It took 39 minutes of the game in Itaquera, with 40 thousand fans, when Memphis Depay took a free kick in the half-moon area of Ceará, who had never beaten the Alvinegros from São Paulo, in the Brazilian Championship, in São Paulo, and was winning 1-0, a goal scored nine minutes earlier, in a rare attack that, dominated, the Ceará people managed to mount.
Memphis placed the ball with only less affection than he dedicated to the Dutch team and hit it low, towards the goal.
Then, suddenly, no more than suddenly as the poet said, the figure of Corinthians defender André Ramalho appears out of nowhere, like a haunting, who throws himself on the ground with his back to the ball, as if he had suffered an epileptic attack, and receives a lady, with all due respect, hit on the backside, on the bottom, on the ass. Yes, a kick in the ass!
Forgive the rare reader, perhaps I should have written “derrière” because in French it is more chic.
But Corinthians hasn’t earned its parlor vocabulary, hence the blunt, barroom truth: there are plenty of reasons to choose foul language.
Although Mrs. Luiza Kfouri, educator and called Tia Luíza in the good times at Escola Lourenço Castanho, mother of this indignant journalist who writes, said that butt was a beautiful word, and chrysanthemum, yes, ugly.
Corinthians, a visiting punching bag, lost for the fifth time at home in this Brasileirão, with four draws and seven wins, just 25 points gained from the 48 played in Itaquera.
Without being able to present even an interesting game idea, only secret plays were rehearsed, so secret that the players, like the fans, were unaware of them.
Dorival Júnior failed at Corinthians like what happened in the Brazilian team and, if he wins the Copa do Brasil, which is highly unlikely with Cruzeiro ahead in the semi-finals, everything indicates that he will have the same end as he did at Flamengo, the same champion: the front door, the house’s use.
With the fourth highest payroll in the championship, Corinthians is in 13th place and is only not at risk of relegation because there are even worse teams.
As for dreaming of a place in the pre-Libertadores, let’s face it, even if it means a few bucks to pay off the billion-dollar debt, it’s best to avoid it.
It would be preferable to settle for the Copa Sudamericana, the only one missing from the trophy room — and, please, understand that it contains irony, because not even the second continental division is for the Corinthians, an ostrich’s beak, more of a hole than a podium.
There are, at the bottom of the well, or like a light at the end of the tunnel without being a train going against the grain, only two exits for the century-old Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the second biggest fan base in the country and two-time FIFA club world champion: SAFiel and the possible solution negotiated with Caixa Econômica Federal to hold the rights to put its brand on the stadium in the east zone of São Paulo.
To this end, however, the Faithful must not be fooled: either put pressure on them, demonstrate in games and demand changes, or the future will be even worse than the present, a lesson in how not to manage the gold mine that a group of workers founded and a bunch of disqualified people sank.
Hail to Corinthians, former champion of champions!
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