The unprecedented Brazilian Cup is a reward for the persistent São Paulo fan – 09/24/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The players are to be congratulated, the coach deserves all the praise, but, and not as an adversarial conjunction, the big winner is the São Paulo player who never got tired of filling Morumbi until he let out the scream stuck in his throat for so many years without being champion. really valuable tournament.

As in Brazil the Copa do Brasil is celebrated almost as if it were the Brazilian Championship, the queue ended, the fast ended on the second day of spring 2023, on São Paulo’s 23rd participation in the dispute for the cup.

Sunday to enter the history of the most successful football club in the country, with all the honors, in addition to being the youngest among the 12 so-called greats, the only one not yet a centenarian.

Nines apart from the controversy about being or not being the most popular, which ignores the obvious fact that Morumbi has almost twice as many fans as it does, for example, in Itaquera, those who supported the epic were those excluded from the grand final party, unable to be there. in the stands due to the extortionate price of tickets.

A week away from turning 63, the stadium had an unforgettable afternoon, a shame with the color black almost exclusively on both kits, in a country whose majority is not white.

Not on the lawn. A balance between blacks and whites prevailed.

The strength and energy to crown Calleri and company’s efforts came more from Paraisópolis, the community neighboring the stadium, than from the traditional mansions in the region.

The so-called Clube da Fé had in its favor the electricity of people who have believed for years that if it wasn’t last year it will be this year, as it ended up being.

And what explains giving so much weight to the Copa do Brasil?

Well, it’s worth a place in the Libertadores, the most beloved trophy for tricolor aficionados, and won in a knockout stage, always more exciting, with the bonus of having overcome their biggest rival, Corinthians, the second most traditional opponent, Palmeiras, and, as a bonus, the millionaire Flamengo. A more perfect itinerary impossible.

It had to be with drama, of course.

Starting with Rafael’s save at Pedro’s feet before the first minute.

Then by losing Arboleda injured in seven minutes and coming up behind, in the 44th minute, with a goal from Bruno Henrique; they almost missed out on a 2-0 score that would have been fatal, only to equalize five minutes later with Rodrigo Nestor’s great goal, one that would wash the soul.

The suffocating heat of 36ºC in the shade prevented the first half of the decision from being played at speed.

The second, and final, would also be played slowly, but at a different pace, dying, as if there were no tomorrow.

Tomorrow, rare São Paulo reader and rare São Paulo reader, is today, Monday (25), the day to paint the country in three colors.

Because São Paulo took the regulations, put them under their arms and decreed that there would be no game, although they took a risk here, another there, nothing very dramatic, because the opponent is an archipelago made up of 11 islands, incapable of forming a Nation , collective.

The tricolor wall was based on a joint effort in which each person knew what they had to do for the other.

Dorival Júnior wins the cup for the second time in a row, the third in his career, and will silently enjoy revenge against Flamengo’s arrogant president, Rodolfo Landim, who gave up on him after winning the Copa do Brasil and Libertadores.

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