We have coach in the national team, but we do not have president of CBF. It’s bad, but there is always the risk of getting worse.
A reader, my critical conscience, questions me to greatly value the presence of many midfielders who approach to exchange passes and have the dominance of the ball, the game, and for giving less prominence to the centralized connection midfielder. Not quite. All are important. Midfielder who marks, creates and advances is also a striker, as well as striker who retreats and gives great passes is also midfielder. Both sectors need to be grouped.
The same reader, my critical awareness, says that, unlike what I write, almost all Brazilian teams mark the ball from the goalkeeper. It confuses pressure marking on the ball output with pressure marking across the field to try to recover it quickly. This has been a huge number of goals around the world. Flamengo did it once again, against LDU, but was missing inspiration again to reach the goal. Flamengo’s cast from the middle to the front is not as good as they say. Palmeiras is superior.
One of the evolutions of the Palmeiras team is the ability to alternate the way to mark, by pressure or retreating to counterattack in the same game, according to the moment and the opponent. Most Brazilian teams, when the marking advances, leaves large spaces between midfield and defense because the defenders remain glued to the large area.
The same reader, my critical conscience, asks if I do not give excessive value to uncertainties and imponderable in football. I am fascinated by science, the quality of athletes and the strategies of coaches, but ignoring chance, especially in football, is a superb scientific view. It’s not luck. These are common, frequent details that always happen, such as the error of a referee, an expulsion, a diverted ball and so many others, but we do not know when and where they will happen.
There is a huge exaggeration in many rapid reviews of coaches and players. It is the immediate world we live in. Just a beautiful goal, like Botafogo’s by Arthur, for him to be treated as the team’s great protagonist, which never was. Hopefully one day it is. Because of the same haste, coaches are dismissed, as if they were the only culprits for the defeats. Santos, Grêmio and Vasco, three giants of Brazilian football, have already exchanged several coaches without results, because the casts are weak.
Confuse a lot of skill with technique. There are several skilled, fast and dribbling players who are deified from the grassroots categories, but without good technique, which can be learned and developed. Talent is unity, synthesis, skill, technique, creativity and physical and emotional conditions.
On Thursday, Barcelona, the best team in the world even though they were eliminated from the Champions League for the excellent Inter Milan team, won the Spanish title with another great performance and a masterful goal of young Lamine Yamal, 17. Your talent goes far beyond the skill, technique and statistics. He is indefinable. He is before he is.
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