Vasco’s goal against Palmeiras was badly annulled – 08/30/2023 – Juca Kfouri

Vasco’s annulled goal in the game against Palmeiras revealed once again how indignation against refereeing errors is a mere demonstration of selfishness and inconsistency.

The harmed screams in the four corners and the beneficiary is silent in deafening silence.

It’s like that in every club, from ABC to Zenit — from Natal to St. Petersburg.

Imagine the scene, the rare reader and the rare reader: in a hypothetical clash between the Potiguar team and the Russian team, the Russians have a goal annulled due to millimetric offside, impossible to be observed with the naked eye, the move continues because the linesman lacks eyes with X-rays, the ball kicked by a defender from Rio Grande do Norte is too much for an opposing striker who scores a great goal from outside the area, against a goalkeeper, on top of that, for the national team and at his home.

There is an explosion of happiness in the visiting team, which, by the way, is fighting a persistent crisis.

Behold, the X-ray team, also called VAR in modern football, activates its sensitive mechanisms to see, insensitive to look, and warns the whistle blower that there is an irregularity in the move, that the tip of the attacker’s boot in the play before the goal was ahead of the penultimate rival defender.

The goal is cancelled.

Neither the VAR nor the blower realized that the goal was born after a rebound, from another moment, initiator of a new progress in the fight.

The referee misses twice.

In the first, because the chanca beak —that’s how the boot was called in the days of grassroots football— cannot be an argument to go against the spirit of the offside rule, which punishes those who take advantage of being ahead. In the second, because the goal was born again, which makes the previous game played.

The protests of the aggrieved are immediate, loud, fair and opportunistic.

The beneficiary’s silence is perpetual, it sounds even louder, unfair and incoherent.

Whoever lost and shouted has already won a thousand times in the same way and shut up.

Who won and shut up has already lost a thousand times in the same way and screamed.

If at least in the defeats suspicions were not raised about the authors of the failures, everything would be for them.

But not.

It’s like accusing the system, of angry and veiled imputations, that everyone is naked in the face of the selfishness and inconsistency of each one: little flour, my mush first.

This is how humanity walks in its historic march by taking advantage of everything.

Principles be damned, justice be damned, pepper in the eyes of others is refreshment.

After all, who is capable of acting against their own interest?

They are few, believe me, but they exist.

One day, hopefully, they will be a majority and the world will be better.

Because without utopias everything is even worse.

For the time being, the exploited hiss and the herd passes by.

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THE WITCH OF LA PLATE

The unbelievable happened to Estudiantes in the Copa Sudamericana, the spell of the witch Cássio and the goalposts.

Argentines have reason to believe in the popular saying attributed to the Galicians “I don’t believe in brujas, but what las hay, las hay” and, sorry rare reader, changing the sex of witches.

A team hitting the posts six times in the same decisive game is something supernatural and worthy of the record book, although there are records of the same occurrence, as in Germany’s victory over Kazakhstan, in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, by 4 to 1, with six balls on the crossbar.

But Germany thrashed and Estudiantes fell.

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