The referee blows the whistle. The championship ended. Corinthians’ fans jumps on totally delirious on the stands. Black and white. The Blacks and the Whites, he-man or not, hug themselves, kiss themselves, crying with this conquest.
It doesn’t matter. This Brazilian Soccer Championship will be soiled forever by the corruption inside and outside fields. Certainly, it is one real reflex of our disastrous situation in Brazil. Soccer, the national passion, moves millions of dollars in internationals deals, exporting our best net product, man. Such as any entertainment, someone always gets high profits.
However, this Championship will be marked forever. In this year, the political crisis destroyed the Government and worst than that, cheated millions of people, betrayed by PT’s historical promises.
The corruption industry gets so big that involves all higher levels of government. But that we were tired of. What really soiled soccer was the corruption around all country. We were involved in such way that is impossible to see the way out. Soccer can’t be away from it.
Selling and purchasing game’s results just show to us that nothing is immune. The national passion was raped by the ass and with her, millions of ball lovers. Truly, it just brings up all dirty things that already exist.
Before of all those things, I see one guy from Argentina that came to play here. And look, the biggest exporter of the best football players, that only in this current year, seven of ten are best players of the world by Fifa raking, are from here and we imported him from our most rivals.
Weird hair, languid month, scar, ugly tooth and coiled speech. What calls my attention the most in that guy, isn’t his aggressive manner to play, his ball’s ability or his fantastic goals. No, it is not.
Tevez shows us that we can and we have to speak what we believe. Maybe because he is a foreigner or because he earns millions, I don’t known. But I don’t care about it. He shows us, when he said to Lula to stay in his presidential place, and don’t come suck up now, when the team is at the top, because when he arrived here, Lula scorned him. Tavez also said that he does what he wants do and football managers don’t command him. The message has the importance.
I believed that kind of conduct, maybe too hard, is missing in Brazil. Speak truly and don’t put the head down by intimidations and make you self respected.
[When I wrote that article, the Brazilian Soccer Championship wasn’t finished]
By Fernando Katayama 4 dec. 05
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