Last week, I operated on cataract and I’m amazed at my new and clear vision. People, the atmosphere and the television soccer game are more beautiful and colorful. In recent times, I got used to it and adapted to the slow and progressive decrease of vision until I realized how much it hurt me. Unfortunately that the largest line of people waiting for elective surgery in SUS is that of cataract. Thousands of the elderly would have a much better life.
In life and football, people get used to the buzzwords, behaviors, game strategies until they are frightened and find out the mistakes and the new reality. So it was in the 7×1 for the Germans and the 4×1 for Argentina, when our disabilities, especially collective disabilities.
We need to evolve, get rid of, and free from the outdated repetitions that occur in our football. The huge spaces left between the sectors and the marking from afar is still very frequent and outdated, except when it is necessary to switch the most advanced and the backward marking in the same match. Guardiola likes to say that it is less tiring and more efficient to run forward to press who has the ball than run back and close the spaces in defense to against attack.
Cruzeiro, as had occurred against the good team of Bahia, marked Flamengo by block pressure and annulled the ball and the pass change from the defense. When I couldn’t press, the cruise retreated the marking and formed two lines of four without spaces between them to prevent the excellent Arrascaeta socks and Gerson from receiving the ball.
Most coaches, analysts and fans got used to fixed positions, shirts 9, 10, 8 and 5 as if they were avatars of an electronic dispute. The Brazilian National Team, in addition to great sides, is missing, a real center forward who scores goals, moves throughout the field and participates in the collective frame of the plays, such as English Kane. In Brazil, he would be called false 9. There is also a midfielder star, like Pedri, Barcelona, who acts from one intermediate to another, mix of shirt 8 and 10. Midfielder is still missing in midfield, a mark and starts the offensive moves with excellent passes, such as Spanish Rodrigo, the Dutch Yong and the German Kimmich. These stars do not exist in Brazil because they are not formed. It is the normalization of mediocrity.
Many people, in everyday life, of all areas, get used to repetitions, opinions, behaviors until they realize a new reality. “I did what I didn’t know and what I could do from me I didn’t do it … When I wanted to take the mask, I was attached to the face. When I took it and saw myself in the mirror, I had already aged” (Fernando Pessoa).
Brazil has long been used to and normalized misery, corruption, lack of basic sanitation and urban violence, increasingly scary. I dream of living with the dear people in my Pasárgada, the idealized and imagined city of a poem by Manuel Bandeira, where he could walk distracted throughout the streets and neighborhoods, without worrying about being stolen, robbed.
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