Fluminense was the most successful Brazilian representative at the Club World Cup and eliminated with two goals from a born player and raised in his base divisions.
Nothing more symbolic than separates us from Europe in terms of football.
João Pedro left Brazil at the age of 18, destination Watford, for one of those certainties we have: the only way out for Brazilian football is the airport.
It is different for Chelsea to beat Fluminense with a former Tricolor than Real Madrid have the economic ability to take Mbappé from Paris Saint-Germain and face it in the semifinals. PSG has Hakimi, graduated from Real, had Sergio Ramos, whom he took from Santiago Bernabéu.
It is only globalization if you participate in the globe.
In the case of Brazil, follows the cruel logic implanted since the Bosman sentence. Chelsea played the semifinals with three English holders, three French, two Spanish, one Portuguese, one Argentine, one Ecuadorian and one Brazilian. Moses Caicedo, from the Ecuador selection, has a Spanish passport; João Pedro, Italian.
The Brazilian striker explained why he did not celebrate the goals against his training club: “Fluminense created me and showed me to the world.” It means a lot. Changed the life of your family.
And if Pelé played for Benfica against Santos, if Zico gave Liverpool against Flamengo, if Renato Gaúcho were from Hamburg, not from Grêmio, if he or she defended Barcelona, not Sao Paulo?
The João Pedro era, Italian passport, changes everything.
Stephen has no double nationality. He scored for Palmeiras against Chelsea and the next day he had the English delegation for two days of adaptation, before taking a vacation and joining the club in August.
Our biggest deficit, mass exports of early talent, produces others. What is the culture of Brazil’s game? In recent years, we have criticized Renato Gaúcho for scoring with long individual persecution, such as the old zone marking taught by Zezé Moreira, coach of the 1954 World Cup.
For Chelsea beat Fluminense with feature on individual persecution.
Our tactical abyss is not so much of the coaches. It is from the stands and the round tables, although there is a debt of technicians who write books and contain their strategies, as Abel Ferreira was not afraid to do. Our culture is oral.
Also harmed by Sandices such as saying that Fluminense played more than Chelsea in a year, without taking into account that there were 43 Flu matches, after the holidays, against 63 of the English. Yes, the tricolors played 66 games in the same period, but the Brazilian season starts in January, the European started last August.
The Club World Cup shows us similar to Italy, Portugal, the midfielders of Spain and the great from France and Germany, taking PSG and Bayern. Let the need not to conform to us. Let’s not be as strong in terms of clubs as the English or Real Madrid and Barcelona.
But if the league comes with economic bias, it will be possible to make a stronger championship here. This is not about not selling Neymar at 21, as happened. It is about not losing João Pedro and Stephen at 18.
Brazil is not stopped. You need to walk faster.
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