“Penalty is so important that it should be charged by the club president.”
This phrase, belonging to the folklore of football, would have been delivered by Neném Plancha (1906-1976), famous wardrobe, masseuse and scout from Botafogo in the last century.
It was later known that Neném never spoke such a sentence, being a creation of someone, perhaps coach and journalist João Saldanha, and that once questioned, he said, “What I said is that the penalty is so easy that even the president can hit.”
May the say Leila Pereira, president of Palmeiras.
She has been a while, viralized a video in which she, outraged by the inability of the players to convert the penalties, looking at the camera shot: “The goal is too big. How can you lose penalty?
So Leila hits two penalties, without any strength. The goalkeeper/mascot lets the ball come in, and Leila celebrates, jumping effusively: “Yes. Yes”. Caricatus.
Just over three years ago, I published a text in which, considering the penalty shootout from 2011 to 2021 of 28 major clubs in world football, Palmeiras was the 27th in success, ahead only of River Plate.
After that, Alviverde Paulistano participated in four penalties decisions and lost three.
Leila was right to complain. Still has. Earlier this month, the young Stephen, revelation of the team, missed a penalty that would give the victory against Archirrival Corinthians in Paulistan.
Palmeiras aside, the penalty is a disintegrating character in football. Why?
I must agree with a boardnown when the analyzed item is ease. There is no easiest way to score a goal in the penalty football.
The ball is just 11 meters from the goal line, which measures 7.32 m wide by 2.44 m high. The goalkeeper can only move to try the defense after the collector kicks.
Therefore, for the huge chance to score, many players want to charge penalties. Some even fight with their teammates themselves, verbally and/or in the imposition (taking the ball and not releasing it at all), to have the right to kick.
It is not uncommon to have conflict, regardless of the ball stops on the networks. In the beginning of the year, some cases caught the eye.
Here in Brazil, in Corinthians vs Velo Club, for the Paulista Championship, Romero did not allow Yuri Alberto, Timão’s official scout, charging. The Paraguayan wasted. After the game, he took indirect from Yuri, who mentioned the “ego” on social network. Conflict.
At Champions League, in the game in Italy where Atalanta lost 3-1 of Belgian Bruggge and was eliminated, Nigerian Lookman wasted a penalty, which should have been charged by another player in the opinion of the coach.
Gian Piero Gasperini released the verb, stating that the attacker is “one of the worst penalty collectors I saw in life”, in reference to the use in training. Conflict.
In the Italian Championship, Udinese visited Lecce and won from 1-0, penalty converted by Lorenzo Lucca, who could only kick after vehement altercation with teammates – who usually hits Captain, Florian Thauvin.
Lucca celebrated alone, and the situation was so uncomfortable that German coach Kosta Runjaić immediately replaced him – 35 minutes from the first half. Conflict.
Until when converted, the penalty brings discord.
Because it is so paradoxical, it is better than the incumbency is even from the president of the club. Especially because no one in their right mind will create conflict with him.
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