What to see if, at the same time, the volleyball girls played the round of 16 of the World Championship and those of football played the semifinals of the Brazilian Championship?
A game in Bancoco, Thailand, and two others in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.
Those who prefer football for volleyball had no doubt-and vice versa.
Women’s volleyball enchants more than the masculine because the balls stay longer in the air. Question of taste, of course.
Women’s football is increasingly as competitive as men’s. There are those who do not like, and bad luck, simply because it is better to like many things than few.
About the round of 16 there was no doubt about Brazilian superiority, and yet the game began with surprising Dominican victory by 25/18.
They should not have scared.
They were soon punished with 25/12, 25/20 and 25/12 – which allowed you to look more carefully to Cruzeiro 1, Palmeiras 2 and Corinthians 2, Sao Paulo 2, two great games.
Believe the rare reader and the rare reader: The garden was more beautiful to see the cable than Canindé to cheer for the Brabas.
There were 13,533 blue in the capital of Minas Gerais and only 7,808 black and white in Paulista, the Cruzeirenses in search of their first final and the Corinthians for the ninth in a row, with six cups, five consecutive.
The alvicelests had won in Barueri 3-1 and were overcome by the alviverdes, also because goalkeeper Camila failed both goals. In the aggregate score, the lefts were eliminated.
The alvinegras had also won from the sovereign by two goals difference in Pacaembu, and with the draw guaranteed to play the match back from the finals at home, September 14, thanks to Vitória Palmeirense that allowed Corinthian advantage in the general counting of points.
The majestic at the Portuguese stadium had everything required of a semifinal.
The tricolors were massacrative in the first 15 minutes, when they had a must -see but missed opportunity, two good chances and no less than five corner kicks.
Washing goals against the effective and experienced Brabas is deadly, and there was no other: Corinthians made 1-0 with Mariza.
Brave and determined, the São Paulo drew with Aline, suffered 2-1 from Andressa in the first half and, in additions, saw goalkeeper Nicole prevent a new draw by defending a penalty charged by Bruna Calderan.
Isa tied in the second half, Sao Paulo had two more clear chances of at least winning, in additions, but the draw lasted.
Even threat of slap in the face had between Jaqueline and Bruna.
Corinthians and Cruzeiro will face each other for the 12th time in history, and the advantage of São Paulo is ABISSAL, with nine wins, a draw and only one defeat, but by 7-2 in 2024, rematch from 7 to 1 a year earlier.
In 2025, the Brabas beat the cable ones in the first phase of Brasileirão 4-2, triumphed in the 1-0 Super Cup and eliminated them from the Brazilian Cup on penalties, after 1 to 1 in normal time.
Veríssimo
Enjoy the company of Luis Fernando Verissimo in the 1986, 1994, 2006 and 2010 World Cups of the World Cups was one of the greatest awards journalism gave to my life.
Unforgettable.
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