The green house, in São Paulo, is mobilized to transform the crushing defeat at Casa Blanca, in Quito, into mere first half of the 2025 continental semi-finals.
“Ninety minutes is a long time”, coach Abel Ferreira has repeated as a mantra when calling the fans for “a magical night”.
It will be, and how it will be, if Palmeiras manages to turn the 3-0 score around to give them a place in the final.
Palmeiras has a tradition of comebacks, whether within the same game, and the Botafoguenses will never forget one, whether in the second leg of a knockout, something that the São Paulo natives also have fresh in their memory.
Doubting that it is possible is more than the feeling of skeptics or pessimists, those ungrateful people who ask for the head of the Portuguese coach and who will elevate him to the status of Saint Abel if the miracle happens.
After what Palmeiras did to Grêmio in the 1995 Libertadores, anything is possible.
No one, not even the most optimistic of Palmeiras, believed that there would be a way to reverse the 5-0 defeat in Porto Alegre’s old Olympic stadium.
So much so that only 7,615 fans were at the old Palestra Itália to witness the mere completion of the table.
On the green bench, Carlos Alberto Silva. In tricolor, Felipão.
In the eighth minute, Jardel scored to make it 6-0 on aggregate.
There were those who got up in the stands and headed home, frustrated in the hope of seeing at least a minimally restorative victory.
What was seen from then on made the classic immortal. Truly immortal, or greenly immortal, although that is the Grêmio nickname.
Still in the first half, Cafu and Amaral turned the ball around.
In the second, the impossible became possible with three more goals, from Paulo Isidoro, Mancuso and Cafu, making it 5-1, with six minutes remaining.
One goal was missing, in that game to this day there is still one goal left to take the decision to the final mark.
The seven thousand fans did not forgive.
Yes, they praised the team. As if he were a champion.
Did we make a mistake?
The court did not accept Conib’s complaint that accused Jewish journalist Breno Altman of being anti-Semitic.
Conib makes regretful notes whenever someone alludes to the genocide in Palestine.
But he made no note to call his supporters to the ecumenical act “50 years for Vlado”.
The presence of Conib members does not necessarily mean that the institution is present, unlike what happened with the presence, and mobilization, of the São Paulo Journalists Union.
General Romeu Costa Ribeiro Bastos was also at the event, representing himself, and not on behalf of the Brazilian Army, as would have been magnificent.
The Editorial Secretariat of this Sheet therefore, he did not understand and published an article We were wrong to consider that the presence of the president of Conib was sufficient to represent it.
I respect, and disagree, for the first time in more than 20 years, after creating “Kirrata” here and considering errata mandatory, and healthy.
In time: the Union’s conviction for the murder of Vladimir Herzog, thanks to the courageous sentence of the applauded judge Márcio José de Moraes, took place in 1978, three years after the crime, and not in 1987 — as a treacherous typographical error reversed.
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