Tostão: In the middle of the road there is great loneliness – 05/27/2023 – Tostão

Impunity increases crime. Thankfully, the Spanish league, FIFA, sports federations and governments have realized the gravity of racism and homophobia in football and have announced tough measures to curb criminal prejudice. I hope these behaviors are not temporary. The strong and remarkable revolt of Vinicius Junior could become a milestone in this fight.

Apart from that, we live in a time of spectacularization in the world, of exaggeration, of greater appreciation of speeches and theatrical and media gestures than of truth and reality. It is the world of narratives, a buzzword that almost always means nothing.

In football, all it takes is a beautiful move, a sparkle, a winning goal, for an ordinary player to be treated like a star. We also cannot miss the reference that the quality of the game played in Brazil is much lower than that of the great European teams.

Many of the main players who play in the country have already gone abroad and returned because they no longer have spaces in the best teams. There are exceptions. Some did not stand out for other, non-technical reasons. There are also young people who shine in Brazil and have great chances of becoming world stars.

Flamengo’s current team has nothing to do with what it enchanted years ago. Many players have shone in other periods of their careers and still remain with great prestige. Palmeiras, which today has a starting lineup and a squad superior to that of Flamengo, has athletes who shine for what they play, not for what they were.

Corinthians has players to perform better than they have been doing. Luxemburgo has been trying to fix the defensive system first with the lineup of two lines of four very low, which do not advance when the team recovers the ball.

The two attackers are very isolated, far from the other eight line athletes. Róger Guedes tries to fill this huge void, retreating to his middle, and gets lost along the way. In the middle of the path there is great loneliness. A great loneliness exists in the middle of the path.

More than players, coaches are treated as heroes in victories and villains in defeats. As if they were primarily responsible for everything that happens on the pitch. In addition to this overvaluation of technicians, there is an obsession with finding a single reason that explains everything.

Speaking of coaches, how long will the CBF wait for Ancelotti’s response? Does he want to coach the Brazilian national team or not? It is said that if he does not accept the invitation, he will be another foreign coach. Among the most highly rated Portuguese, I prefer Abel Ferreira, who will certainly change his aggressive behavior during matches.

I won’t see any problems if I’m a Brazilian coach. There are several good ones. I disagree with the opinion that Brazil was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the last two World Cups because of some mistakes made by Tite.

Against Belgium, in the 2018 World Cup, it would have been the move of defender Miranda to the left, to mark Lukaku, allowing De Bruyne to arrive in the middle to finish. The merits went to Belgium and its ace.

In the game against Croatia, the problems would have been the substitution of Vinicius Junior during the match and the fact that the coach did not make a break at the end when Brazil was winning by 1-0. I think it was a succession of accidents and wrong choices made by some players during the ball’s path from one area to another.

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