For the 17th time in 17 editions of the women’s Copa Libertadores da América, Brazilian football will have at least one team in the final.
Corinthians and Ferroviária qualified to compete in one of the semi-finals, with Brabas looking for their sixth title, their third consecutive title, and Guerreiras Grenás looking for their third cup.
The Alvinegras defeated Boca Juniors 4-0 at the home of the Xeneizes, and the Araraquarenses prevailed 3-0 against the Dragonas of Independiente del Valle.
The Corinthians victory had the refinement of a treble from Espírito Santo’s Gabi Zanotti, the fabulous striker who, at 40 years old, continues to be decisive and racking up champion stripes in her eighth year at Parque São Jorge.
Voted the best futsal player in Brazil, alongside Falcão, 20 years ago, with successful spells in American and Chinese football, Gabi is for women’s football as Cristiano Ronaldo is for men’s football, a phenomenon that only nature and dedication can explain.
Corinthians and Ferroviária will face each other this Wednesday, at 8 pm, in Lomas de Zamora, in the so-called Greater Buenos Aires, 15 kilometers from the center of the capital.
Even the possibility of the final being played between two Brazilian teams was open on Sunday (12), as has already happened on two occasions, in 2019 and 2023, between Corinthians and Ferroviária and Corinthians and Palmeiras, always with black and white triumphs.
The closing deadline prevented the column from recording the result between Soberanas do São Paulo and Deportivo Cali, in the quarter-finals.
Leader
By reaching the same 26 games as Flamengo, Palmeiras put three points and two wins ahead of the red and black team.
Even though it was full of absences from its foreigners busy with the boring FIFA dates, the black and white team thrashed Juventude without letting them breathe at home 4-1, with more than 40 thousand fans on a festive night of good football.
The Brazilian Championship title is increasingly restricted to the two, although Cruzeiro can still dream.
Absurd
The complaint offered by prosecutor Maurício Fabretti, from the Federal Public Ministry, based on Conib’s infamous accusation about alleged racism by journalist Breno Altman, is absurd.
By not understanding the Chinese metaphor about not mattering the color of the cat as long as it kills the mouse, the accusation offends freedom of the press and expression and gets zero in text comprehension.
Now, if instead of cat and mouse the phrase concerned eagles and hawks or lions and tigers, would the journalist also be accused of racism?
Furthermore: if the Nazis were the targets of the text, not those Zionists who impose genocide in Palestine, would there be the same unreasonable accusation?
Already with important signatures from Brazilian personalities, a letter addressed to prosecutor Fabretti is on chance.org asking him to withdraw the complaint.
The signatories, in solidarity with Altman, inform that they subscribe to his text.
A thousand times being alongside the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, or Fania Oz-Salzberger, also a historian and writer, daughter of the great Amós Oz, being close to those who call anti-fascists anti-Semites, as do the current presidents of Conib and Fisesp.
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