championships.

In São Paulo, Corinthians didn’t even lose the game, but lost on penalties to Ituano — who escaped relegation only in the last round of the first phase. Long live Paulistinha’s rules.

In Rio de Janeiro, the supreme Fluminense, champion of the Guanabara Cup, lost to Volta Redonda, with the right to a goal by Lelê – Voltaço striker who was already bought by… Fluminense. He is the future Flu player who can take Flu out of the final, something like “Back to the Future”.

And in Minas, Athletic beat Atlético at the Joaquim Portugal stadium — the Portuguese really have everything. The difference is that in Rio and Minas the duel is round trip. So, you can take down the zebra at full gallop.

A few hours later, at the Oscars, the metaverse film, “Everything at the Same Time”, won, but there was no zebra. Everyone who lifted the cup was already more or less a favourite.

It was possible to transform this decisive phase of the state championships into a beautiful Oscar ceremony, complete with emotional speeches. The Palmeiras team, which has always participated in award parties, even made a funny montage on its social network, placing Abel Ferreira in several nominations — and winning for “11 Men and a Trophy”; to see if the victorious fake film will have another sequel in this Paulistinha, everything indicates that yes.

The best speech of the weekend was given by goalkeeper Jefferson Paulino, from Ituano, who was moved to tears when remembering the recent death of his young friend Jian Kayo, who was the third goalkeeper of the Itu team.

Exciting.

But if there was an award for worst post-game interview, it would go to Hulk, from Atlético Mineiro. Hulk seems like a nice guy, he knows the value of idols, he has honored Reinaldo, the greatest of Galo, more than once. He always signs autographs and takes selfies with fans. He looks good-square. I wanted to be friends with the Hulk (and also Iron Man). But when he goes to that interview still on the pitch, his head hot after the final whistle, Hulk is a beast, often intemperate. This time he complained that the Athletic players lacked humility, just because he was provoked. And the thing about always being hounded by arbitration seems like an eternally unoriginal script, more repeated than a “Scream” sequel.

Atlético Mineiro entered the field with a reserve team —a good reserve team—, as they are precisely more concerned with Libertadores than with Mineirinho; and is Athletic not humble? No, Hulk.

The attacker should be used to provocations after so much water that he has passed under the bridge of his career. But he keeps falling as a rookie.

Ituano could also take the statuette of animation after the surprising classification for the semifinal. No team went to bed more excited. Who would have thought that a week earlier they had played to escape relegation… And Oscar for special regulation defects for whoever invented the Paulistinha formula, of course.

A few days ago, they also awarded the short film participation prize to Felipe Melo (from Fluminense), who was sent off after staying a minute on the pitch in the Guanabara Cup final. But this time I thought the steering wheel was wronged.

International team Oscar goes to Arsenal (uhu), with another victory, with goals from Brazilians and Norwegian, all with assistance from a Belgian. But the team is British, and Oscar — and this scribe — loves British teams.

Over the next few days we’ll see more trophy contenders popping up and down, more or less everywhere at the same time as a state is going on.

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