Not always, due to personal or professional commitments, I can see everything I want in football. It happened on Saturday (2), and lost the final of the Women’s Copa, in Ecuador, between Brazil and Colombia.
In advance, he believed that the national team led by Arthur Elias, current Olympic runner-up, playing a convincing football for almost a year, would have no major problems against the Colombians, even with the recent evolution of coffee.
After all, hegemony in South America-the name of the name Copa America, only South American countries participate in Brazil. Of the nine editions played so far (the first in 1991), Brazil had won eight.
The only defeat in a final in 2006 for 2-0 Argentine hostess at Mar del Plata. The Brazilian coach was Jorge Barcellos, and the team’s highlight, striker Cristiane.
Because in this final, I came to know with the game already closed, there were great problems for the favorite Brazilian team. A victory suffered on penalties after an unexpected 4-4 (3 to 3 in normal time, 1 to 1 in extension).
In addition to having lost a sensational game, I lost the fantastic draw Salvador do Brasil, when I lost 3-2, with 23 seconds to the final whistle at Rodrigo Paz Delgado stadium in Quito. More: I lost a beautiful goal, in a bump from outside the area, of the most representative Brazilian player in history: Marta Vieira da Silva.
Also known, since he earned his first prize (from the six -year record of the world’s best player, at the age of 20 and almost 20 years ago, in 2006, such as Queen Marta, or Queen of Football.
Direct comparison with Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé, the King of Football, incomparable, unparalleled and unforgettable, but it could be “inadjectable”, just the nickname for everyone to know who it is, the Mayral in football.
The Redeemer goal could not have come out of another leg, Marta’s left, who also used the right to make 4-3, or did not use, because, seeing the bid, he was for a header.
But the ball passed, as if with a will of its own, to, faithfully, to lightly touch the queen’s foot, this time the right, the least good, using it to go to the nets and making it as effective as the left.
They say the ball looks for the star, that respects and worships him, because he treats her well, with a way and, only when necessary, with strength, to give her the joy of entering the goal.
Marta has been depreciated a few years ago in the national team. Age, if it does not take away the talent, reduces speed, restricts capacity. It became a queen leading more out than from inside the field, sitting much of the time in the reserve bench.
He thought several times about leaving the national team, advertisements of this, but called to battles, leader who is, did not refuse them. Winning or losing, as from the beginning, would be a consequence.
Historically, most were lost, including worldwide and Olympics, never overcome by Brazil.
But it seems that fate wants to reserve something unprecedented for those who, queen he is, never lost his majesty, proven by his career resilience and eloquence in the end of the Copa America.
Marta has already stated that it will not get there, but I believe so, that Marta will arrive there. That Real Goodbye will be at the World Cup in Brazil in 2027. And that the destination will reserve, at the age of 41, the best of the farewells. An ending with a final. And a final with a happy ending.
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