Botafogo made a magnificent recovery campaign in the Libertadores — which began with a narrowly avoided elimination in the group stage and culminated in a 3-1 victory in the decision played all the time, and then some, with ten players.
Artur Jorge revealed the unrestricted confidence he has in the team by not substituting to compensate for Gegore’s expulsion, although he considered adding Danilo Barbosa, promptly called to warm up before the first minute of the decision, the first, and in the sixth edition, which ended with a difference greater than one goal since, in 2019, it started to be played in a single game.
Like fellow countrymen Jorge Jesus and Abel Ferreira, Portuguese Artur Jorge Torres Gomes Araújo Amorim, born in 1972, two years after the tri, made history in football as a five-time world champion.
He could be called Artur Amorim, Artur Gomes or Artur Torres and he preferred not to have a surname to be included like so many other foreigners in the encyclopedia of our football.
As sport loves to play tricks, with the alarming 0-0 in Belo Horizonte against the same Atlético Mineiro with ten players, which caused so much concern, and so many doubts placed on Botafogo’s ability in the final stretch of the Brazilian Championship, the Lusitanian gave payback with interest in the continental final.
The next challenge is equally monumental, no longer from Núñez, but at Beira-Rio.
Facing Inter with the best campaign in the second round of the Brasileirão after the happy hangover for the unprecedented title, overcoming the complex of being the only one from Rio without the South American victory, and the only one of the 12 biggest clubs in Brazil until last November 30th without the called eternal glory, will be an almost superhuman task this Wednesday (4).
Nobody doubts that Botafogo can do it anymore.
If you can’t, be patient, the season is over.
And Artur Jorge will forever be bestial.
On the other side, Gabriel Milito.
He had 90 minutes to register his name, Gabriel Alejandro Milito, as the first Argentine to be champion of the Libertadores with a Brazilian club.
Born in 1980, two years before the so-called Tragedy of Sarriá, Gabriel Alejandro (?) became a beast.
Sacrosanct injustice!
If what everyone on Planeta Bola predicts happens, with Galo imposing himself with one more player without Artur Jorge making an immediate substitution, it would be Milito who was the beast, the one who held Glorioso with one less and defeated him with the advantage.
More: if Vargas, the scorer of the I believe goal, 1-2, in his second minute on the Buenos Aires pitch, had taken advantage of the two other very clear opportunities he had to turn the score around, in addition to Mariano’s excellent performance, also coming from bank, and its name would echo through the open veins of Latin America, through Minas Gerais, and from Monte Caburaí to Arroio do Chuí.
Milito took Galo to two World Cup finals and is only seen as the one who lost both. It is true?
There are those who prefer to stay in the middle of the road rather than lose at the end, so as not to get frustrated. Matter of taste.
Whether Artur Jorge will remain in the country, or will be seduced by proposals that will certainly come from abroad, is a question that the next few days will answer.
Milito’s fate, listening to the Atletico outcry, seems sealed.
From beast to beast, just one jump, one goal to go.
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