Get the neighborhood kids together for a soccer game, 11 against 11. Throw the shirts with numbers 1 to 11, so that each fighting participant gets one. The dispute, fierce, will be to be with the number 10.
Eternalized by Pelé in Santos and the Brazilian National Team, shirt 10 is the noblest, the most desired, the dear. And not just for the kids. The greatest, whether youth or professionalized ones, too want it.
This is valid for the star already consolidated as such, or for the one who considers himself a star even without being, or for the one who aspires to be ace, whether or not he has the potential to be.
Neymar, 33, say so. Back in Brazil, he arrived in Santos with the season started, with the Paulista Championship in progress. He claimed shirt 10, which he has been wearing in clubs since leaving Barcelona in 2017, 10 was from Lionel Messi – and was naturally attended to.
In Alvinegro Praiano, there was no credit with her, striker Guilherme, 29, scorer of the team, who had to be content to have the number 11 on his back.
This week, she reverberated the “relegation” of Argentine Rodrigo Garro, 27, a skilled Corinthians midfielder, who lost her 10 shirt to Dutch striker Memphis Depay, 30.
The European arrived at Alvinegro Paulistano in September 2024, after the South American, who landed in Brazil in January last year. Garro started with 16 and took over 10 shortly thereafter, with the departure of the Paraguayan Fiasco Club Matías Rojas.
But Memphis’s agreement with Corinthians predicted that he, from 2025, would be entitled to 10 – so far he has dressed 94 (1994 is his year of birth).
Argalia for those in his luggage two World Cups (2014 and 2022), he was holder of the Dutch national team until the middle of last year – after no longer summoned – and has played for Barcelona and Manchester United.
Garro, with tickets for the Institute of Cordoba and Talleres, was never called to the Argentine team.
The midfielder, who received the 8 Corinthian shirt (until then with the midfielder Charles), showed discontent for losing 10. She shouldn’t, if she knew the staff’s story.
Although the number 10 has a whole worldwide mystique in football – priest of Pelé, in World Cup, 1954, Puskás used the shirt 10, then displayed by Maradona, Zico, Baggio, Platini and the aforementioned Messi, among others Supercracks – and from the idols Rivellino and Neto have been owned by him for a while, the 8 has, for Corinthians, an unparalleled value.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Socrates Brazilian Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, who left us in 2011, paraded in midfield his refined, elegant football, with touches of heel that enchanted and missed, with 8 from alvinegro.
Doctor Socrates is possibly the biggest idol in the Corinthian nation, being also considered one of the best 8 shirts in football history, in a list that includes Iniesta (Barcelona icon and Spanish hero in the 2010 World Cup) and Gerson, the Golden left -handed , world champion with Brazil in 1970 and idol of Flamengo, Botafogo and São Paulo.
Garro got a gift. You must thank, and not be dissatisfied, for having the honor of being wearing 8. And to get up to honor her at the time of the Magrão.
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