The team reestablishes ties with the fans – 03/27/2024 – Juca Kfouri

The Portuguese team had been unbeaten for 11 games and with 100% success since the last World Cup.

They lost to Slovenia 2-0 on Tuesday (26) with Cristiano Ronaldo on the field.

World champion Argentina, without Lionel Messi, suffered against Costa Rica, who are in Brazil’s group at the Copa América — and who played a very tough game against the national team at the 1990 World Cup, 1-0, in Italy, soft in 2002, 5-2, in South Korea, and very tough in 2018, in Russia, 2-0, with the goals only coming in stoppage time.

The Argentines ran the risk of collapsing on a fabulous night from PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas, and had to turn the friendly match they lost in the first half back to 3-1, before massacring them in the second half.

Winning football games is not easy for anyone.

If with VAR it is already difficult, without it it is not only worse but also causes outrage.

Spain even played better than Brazil in the 3-3 draw, but if it hadn’t been for the whistle blower, without VAR, the score would have been 3-1 for the Canarinhos, who scored all their goals without anyone’s help — or better, the first of them given by the Spanish goalkeeper, which is from the game.

The two penalties scored and converted against Brazil, on the other hand, were so scandalous that even the Spanish sports newspaper Marca, far from striving for balance, considered the refereeing “disgraceful” and called the awarding of the penalties “obscene”.

Once again, the star of the boy Endrick, the 17-year-old Palmeiras native, shone, overshadowed only by that of the even younger Lamine Yamal, the 16-year-old Barcelona boy.

Dorival Júnior returns with two good results in his debut as a CBF coach and two bad statements about violence against women and the violence of racism.

It will be great if he takes the “if” out of his vocabulary: “If there were crimes” wow, Dorival!

He also returns with the certainty that his goalkeeper Bento is a great competitor for Ederson and Alisson, as well as with the confirmation that Beraldo is a great defender and that the attack should be equal to that of the future Real Madrid trio: Rodrygo, Endrick and Vinicius Junior.

There is no shortage of options in the midfield, such as Lucas Paquetá, very good at Wembley, not so much at the Santiago Bernabéu, Andreas Pereira, good at both, as well as a number of good players.

With no one to compare, it is a fact, to the Englishman Jude Bellingham, the Spanish Rodri or the Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, to name two stars faced by the Brazilian team during their time in London and Madrid and another who is also a world reference, such as the veterans Croatian Luka Modric, 38, and German Toni Kroos, 34.

The deficiencies on both sides and the need to support Vini’s suffering are clear, as he is about to lose the joy of playing the game, because he has a superhuman burden on his shoulders.

All added and subtracted, the two performances in Europe had the power to bring the team closer to the fans.

They didn’t even need to be exuberant, which the short training time and the many absences wouldn’t allow.

It was enough to show a minimum of organization and a lot of obstinacy to renew the hope that, tomorrow, the country will be able to once again have a team to support with pleasure, capable of dissociating itself from what the three letters of the shield on the team’s shirt mean, a curse that insists on remaining, goes in, goes out.

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