From time to time, I sit down to write my spine and I don’t know what to say. I use the memory and the association of ideas, one of the ways of functioning the human mind. But for this, it is necessary to have an initial subject, a trigger to develop the text.
I often remember the coaches, important characters in football. They are increasingly scholars and have the help of scientific and specialized technical committees. The game is progressively more programmed. They want to turn it into a scheduled card game. The risk of losing the mysteries, unpredictability, beauty and emotion is at risk.
Sometimes analyst coaches, including me, instead of using knowledge to see and understand the decisive details of a soccer match, do the opposite, use the decisive details and the end results in an attempt to find an explanation.
As was expected, Real Madrid, with their exceptional strikers found facilities against the fragile defense of Manchester City, eliminated from Champions League. Rodrygo, with each game, becomes one of the great strikers of world football.
Shortly after the match, Guardiola, downcast, tense, avoided commenting on technical and tactical details about the game. Me and thousands of people, who have delighted in recent times with the beautiful, collective and efficient football of City, are sad about the team’s fall. Who knows, a new great team arises, which can be City Himself, with the characteristics of the English team that have enchanted us?
In addition to the bruises and exits of important players, the reduction of ball possession and the ability to quickly recover it, defensive fragility and other technical and tactical details, there should be other reasons for the fall of the team. Defeats lead to a decrease in trust and the loss of confidence lead to more defeats, generating a negative cycle that is perpetuated.
Did the long period of great victorious display provoked in the collective unconscious of players and coach, a arrogance, an exaggerated feeling of self -esteem?
Was it time for Guardiola to rest, take a sabbatical year to enjoy other pleasures of life? Was it the time to rethink football and reinvent themselves? Only he knows and can decide.
Freud, in one of his analytical work, showed that many people who built a great success, had huge personal and financial falls, sometimes sudden, because of a sense of guilt, conscious or unconscious, because they were not deserving of what they had conquered. They started to have actions against themselves. Freud called them “ruined by success.”
Synthetic lawns
The only reason there are so many synthetic lawns in Brazilian football is financial. Clubs rent the stadiums, often, by high values, which would greatly impair the natural lawns. In Europe, there are no synthetic lawns because natural lawns are excellent and for the concern with the technical quality of the game. Congratulations to the Brazilian players who have protested the synthetic lawns, as long as they also protest against the huge number of poor natural lawns.
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