It starts… or as the narrators of the games in streaming and youtube would say, comééééçaa another edition of the prestigious Brazilian Championship. And with him begins another season of the bloody Round 38, the great sticker of coaches of our dear football.
Of the 20 teachers duly employed and radiant in round 1, there were 11 Brazilians, even last year’s number. In addition to them, four Argentines, as in 2024, and one more Portuguese, totaling five by 2025.
By not having the immortal wingspan or genius of Ruy Castro, this scribe will not list the 20 names, but we will talk a lot about all the colleagues over the 38 rounds.
Two considerations: 1) Let’s include the Leonardo Jardim Mister, born in Venezuela, as Portuguese (was created and made a career with Lusos friends); 2) Last year, the account had 19 names, as Cuiabá had started that championship wisely with an interim and is now interim in Serie B. Perfect Plan.
And why did I use the verb in the past by referring to 11 Brazilian teachers at the beginning of the text? Because it’s not 11 more.
As in those films in which they kill the friend of the good guy even before the initial credits, we have already lost our first hero when Round 1 was still underway: Mano Menezes, who found that no one is Man of anyone in Fluminense, is no longer among us. He was sworn after defeat to Fortaleza in Castelão – that fashion does not take, or there will be many to lose their heads there. We will only be with the memory of Mano’s beautiful tattoos (which I didn’t even see).
With the preview of Mano, we have 19 survivors: Brazilians 10 x 9 foreigners.
In season 2024, we had an incredible mark of six survivors, who stayed in their clubs in the 38 rounds: three Brazilians (Rogério Ceni, Renato Gaúcho and Claudio Tencati) and three gringos (Artur Jorge, Abel Ferreira and Juan Pablo Vojvoda). We also had coach Roger Machado, present from start to finish, but for two different teams.
From the group above, three rosts continue in the same place in edition 2025: Abel (Palmeiras), Vojvoda (Fortaleza) and Ceni (Bahia) – and Roger remains at Inter.
Observing the behavior of the fans with some teachers and that visceral mood in post-game interviews, I do not foresee so many survivors in 2025-at the most, at most. The guillotine will work.
Also because this year’s LinkedIn list of those who are waiting for a vacancy is robust. There are people with São Paulo title in the curriculum (Crespo), star of Futevôlei (Renato Gaúcho) and a little group of WhatsApp that only increases from former CBF employees (Mano gave permission to Dorival to enter).
One of Twitter’s most curious pseudonoticia on Sunday said that “Jorge Sampaoli agrees to listen to the Fluminense project”; And someone commented, “just need to warn Fluminense.”
This humble scribe would like to suggest an application for leaders and technicians along the lines of Tinder. Sampaoli, in this case, is distributing “match” around, but no one has returned.
After Sao Paulo 0 x 0 Sport, Luis Zubeldía, the fair shirt, was called by the fans by the name of that mistake that no teacher likes to hear, but the board has said more than once that he is prestigious.
Potatoes baking 1, 2, 3.
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