The Copa do Brasil of dreams – 07/16/2023 – Juca Kfouri

“Free thinking is just thinking”, taught the thinker Millôr Fernandes.

How to dream, asleep or awake. How to imagine.

And four big fans have to dedicate hours of their next few days to enjoying the semifinals of the Copa do Brasil, the most daring, or creative, even to project the finals.

The São Paulo player thinks about giving archrival Corinthians the same fate given to Palmeiras, with the bonus of breaking Itaquera’s writing.

And he hopes to have Flamengo next, to avenge the elimination in the semifinals of 2022 and, allow the rare reader and the rare reader, the “plus plus” to wash the soul of Dorival Júnior, rejected in Gávea after the conquest.

On the other hand, Fiel is delighted with the idea of ​​keeping two writings: that of Itaquera and that of tricolor virginity in Copa do Brasil.

Defeating Flamengo in an eventual final will also have a double flavor: the rematch of last year and equaling the fourth championship of the red-black team.

The Grêmio supporters have plenty of reasons to savor the expectations of doubling the cariocas to make amends for the idol Renato Gaúcho, also mercilessly dismissed, to then make the finals between the Musketeers or between the tricolors.

There have already been two decisions among Musketeers, won by the Paulistas, in 1995, and by the Gauchos, in 2001, led by Tite against Vanderlei Luxemburgo.

The Nation sees everything with the confidence of having the best team and the best squad in the quartet.

The first step will be to prevent Grêmio from joining Cruzeiro and winning the sixth championship, in addition to remaining alive to be five-time champion.

The second, against any of the Paulistas, with the confidence of someone who surpassed them so recently.
As dreaming still doesn’t pay taxes, and nobody has proposed anything similar in tax reform, let’s dream the possible dream.

MAGIC CARPETS

It could not have been a mere coincidence that three of the four second leg matches in the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil were so well played.

At Arena da Baixada, at Casa Verde and in Itaquera, the pitches allowed the speed of decisions and both Flamengo and São Paulo played under the rugs the vaunted advantage of the owners of artificial grass.

As much as it is to regret the Brazilian difficulty in ensuring natural lawns as in England, better to have them synthetic than with holes.

The exception to confirm the rule was due to the clash between Grêmio and Bahia, another beautiful game and on a soggy lawn, as there prevailed the ponderable argument that knockouts are different.
We saw four games with the intensity that we envy in Europe.

GLORIOUS GLORIOUS

Botafogo enchants more and more.

He won for the eighth time at Nilton Santos with no holes and added 13 wins in 15 rounds.
Even when he encounters difficulties such as those against Bragantino, he reveals the effectiveness that has been lacking in most finishes throughout the Brazilian Championship, and without Tiquinho, the tournament’s top scorer, having scored.

With 26 goals, before the games that completed the 15th round, they were only behind Flamengo, with 27, but with a less leaked defense, only seven times.

And if Luís Castro can later be a reason for nostalgia, Cláudio Caçapa, four wins in four games, no goals conceded, has everything to, tomorrow, in case Glorioso does not continue with such a glorious campaign, to be the new Dom Sebastião.

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