First of all, it must be said that Botafogo’s phase is so good that the club didn’t even lose the Club World Cup. Courtesy of FIFA-mom.
The entity decided to change, at least this year, the name of the tournament to the Intercontinental Cup. So the new Intercontinental Cup is the old Club World Cup, which was previously called… Intercontinental Cup, but FIFA changed it at the time (was it FIFA with the sign of Gemini?). There was also the glorious period when the nickname was Copa Toyota, good times.
And all this so that no one confuses this little fubanga tournament with the incredible 2025 Club World Cup, which, in this case, FIFA has also dubbed the Club World Cup.
This humble scribe believes that mother FIFA should take some study from a renowned journalist and unify the champions of the aforementioned competitions with the Ramón de Carranza Trophy. There are a lot of Brazilian clubs that would be in favor.
This World Cup…, sorry, the Intercontinental only serves nowadays to insult the Brazilian teams that should be celebrating winning the Libertadores. Instead, the booze is suspended so that everyone can embarrass themselves internationally and return for a more discreet celebration, swapping the imported whiskey for a non-alcoholic drink.
Botafogo had about three days to celebrate their national and continental titles before becoming an online laughing stock due to their defeat to the intrepid Pachuca. It’s very unfair. Not to mention they made the team travel on a New England Patriots fubanga (I liked writing “fubanga”) plane — why do you think Tom Brady left there? The only thing they didn’t answer was why the cast of billionaire João Textinho’s team had to travel on a borrowed plane.
For those who are not Mexican and stopped paying attention, Pachuca continues to recover in life and, after going through Putfire, eliminated Al Ahly, from Egypt, on penalties, after a non-exciting 0-0 — Al Ahly, in fact, it is one of Palmeiras’ great global rivals and the two have an appointment at the Club World Cup, the “Super World Cup”, in 2025.
This Wednesday (18), Pachuca plays the Inter-anything final against Real Madrid, who have just arrived in Qatar and need to play quickly before returning to Spain to play the most important match of the week, Sunday (22) , against Sevilla.
It is likely that the Champions League champion will not use his recently signed Mbappé and will have to form an attack with just Vini Jr., Rodrygo and Bellingham. Maybe about a few minutes even for Endrick — who should be a starter and will be hungry.
However, for this scribe, mother FIFA unintentionally helped teams from the rest of the world with this new regulation. What was supposed to be a treat for the European giant could be an unexpected helping hand for the poor non-European.
Let me explain: now Europeans no longer have an adaptation period. It involves arriving in Qatar, which is further away than Jacarepaguá, making a departure and returning to the plane.
If the team is a little out of sync, it could go wrong.
This is how Pachuca eliminated Botafogo, completely “lost in translation” in the quarter-final match. And, in football, lightning strikes in the same place several times.
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