Vinícius Júnior’s game – 06/17/2023 – Juca Kfouri

In black, like never before, the Brazilian team protested against racism. There are those who think it was wrong to hold the friendly match against Guinea exactly in the country where Vinícius Júnior has received the most sordid persecution. But confronting racism with pride may be the best attitude.

Barcelona saw only one training session between the third placed in the FIFA ranking against the 79th, with a view to the game on Tuesday (20), in Lisbon, against Senegal, in 18th place.

In black like never before or in yellow, as always, the practice only served to win, also because if it tied or lost, it would be better to close the tavern.

Winning 4-1 at Espanyol’s stadium, as I wanted and the way I wanted, but against an opponent so fragile that it prevents any conclusion, except that Raphael Veiga, who played for a few minutes, deserves to start against Senegal in place of Lucas Paquetá, to give the shine that we haven’t seen in the national team’s midfield for years.

Vinícius Júnior had space to put on a private show, he scored one of the goals from a penalty kick, and the rout will forever be remembered as “Vinicius Júnior’s game”, something that Neymar, for example, with so many years in the national team, never had and probably never will.

See Modric

Croatia and Spain decide the League of Nations and present those who like football with another opportunity to see the Croatian Luka Modric, aged 37, parade the increasingly rare art among midfielders at Planeta Bola.

respect football

Amid the scandal of manipulation of football matches across the country, here is the campaign of ten bookmakers, and a so-called National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), founded last March, preaching respect for the most popular sport in the world and asking for the regulation of gambling.

Typical hypocritical and cynical attitude because for five years these same houses, headquartered abroad, swam without paying taxes in Brazil, stamped their brands on 19 of the 20 shirts of Serie A clubs and sponsored 11 out of ten sports programs in the most diverse platforms.

Faced with the inevitability of regulation undertaken by the government, they now act like good guys willing to put a lock on the broken door.

There is only one way to give credibility to the campaign: collect the taxes that have not been paid for half a decade.

It is estimated that, in 2022 alone, R$ 6.4 billion was not raised!

Autonomy is not sovereignty

Traumatized by the authoritarian intervention for decades by the old CND, the National Sports Council, the result of the Getulist dictatorship during the Estado Novo period, the constituents of 1988 made a mistake in granting autonomy to sports entities.

Autonomy became a veritable no man’s land, corruption scandals followed one another in both the CBF and the COB, to name only the two largest confederations — because CBB, CBV, CBDA, CBAt, CBJ, basketball, volleyball, water sports, athletics, judo , almost all also lived in the police news.

Not even a unanimous decision by the STF, with former minister Cezar Peluso as rapporteur, in the sense that autonomy is not synonymous with sovereignty, greatly altered the state of affairs.

Now, by sanctioning the General Sports Law, the government vetoed a malicious article that reinforced the idea of ​​absolute autonomy, which it did very well.

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