While wars frighten the world, football is celebrating with the Club World Cup. It is the human ambivalence: love and hatred, joy and sadness, celebrations and tragedies.
The win will start, an expression used by Juca Kfouri, much more pleasant than the knockout. Enough of death. Another horrible expression, which is fashionable, is to say that the team goes through a “cargo control” to explain the changes made by the coaches to avoid the tiredness of the players. “You’re not machines, men are that you are,” said Charles Chaplin.
Brazilian teams are better than expected, and the Europeans, worse than foretold. Brazilians feel at home in the United States, celebrated and encouraged by their fans and Latinos, who occupy most stadiums. Excessive heat favors Brazilians. In the 1970 World Cup, in Mexico, Brazil’s Timaço also had help from the heat, with games at noon. At the World Cup, in a year, the South Americans will have the advantages of heat and feel at home.
It is also clear the effort and ghana of Brazilian teams to overcome themselves. Football is not just the result of individual and collective talent. Also present are environmental, physical, emotional and unpredictable factors.
Before the ball rolled, would there be an exaggerated assessment of the technical difference of Europeans from Brazilians? I think yes. Superiority is not so large. In the previous world championships, won by Europeans, with only one decisive game between teams from Europe and South America, the European team had finished winning the Champions League, was fit, with all the holders and mid -season.
In the current World Cup, the only surprising result in the confrontation between Brazilians and Europeans was Botafogo’s 1-0 win over PSG, the recent European champion.
Even with the defeat to Atletico Madrid 1-0, Botafogo qualified for the round of 16 and will face Palmeiras, who tied with Inter Miami 2-2. PSG will play against the American team, which looks like Barcelona’s veteran team, with Messi, Suárez, Busquets and Jordi Alba, as well as coach Mascherano.
It was no surprise to Flamengo’s victory over Chelsea or the best performances of Palmeiras and Fluminense in the draws against Porto and Borussia Dortmund, respectively. These three European teams are currently not at the first level of European football.
Regardless of the results, it is necessary to compliment the strategic behavior of Brazilian teams, which have played with great intensity, compaction, pressure to recover the ball, and alternate the passing of passes with the rapid transitions of defense to the attack. The performances of the two Portuguese technicians – Renato Paiva and Abel Ferreira – and the two Brazilian technicians – Filipe Luís and Renato Gaúcho – deserve applause.
It is still early for the pachecons to be so euphoric. Europeans began to improve, concerned about the criticism they have suffered. Despite the uncertainties, I will no longer be surprised if a Brazilian team is world champion.
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