Thirty-nine minutes into the match in Itaquera, in front of 40,000 fans, Memphis Depay had won 1-0 with a free kick in the half-moon area of Ceará, a club that had never beaten Albinegro of São Paulo in the Brazilian Championship, and nine minutes in. It was a rare attack, and the people of Ceará had the upper hand and managed to survive it.
With a little bit of dedication to the Dutch team, Memphis put the ball down and hit it low towards the goal.
And suddenly, as the poet said, the figure of the Corinthians defender Andre Ramalho appears like a ghost out of nowhere, throws himself to the ground with his back to the ball, as if in an epileptic fit, and respectfully slaps the woman on the back, buttocks and buttocks. Yes, I’ll kick your ass!
Sorry to the rare readers, but maybe I should have written it “derriere” because it’s more chic in French.
But since Corinthians has not acquired the vocabulary of the drawing room, the plain truth in the bar is that there are many reasons to choose profane language.
Mrs. Luisa Cuffori (the outraged journalist’s mother), an educator who called Tia Luisa in the good days of Escola Lorenzo Castaño, said that “butt” was a beautiful word and chrysanthemum was, well, ugly.
Visiting punching bag Corinthians suffered their fifth home defeat in this Brasileira run, with four draws and seven wins, taking just 25 points from 48 games in Itaquera.
Without being able to present any interesting game ideas, only secret plays that neither fans nor players would notice were being rehearsed.
Dorival Júnior failed with Corinthians, just as it happened with the Brazilian team, and even if he were to win the Copa do Brasil, which is highly unlikely since Cruzeiro won first in the semi-finals, everything points to him ending up the same as he did with fellow champions Flamengo: the front door, the use of the house.
Corinthians are the fourth highest-paid side in the Championship, sitting in 13th place, but are not in danger of relegation because there are teams worse off.
As for dreaming of pre-Libertadores status, honestly, it’s best avoided, even if it means a few dollars to pay off billions of dollars in debt.
It would be preferable to settle for the Copa Sudamericana, the only thing missing from the trophy room, but please understand the irony in this. For Corinthians, even the continental second division is an ostrich’s beak, more like a hole than a podium.
More like the light at the end of a tunnel than the bottom of a well, or a train going backwards, there are only two exits for Corinthians Paulistas, a 100-year-old sports club with the second largest fan base in the country and two-time FIFA Club World Champions. A possible solution was negotiated with SAFiel and Caixa Economica Federal to retain the rights to place the brand in the stadium in São Paulo’s east zone.
But believers must not be fooled by this. Put pressure on them, make a show of it, demand change, or the future will be even worse than the present as a lesson not to manage a gold mine founded by a group of workers and sunk by a group of disqualified people.
Long live the champion of former champions, Corinthians!
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