The desert of proposals, ideas, reliable and competitive coaches, extends to the ignorance of many managers when it comes to football that is played outside Brazil. If many are unable to see what is happening in other Brazilian states, imagine beyond borders.
Something that borders on the pathetic in times of globalization, with the internet connecting to everything and everyone and the wide access, by TV or via the web, to the games that happen around the world. But there are top hats who know players and coaches from abroad less than any 12-year-old who plays Fifa on PlayStation.
Amid the speculated names to command the Palm Trees after Miguel Ángel Ramírez rejected the São Paulo proposal, there were even embarrassing situations. The club decided to seek the Argentine Heinze, ex-Vélez Sarsfield, after clamor of fans via social networks with the lever of the hashtags.
And it was not unheard of. In 2017, after Zé Ricardo left the Flamengo, rubro-negroes climbed the #RuedaNoFla and the leaders ended up going after the Colombian. And for a few months worked at Ninho do Urubu the champion of Libertadores the previous year, with Atlético Nacional de Medellin.
Before Ramírez and Heinze on the palmeirense agenda with the resignation of Vanderlei Luxemburgo, The Corinthians, more modest, left in search of a replacement for Tiago Nunes, which was being unsuccessfully replaced by the interim Coelho. In a bad financial moment, he took the technician out of Atlético Goianiense.
In Belo Horizonte, experiencing the greatest crisis in its history and, undoubtedly, one of the most serious ever faced by a Brazilian club, the cruise disputes the second division with his third coach. And his name is Luiz Felipe Scolari, taken from a retirement-like break to “help” in this difficult time.
It is even more clear that managers have enormous difficulties when challenged to look at the foreign market for options, or lack of. When you sent away Jesualdo Ferreira, who was the second foreign coach followed in the Santoswent to get Cuca, who returned 614 days after saying goodbye.
I o Sao Paulo has lived for more than a year with many questions about the work of Fernando Diniz. Especially when the performances disappoint and the results irritate the fans. So, keep the coach, perhaps waiting for the dreamed return of Rogerio Ceni in 2021, when the são paulinos will have a new president.
The coach of Fortress, by the way, has become a rare character among Brazilians who exercise this function. Somewhat lonely even, after they lost prestige Tiago Nunes and Roger machado, due to the passages that did not correspond, respectively by Corinthians and Bahia.
Meanwhile, three foreigners continue to lead the Brazilian championship for a few rounds, Eduardo Coudet (International) e Jorge Sampaoli (Atlético Mineiro), both Argentine; and Domènec Torrent (Flamengo), Spanish. It would be interesting if top hats of clubs in the country pass to play Fifa, Football Manager …
ELIMINATORY
A Brazilian Team will return to play in a few weeks. First, it will receive the one from Venezuela, on November 13, in Morumbi, then the Centenary stadium, in Montevideo, will face Uruguay, on the 17th. 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
Once again, the South American places in the World Cup will be defined after the teams have played 18 times. In the midst of the pandemic, dividing the ten teams into two groups of five would be smart and rational, with eight games each. Brazil would already be reaching half of the qualifiers!
