Regardless of current details and facts, people often see things and create concepts and narratives according to what they think and want. They become biased, one more than the others. It is difficult to be a totally neutral observer.
The demonstrations through the country’s streets against amnesty and against the shielding PEC in favor of congressmen, authorization for banditry, are welcome and necessary. Others should occur, against the absurd parliamentary amendments, the theft of retirees in the INSS, the growing violence and crime and so many other situations that have plagued Brazil for decades, in different types of governments.
The best player in the world is Mbappé, even not the best of the year. Dembélé, elected, is a great, irregular striker who had an exceptional moment. Vinicius Junior’s technical and prestige fall is evident. I hope it is a fleeting.
After my ten days of vacation, without seeing football, return and meet different and equal situations. The referees remain bad. Worse, VAR, which should have the function of correcting a clear error of the referee, did the opposite: induced the referee to mark a penalty that never existed and that the referee had not signaled.
Ten days ago, the best team in Brazil was Flamengo. Now they say it’s Palmeiras. An analyst said Palmeiras improved because no longer depends on Stephen, with the argument that the team focused too much on the player.
Soon someone will say that the stars are bad for the teams.
Who has not changed is Cruzeiro, which remains very strong under the command of Leonardo Jardim. It is difficult to understand what he says.
In the football world, players and coaches are often labeled good or bad, heroes or villains. Not quite.
Guardiola is an exceptional coach, revolutionary, but also makes mistakes, although he is rarely criticized. Manchester City under the command of Guardiola lost excellent players, such as Bruyne and Alvarez, and hired others who did not stand out.
Rogério Ceni perhaps among Brazilians, which would today have been more able to be coach of the national team if Ancelotti had not been hired. But Ceni commits flaws. Against Ceará, as Bahia played better, under the creative command of Everton Ribeiro, Ceni replaced the player and the team worsened. I waited in the interview that he gave an explanation, but no one asked.
Against Flamengo, Fernando Diniz, from Fluminense, was widely praised for the aggressiveness and curses to the young and talented Rayan, with the justification that this coach’s behavior causes the athlete to grow in the game and career. There is no need for that, which may even have the opposite effect. What’s more, the essential factor for the evolution of a young man is his talent.
Whenever Fernando Diniz runs a team, they exalt dinizism, as if it was a big news to the ball from the goalkeeper with passing passes. Today, almost all teams in Brazil and the world adopt this posture and the pressure to recover the ball at the goalkeeper’s exit. Football is more beautiful and intense.
Beauty is very important as long as it is associated with technique and efficiency. It is not enough to play beautiful. We need to win.
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