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Tite unveiled the squad for the games against Venezuela and Uruguay in November. Among the novelties, Vinicius Júnior is good news, although he is not exactly the player who fits into the role of dribbling tip on the right that the Canarian team still lacks. The Real Madrid striker works better on the other side, but it is worth the opportunity given to those who have been working to evolve to a high level in Europe.
This, by the way, should be the most important criterion when the coach of the Brazilian team makes his decisions. Whoever competes with the best, in the main leagues on the planet, must always have priority. Due to the habit of facing the great stars of other countries and understanding the intensity and tactical dedication necessary for it.
Also because summoning players who work in Brazil does not make any sense and can only be explained as a kind of “quota” to force a connection between the fan and the national team. Populism really, very open. As if it was really necessary.
Many fans feed, on the internet and when it was possible to have a responsible bar discussion, a longing for the 2006 selection, due to the meeting of stars. When Argentina won the 2005 Confederations Cup final and then thrashed Chile in Porto Alegre, there were fireworks and parties in various streets of Brazil. An euphoric atmosphere reminiscent of 1982.
Did stars perform in Brazil? Ronaldinho in Barcelona, Kaká in Milan, Robinho. Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos at Real Madrid, Adriano at Internazionale. None of this prevented identification. Because the fans expect results of the selection, preferably with a show.
Tite summoned Weverton and Gabriel Menino from Palmeiras and Rodrigo Caio and Everton Ribeiro from Flamengo. If the teams go through Red Bull Bragantino and Athletico, respectively, in the Brazil Cup, all four players will lose the first leg of the quarterfinals of the national tournament.
Neither of them should start playing qualifying games, especially since Alisson will return to the Brazilian goal. With the exception of Gabriel Menino, who has the potential and the burden of evolution to work in a great center, none of the others is in a position to contribute to the selection in the main objective of the country five times world champion: to win the Cup in 2022, if it ever happens. .
It is the only case where it is really worth calling. Like Neymar in the time of Santos and Gabriel Jesús in Palmeiras. When it is clear that the stay will not be short, that the potential is above the average of what is at stake here. Other than that, this is a waste of time, plain and simple.
Mutt complex? No, just a sense of reality. Also coherence, because it is difficult to understand how fans and fellow press are capable of criticizing the level of football played in Brazil, being delighted with the Champions League or the Premier League, being very demanding with the national team and really thinking that Tite should call on Thiago Galhardo, Marinho, Keno and others who are not in a position to deliver competitive football ahead, in what matters most: the clashes with the main European teams in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. That’s what the team needs to prepare for since the playoffs.
Tite summons players working in Brazil who miss their teams on FIFA dates due to crazy schedule, bloated by state players, and then we have the absurd at the coach’s press conference at CBF headquarters.
Flamengo is a Brazilian and South American champion. He often goes to great lengths to keep his top players, resisting polls, proposals, even harassment from outside clubs in times of real devaluation. Investment to have a strong team and a cast in the country and in South America.
All this to have players called up not only by the Brazilian team, but also by Chile (Isla) and Uruguay (De Arrascaeta). In the last call he lost two players due to injury who have not yet returned to the team. They left the club that pays the salary in perfect physical condition and returned “damaged.”
Well, one of the questions to Tite was to question whether, by not summoning more players from the rojinegro team, such as Pedro and Bruno Henrique, the coach would not be benefiting the club. In other words, whoever works to be the best deserves to be punished by CBF. The distortion of all parameters, the meritocracy in reverse. Tite replied that no, the criteria is technical. And so it is, no need to call, there are athletes of the highest level in Europe.
But after that, if Brazilian football was serious, a congress would have to be scheduled to rethink everything. Or just do the most simple and obvious: call only “foreigners”, as André Jardine did on the Olympic team. Forced by circumstances, obviously. Because the logic moves away from CBF.
