2023-07-06 16:03:29
Unwittingly, like Chaves, what I wrote last week was aligned with the result of the draw for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores de América. Let’s take my example, River Plate, which has been cooking the first phase in warm water for some time, with some fiasco here and there, but always ends up classifying and thickening the broth from then on.
It won’t be an easy opponent and that seems clear to me as well as the lack of courage of some around Internacional.
Strangely these days I think a lot before doing anything. In the last deal I did, it took me almost two months to finally decide that I was going to change my car. Poor Márcia, my saleswoman, doesn’t even want to see me anymore. I drained him emotionally that day after day, going into the night with the deal closed and going back the next morning. But it was not always so.
Much of what I don’t have today was because of the impulsive business I’ve done throughout my life. I’m one of those last romantics who almost always let passion take precedence over reason. And even though that seemed bold and brought me some fame, in the long run what I got out of it was trouble and a lot of installments to pay. The truth is that the only passion that deserves immediacy far beyond reason is the passion that in the end becomes love. Any passionality other than that flirts with madness.
Internacional will face a team that already had its glory days. It is at that moment that in football is called “reconstruction”. The difference is that he is left in his country and will be national champion; after all, Argentine football has already seen its best days, despite being the last champion of the national team. Title, by the way, which only increased the presumption of these people…
On the ball, Inter is better. I say on paper, obviously, because on the field we are still waiting for the dreamed debut. Because the time is now, because it’s now or never. It’s time for passion and not for reason.
Football doesn’t always go hand in hand with logic. We have an irreproachable chance of winning, passing perhaps the most difficult opponent to start. He’s not the best opponent technically speaking, but he’s the most emotionally prepared for this type of competition that starts now. As I said last week, now it’s another story.
Perhaps you already know the story of the priest who doesn’t like Spanish. I’m not a man of God, at least not on this scale, but I don’t like Spanish either. So, I don’t reject any type of clash with these people and I think that Inter found the right opponent, at the right time. The time is now!
And at the end of the second game there will be no shortage of an Argentine dizzy after the defeat questioning God about being his responsibility for being born Castilian and so much for being defeated: “Lord, could it be me??”. When will God answer (in Portuguese): “Yes, you are the penitent!”
I don’t feel sorry for Castilian. Nor will the International have to.
Mercilessly. No mercy then.
SHORTS
– Mano Menezes needs to understand that a draw is a defeat and a minimum balance defeat is a thought that does not agree with the greatness of Internacional;
– Enough of this poor attitude and this idea of a comfortable loser;
– Argentinians worried about facing Internacional, but very true when pointing out our problems with the defensive air ball;
– A shame that the coach does not seem to want to see. Vitão with all that size has left a lot to be desired;
– I always liked Maurício, even if it seems like an eternal seesaw. But it looks like holding him until the end of the year is key to any pretense for what’s left of this season;
– We need a reserve left-back. Tauan Lara has already shown here that I don’t take faith, and Renê didn’t come back well after the injury;
– Enner Valencia ready to play. And now the story is another(!);
– Barcellos has been giving interviews even to those who scold him day after day. I’m not sorry, after all, he decided only on the eve of the election to remember that he needs to communicate with the fans;
– For me there are idols and idols. Fernandão, for example, put his prestige at stake on behalf of the Club; he never charged anything. Falcão, Valdomiro and many others: they did it for Inter. We have idols and “idols”, this is the truth.
QUESTION
I fear Inter more than River Plate. How about you, Colorado People?
It’s now or never, Colorada Nation.
PACHECO
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