2023-08-17 15:00:00
In the 1980s Internacional “fluctuated” between good and bad moments, but it seems that it was from there that we created this “mutt syndrome” that lasts among us until today, despite the titles and major victories that shaped an important part of of our history in recent years. I don’t understand how from a victorious decade with the most showy football in the country (1970), we became a random team passing the saucer to pay the bills in the following years (mainly in the 90’s).
In fact, I even know the reasons for the decadence, but better to keep the tongue inside the mouth (and the transcription to words through the computer keys).
We had interesting teams in the 80’s and with the white mantle they played great footballers: Rubén Paz, Cléo, Geraldão, Kita, Dunga, Mauro Galvão, among other good values. The 1987 team eluded us: Taffarel, Luiz Carlos Winck, Pinga, Aloisio, Norberto, Luiz Fernando Rosa Flores, Norton, Amarildo and others (including Balalo); Ênio Andrade. Memory is letting me down…
It was also in the 1980s that an attempt to transform alcohol into a preferential fuel for automobiles took off and gained prominence in the country, at the time a practical necessity: we didn’t have oil because it was lacking everywhere; global crisis. There was even a government program to encourage the idea, created in the 1970s: Pró-Álcool.
But I and most people went to see the same car running on alcohol in the 80s. With that, options for cars powered by sugar cane fuel popped up. And on that note I was the (up to a point) happy owner of a brown Chevette, year 1988. Aside from the Chevette’s historical problems, my alcoholic version of the delicacy still ‘hated me’. I explain.
Here’s the not-so-happy part of the story: there wasn’t Christ who made the car start in the early morning in the cold: he pulled the choke, the indirect injection button, he did direct injection with gasoline in the carburetor, boiling water to warm it up, sympathy and… nothing . Nothing made that car start and it wasn’t once or twice that I had to go to the bus station. It even looked like “a done thing” as the older ones used to say.
But when that Chevette finally started (the happy part) it was poison, it drove well, it was nervous, it performed and drew attention wherever it went. She was showy, anyway. When she “pulled off” nothing stopped…
Reminds the Internacional team today. It’s hard to pick up (even in stride), we’ve already changed coaches and the team is still in trouble and it seems like they do it on purpose: to piss off Colorado fans! It even seems like a “done thing”… In other words, the current Internacional team looks like an old car fueled by alcohol: it starts when it wants to.
I’m just no longer irritated and worried at this point, because when that Chevette of mine warmed up, I needed to have a lot of engine to pair on the side. And so I hope it will also happen with our Inter: when it warms up, it will need to be a much better team to beat us. That is: we have to warm up for five more Libertadores games and we still have an entire shift in the Brasileirão to show what power we have. You just want to pick it up, start it and never stop.
That’s it, after all, and who will be fueled by alcohol at the end of the season, just and only, will be us Colorado fans. In a happy version of the story.
And I want to have the cachaça in my hand to start the party…
SHORTS
– Chacho Coudet repeated the failures of the second half in Argentina, also in the second in the last game in Rio de Janeiro. Despite the short time of work, he no longer has room for error;
– I’ve already said it and repeat myself: you have to win again in the Brazilian before the group forgets what I like to win;
– I had good expectations with the Galician Hugo Mallo. At least in speech;
– About the under-20 team: poorly trained and looking like a spoiled bunch on the pitch. The boy Vinícius Rangel doesn’t have the stuff to play in the professional team and from there Lucca is saved, who scored one of the most beautiful goals in the history of the Giant. Finally: pay attention to Fernandão’s son. Not because of his father, but because he showed personality;
– I don’t blame Gustavo Grossi, who, as far as I know, doesn’t interfere in the juniors. But the truth is that this management, even or odd, cannot win;
– You have to hire a left-back;
– Wearing a headdress this August summer is walking around with a “bloated head”. RáRáRá.;
– I know everyone thinks about altitude and Libertadores, but I didn’t forget that Saturday has a game for the national championship. And you have to win anyway. Just want it, and it will be!
QUESTION
I would play starters on Saturday. How about you, Colorado?
The journey is twofold in laughter. I just won’t say who…RáRáRá!
PACHECO
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