The CBF at the risk of demoralization – 08/23/2023 – Juca Kfouri

What if Neymar presents himself to the CBF and, as Al Hilal spokesmen say, he is unable to play?
Of two, one: either he deceived coach Fernando Diniz in the conversation they had or the coach was an accomplice in a frame, the first of the player to take the Saudis in the beak.

It will be a goal for the column, modestly registering, because here it was said that we would see Neymar more in Brazil than in the Arab championship, to take care of real injuries or not.

Maybe this will just be the first chapter. Although it’s good that he doesn’t play with dictators from those parts of the world, fierce people, capable even of having journalists killed and dismembered if they denounce their horrors.

Neymar and dictator aside, it will go down badly, very badly for Diniz to debut with such an embarrassing case.
Another risk of demoralization for the entity is the possibility that Carlo Ancelotti ends up not coming to coach the national team.

Then Ednaldo Rodrigues will go down in the history of the CBF as the president who completed the quintet of bumblers, nine outside the cases of corruption and sexual harassment that made Casa Bandida do Futebol famous since the end of the 1980s.

Let’s face it, adding the name to the Teixeira$Marin$Nero&Caboclo quartet is something a Bahian should flee like Caetano Veloso flees from mediocrity.

Just look at the rare reader and the rare reader that situation: if Neymar comes and doesn’t play the two games of the Qualifiers, it demoralizes the new coach; if Ancelotti does not come in 2024, it demoralizes the president.

In time: after consulting the Old Lady of Taubaté, who Luis Fernando Verissimo likes to hear, she told the column that Neymar will come and play and that Ancelotti even has a reservation made on a Madrid-Rio de Janeiro flight.

DECEPTION

Do you remember a recent column title that referred to the fact that Corinthians had put their head out, despite not convincingly, in 11 games undefeated?

Well, São Paulo almost let her down completely, but Estudiantes partially saved her, although she could complete her service on Tuesday (29) in La Plata.

The atmosphere in the most modern of Argentine stadiums, inaugurated in 2019 for 30,000 fans, will be as or more caliente than it was in Morumbi, when the alvinegro lost from the Copa do Brasil in the semifinals.

Let us remember that Estudiantes fans were responsible for taking to Japan, in a single game, the decision of the so-called Intercontinental Cup, since 2017 recognized by FIFA as a World Cup.

Three-time Libertadores champions in 1968, 1969 and 1970, Estudiantes staged real pitched battles with Manchester United, when they were also champions, in 1968, and in the following two years, against Milan and Feyenoord.

Against the Italians, at Bombonera, after losing 3-0 in Milan, the Argentines won 2-1 in what is still considered the most violent international game in history.

An Italian player (Pierino Prati) suffered a cerebral concussion, another (Nestor Combin) had a fractured nose and fainted on the lawn — and was even arrested by the dictatorship accused of desertion, because he was Argentine by birth and naturalized French before he was 20 years old.

Fortunately times have changed, but if Corinthians is eliminated again, now in the quarterfinals of Sula, the disappointment with the complete disappointment could cut off other heads, except that of the worst president in Corinthians history.

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