The new old war at CBF – 12/14/2023 – Juca Kfouri

Those banned from football by FIFA, Ricardo Teixeira, Rico Terra and Marco Polo “who doesn’t travel” Del Nero are in the news again because they dream of returning to call the shots in the dirty game of the Casa Bandida do Futebol.

They take advantage of the moment of weakness of Ednaldo Rodrigues, the Bahian on the verge of demoralizing the saying that in his land “donkeys are born dead”, and look for a new figurehead who will reestablish the benefits they enjoyed until they saw the source dry up.

Rodrigues turned off the taps, but exposed the Brazilian team to a bad campaign in the qualifiers, neglected the referees to the point of demoralizing the VAR, scored zero in the organization of the game against Argentina at Maracanã and, afraid of the shadows, isolated himself.

Not satisfied, he installed spying equipment in the CBF bunker, encouraged divisions to reign, and surrounded himself with new old figures from the football court, such as an heir of the Zveiters with a sad memory, Flavio, and added others such as the disciple of the ancient folklore president of the Rio de Janeiro federation Caixa D’Água, Pedro Trengouse.

Suddenly the president discovered that the serpentarium of Barra da Tijuca has nothing to do with the evil of Farol da Barra and found himself surrounded by opposing and conflicting interests.

Zveiter wanted more and abandoned ship to join the fifth column, not knowing for sure whether he should serve the CBF or the clubs in the attempt, doomed to become a soap opera, for the League.

Trengouse, an expert in being close to power, dances to the music and enriches his CV with titles for English to watch.

Rodrigues could have achieved the best average attendance in the most balanced Brazilian Championship of all time, even though the CBF has little to do with fan attendance, and was unable to do so.

Suspicious even of the shadow, he promised interviews that he never gave without understanding that through them he would reveal the bad deeds discovered in the administrations of his predecessors.

Perhaps the old law of silence prevailed, to which all those who know what each person did last summer are subject to.

The issue that led the Court to remove him from office involves more his loneliness than technical issues of the Judiciary, although, between us, the change in the weight of the votes of the state federations is, in itself, a scandal: know the rare reader and the rare reader that the vote of the Brasília federation has a weight of 3 and that of Flamengo only 2.

With this, the 27 state federations, which you can call Hereditary Captaincies, ensure a majority against the 40 clubs in series A and B, the first 20 with weight 2 and the remaining 20 with weight 1.

Time and space are wasted whenever the subject comes up again, for which the column apologizes at this time when Fluminense will compete in the Club World Cup, in which the Premier League is on fire, the Champions League is starting to heat up and little Girona is leading the Spanish Championship.

In short, they are our things, as the immortal Noel Rosa sang.

As we are experiencing the sacrosanct Christmas spirit, let’s go off on a delicate tangent to attribute the return of those who should never have arrived to the sugar that sweetens the chair of the CBF president.

We’ve had it all there: rampant corruption, sexual and moral harassment, unlimited incompetence, and even a good citizen, conservative it is true, but competent and unblemished: her name was Giulite Coutinho.

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