What was expected of the Brazilian team against Morocco? – 03/26/2023 – Juca Kfouri

There are more mysteries between the midfield and the goalposts than the vain philosophy of critics can imagine.

The revamped Brazilian team traveled to Morocco to face the fourth-placed team in the last World Cup and 65,000 fans maddened by the possibility of defeating the five-time world champions.

Yes, the five-time world champions!

A good part of the world still treats Brazilian football that way, almost like our specialists who seem not to have understood the glories of the past as they are the glories of the past: of the past.

Because the present and recent times are of a team that doesn’t make it past the quarterfinals in World Cups and when it does, it takes seven in the semifinals.

Who loses the Copa América at Maracanã and becomes a stairway to the Argentine epic and the sanctification of Lionel Messi, while the national idol has golden talent, but clay head, torso and limbs.

All critics were able, before the confrontation with the Moroccans, to coldly consider them favorites.

All it took was for the ball to start rolling for, consciously or unconsciously, to demand victory over an opponent of less status, because, after all, the yellow jersey is five-time world champion. Five-time champion!

Now, Vinicius Júnior, the biggest star among those summoned by the interim coach Ramon Menezes, had not completed two years when Ronaldos and Rivaldo’s Brazil defeated the Germans in Japan and lifted the cup for the fifth time.

Some were not even born, like Arthur, Robert Renan, André, Andrey, Vítor Roque and Mycael.

The oldest of them, the Weverton government, was a teenager, he was 14 years old, he probably already dreamed of being Marcos, but he only dreamed.

Then the expected score happens, Morocco wins 2-1 by scoring two goals when the Brazilians even played better and the disappointment is dressed with an air of surprise.

How much longer are we going to take to digest the simple reality of being in the middle block of world football today? That Croatia has done better in the last two Cups, runners-up in 2018 and third in 22?

How many times do we have to remember that our last world champion club celebrated the title more than ten years ago, exactly 11 to be precise? And that in that period, often no Brazilian even made it to the decision and there were even those who bitter the fourth place?

Ladies and gentlemen, rare readers, it’s been a while since we stopped being the kings of the black coconut in terms of football.

Because we became exporters of manpower, because real estate speculation ended the floodplains, because beach soccer started to have hours, because progress and globalization scrapped our management model and we are only now waking up to this, because until today we haven’t we have a league of clubs, because our football enriched a bunch of scoundrels and made the CBF the Casa Bandida do Futebol, even with the complacency of those who today complain that we are in the existential cesspool we are in.

Please, it’s not Rony’s fault, capable of moving selflessness, sorry for the heresy, the man from Pará who recalls the bravery of Pernambuco native Vavá, two-time world champion in Sweden and Chile.

Flávio Costa, famous coach of the 1950 World Cup, said that “Brazilian football only evolved from the mouth of the tunnel into the field”.

Seventy years later, it can be said that time has stopped.

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