Football is a wonderful thing
Yesterday we watched a game at Maracanã to remind us how wonderful Football is.
Firstly, I'm not saying it was a wonderful game from a technical aspect, but football is wonderful for its unpredictable nature.
Football is one of the few sports where the best team doesn't always win.
A unique sport.
No matter how much quality there is on the other side, the opponent may still be able to come out with the victory.
The Flamengo team is a better team individually than Athletico Paranaense.
Even with the absences, it is impossible not to recognize the quality of the squad assembled by Flamengo.
Even more so with Michael starting well, he came on and gave the Flamengo team much more speed.
With his dribbling and play, he improved the team in the second half.
However, no one is prepared for a goal at the start of the game.
Football plays these tricks, right at the beginning the Flamengo team scored, with a penalty, this destabilized the team.
Exciting variables.
These variables make football wonderful.
It's a penalty that changes the game, or an expulsion, an own goal, everything has the power to affect the result in an exciting way.
Results predictions are often completely transformed by just one move.
See the result of Santos x Fluminense.
Santos in Z4, Fluminense was coming off an excellent victory against Flamengo.
Santos had difficulty scoring goals, and what happened? Santos won 2-0.
Teams that fluctuate all the time.
Football is a wonderful thing, because the performance of players on the field depends on a series of factors that can fluctuate.
If something happened in his family, as well as, if the player is happy at the club, or if he is afraid of getting injured again.
Everything can change, in a fraction of a second, the team that was not a favorite passes the stage, and what many believed to be the champion, leaves the championship.
What to say about Bayer Munich?
The always champion, always favorite Bayer, took a huge beating. They lost 5-0 to Monchengladbach.
Football is truly a wonderful thing.
This condition makes everything possible, and gives much more excitement to this sport that has the power to attract crowds.
Unexpected stories with selections from around the world.
Throughout history we will have these so-called zebras. happening with teams and even national teams.
In 1963, Bolivia won the Copa América at home.
Who could have predicted this? Despite the altitude, beating Brazil and Argentina, football is something wonderful.
Or in 1992, Denmark beat Germany in the final and became European Championship champions.
And in 2007, Iraq won the Asian Cup, even in the midst of chaos in their country, they beat other teams with more tradition in football.
In 2019, Qatar won the Asian Cup.
Beating the strong Japan team in the final, they still came away with the highest number of goals scored in the competition, 19 goals scored in just seven games.
Whether in the Asian Cup or in local championships, football is something wonderful.
Maybe that's why it attracts so many people, maybe that's why it touches fans' feelings so much, maybe that's why it attracts so much sponsorship.
Sponsorships.
Football must be the most valued sport in the world, the big teams receive huge sponsorships, amounts in the millions.
Companies print their brands on the shirt, as well as TV quotas, in addition, with the return of the public, there is the box office, always a lot of money entering the coffers.
Clubs in debt.
Brazilian football has a very complicated reality, despite so much money flowing into most of the big clubs in Brazil, the clubs owe millions.
- Atlético MG owed 1.2 billion in 2020
- Cruzeiro 962.5 million
- Corinthians 949.2 million
- Botafogo 946.2 million
- International 882.9 million
- Vasco 830.6 million
- Flamengo 680.8 million
- Fluminense 649.1 million
- São Paulo 575.1 million
- Palm trees 562.2 million
This according to the ESPN website https://www.espn.com.br/futebol/artigo/_/id/8575907/corinthians-pior-botafogo-atletico-mg-supera-cruzeiro-ranking-dividas-mais-r-10-bilhoes-clubes-brasileiros
The article talks about the 10 biggest debtors of Brazilian football in 2020.
Football is a wonderful thing, but it needs serious management.
The laws of our country are very conducive to corruption.
Club presidents do not respond jointly with their assets when they harm the club.
This is killing the clubs. We have the example of the cruise. Sad example.
But the emotion of football did not cease to exist. We need to keep this alive in our society. Strengthen clubs with laws that protect them.
Football cannot agonize, because football is something wonderful.
Regardless of which club you support, there is always emotion in penalty decisions. We were excited to watch.
Not even the violence so present in our football was able to steal our joy for the sport.
Even more so when we see our children supporting their favorite clubs, some are moved to tears simply because they love their teams.
We fell in love with this sport from a very early age, it's a shame that women's football doesn't receive the same proportion of investment.
Football definitely needs protection, it needs care, but it is wonderful.
Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and do something that helps this sport grow stronger. At the same time we have fun.
In the same way that we love sport, we can think about it in its organization, to strengthen it.
Finally, may the stadiums be full of people, with all health care, of course, may there always be joy.
May our children never stop seeing football as something wonderful, may violence be far from the stadiums.
Anyway, may football always continue to be something wonderful for all of us.
