Real Madrid won another trophy, and the fragile Pachuca took the honor of being the second best team on five continents.
And truth?
Of course the second part is a lie.
The so-called Intercontinental Cup lost its meaning in the face of the Club World Cup, to be played next year, and the proof of this is in the fact that, while a Mexican team was competing in the FIFA tournament in Qatar, the final of the national championship was played in two games.
Now, what would Pachuca do if he had qualified for the domestic championship decision? Would you scale reservations?
To avoid facing the issue, the club from Pachuca de Soto, a city 100 kilometers from the capital and with less than 300,000 inhabitants, came 16th in the local tournament and traveled to eliminate the Brazilian and South American champions, as well as the Egyptian champions. and Africans.
With what he had the supreme honor of serving as a supporting player for the madridistas, they only lost 3-0 and with dignity.
I’m R
Vinicius Júnior is the first Brazilian to win the FIFA award without having the R at the beginning of his name.
Until then, Ronaldos, Romário, Rivaldo and Kaká, the only white man called Ricardo, had won.
How important is this?
Strictly none.
It’s just a curiosity.
It is important to see Ronaldo Fenômeno’s candidacy for the presidency of the CBF begin at an overwhelming pace, with Globo, with the STF, with everything.
IT’S ON THE SCOREBOARD
Placar magazine will turn 55 years old next March and has received a gift worthy of its history directed by Ricardo Corrêa, who worked there as an office boy, top photographer and editorial director: the documentary “Placar, a militant magazine”, presented at the Football Museum last Tuesday (17).
Thanks to the participation of this writer, rare reader, keep an eye out because it’s worth seeing.
Placar, even in the days when Veja sold more than a million copies weekly, was always the best-known Brazilian magazine around the world.
For the simple reason that Brazil was an unimportant country on the international stage and Placar covered the most successful football on Planeta Bola.
Roberto Civita, the owner of Editora Abril who published it, hated having to acknowledge it, but that was how it happened.
Whoever is fortunate enough to see the doc. you will understand why.
In the dark times of the Brazilian dictatorship, Placar fought the good fight and circumvented censorship, as even the generals at the time feared the ridiculousness of inspecting a football magazine.
Thus, Placar denounced the Sports Lottery Mafia supported by Caixa Econômica Federal, exposed the violence in the basements by exposing that on the lawns and stands, in addition to supporting Democracia Corinthiana and Diretas Já.
Without allowing it, combative as it always was, as it had a side without hypocrisy, the challenge to the lights against the darkness.
Or would it make sense, for example, that in the Second World War, a Democratic outlet would open space to criticize Winston Churchill?
Anyone who lived through those times will understand what this is all about.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
The column goes on vacation and promises to return rested on January 19th to face the grueling state championships.
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