The 5-0 defeat of South Korea was the Brazilian team’s best performance in recent years. The team did very well in strategy, individually and in attitude, as Carlo Ancelotti wants. The team was compact, intense, and pressed as a group on the marking. When it was not possible to recover the ball in front, he returned with the two attackers on the sides (Rodrygo on the left and Estêvão on the right), in addition to Matheus Cunha in the center. Only Vinicius Junior, centralized, was ahead. When the team had the ball, five players were attacking. It was a lesson in modern football.
As in his best moments at Real Madrid, Rodrygo, on the left, and Vinicius Junior in the center, alternated and created beautiful plays. Everyone did very well. With Raphinha, the attack becomes even stronger. Only the two full-backs remained timid in supporting the attack.
Before the match, Ancelotti said that the players’ attitude is more important than strategy. I add individual talent to the attitude. I repeat, for the thousandth time, technicians are extremely important, essential, but they are oversized in defeats and victories, although there are, in all professions, differences in efficiency. Ancelotti is a special coach.
In life and in football, I continue to have my doubts and uncertainties, with many questions and few exact answers. What will be the best tactical formation when Brazil faces the main teams in the world?
Why do so many praise Pedro, ask for him to be called up to the national team, but he remains in Flamengo’s reserves? Why do Palmeiras win even when they don’t like it? Many confuse playing well with playing beautifully. There are many ways to be efficient.
Why is Mirassol, which was considered a strong competitor for relegation at the start of the Brasileirão, in fourth place, with a good chance of winning a place in the Libertadores?
Why is Flamengo’s young and skilled Wallace Yan so scatterbrained, undisciplined and aggressive during matches? He needs support, punishment and technical, behavioral and psychological guidance.
Why does goalkeeper Fábio, 44 years old, the player with the most professional matches in the history of football, continue to shine without giving anyone a chance to say that he is a “former active athlete”? Hulk, who hasn’t stood out for a while, is he in his twilight or is it just a bad moment? Let’s wait and see. “Life takes many turns, life doesn’t even belong to us” (João Guimarães Rosa).
Why is Brazil so radicalized, with both sides and Congress concerned with nitpicking, electoral victories and populist actions, without creating solid structures that can change the country’s future?
Public schools
In the years 1963 to 1965, when I was 16 to 18 years old, when I was already a professional at Cruzeiro, I took the scientific course, before the entrance exam, at the Central State College, in Belo Horizonte, a listed heritage site, a symbol of excellent education and architecture, as the building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer. At the time, the best schools were public ones. I am sorry to hear that the state government is trying to transfer the school to the Union in payment of financial debts. The community linked to the school is mobilized against the proposal.
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