The future of football in Brazil needs to be built – 06/13/2023 – Tostão

I am worried. The Brazilian team continues without a coach. The European championships are over and there is no longer any reason to wait for Ancelotti or another coach from Europe, a priority for the CBF.

I am concerned about the lack of a great full-back, right and left, which was evident in the 2022 World Cup, especially since Brazil already had exceptional players in these positions. In addition, Thiago Silva ended his career in the national team. There are other good defenders, like Militão, but no player like Thiago Silva.

I’m worried about the absence, for a long time, of one or two midfielders, who play from one intermediary to another, who think and anticipate the game, who like to keep the ball, to play alongside Casemiro. Brazilian football started to worry more about forming midfielders, wingers and fast forwards and dribblers. Both types of players are essential. Besides, we don’t have a top scorer, a center forward, like Kane, Benzema, Ronaldo, Romário, Reinaldo and others.

I’m worried about Neymar, who is still injured and doesn’t know which club he will play for. He and Vinicius Junior, our great hopes, need to shine together, not one after the other. Tite’s mistake in the Cup was replacing Vinicius Junior during the match against Croatia. In several Real Madrid games, Vinicius was discreet and suddenly made unimaginable moves.

I am concerned about the excessive priority that the national team and the Brazilian teams, on average, give to intense football, fast and in a hurry to reach the goal, to the detriment of the approach of the players, the exchange of passes and waiting for the right moment to try the goal. Both postures are important and can coexist in the same game. It doesn’t necessarily have to be one or the other. Football is thought, imagined and played.

I am worried about the football that is played in Brazil, with many spaces between the sectors, with many long balls and crosses into the area, with the excess of matches, with so many bad pitches, like Mineirão and Maracanã, in addition to so many tumultuous games on and off the field.

I am concerned about so many clichés, repetitions, ready-made comments and useless statistics – many others are essential. Some nice commentators love to call up players for the national team. Athletes and coaches quickly go from heroes to villains.

I am concerned with the country’s ever-increasing radicalization, with the lack of ethics and public immorality that have plagued Brazil for some time, with the inability to unite development and environmental protection, with the neglect to quickly solve the extremely serious problem of basic sanitation, a disgrace, with half of the houses without treated water and sewers.

I’m worried about the future of Brazilian football. I’m afraid that history tells us that in Brazil, land of the eternal King Pelé, a time when the world stopped to see Brazilian players perform, little by little it turns into ordinary football, because of disorganization, incompetence, greed and optimists. prepotent. In addition, European football has evolved and Brazil has lagged behind.

We need to evolve. We cannot get used to dominance in South American club football, although this is not always the case. In addition, the Argentines and Uruguayans are the current world champions of national teams in the main and under-20 categories. The future is not destiny. The future is what will be built.

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