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In the middle of the final stretch of Brasileirão 2020, Abel Braga relives at Internacional the same situation that bothered him at Flamengo in 2019, which led him to resign from his position. This is how he acted last year as soon as he learned of the polls of the rojinegros leaders to the Portuguese Jorge Jesús. And now, what are you going to do with the news that the new Colorado board is settling in with the Spanish Miguel Ángel Ramírez and wants him to take over the team in January?
Inter’s move is interesting in terms of putting a foreigner more up-to-date with modern football than their current coach. But the timing of such a definition carries risks for next season. Even in the G-6, which would guarantee him a place in the Libertadores 2021, Internacional will be able to remain in the qualifying zone under the command of a new coach, or even following the current one, demotivated and somewhat demoralized by the certainty of the short-term dismissal term?
Miguel Angel Ramírez, as we know, is one of the apostles of positional play, which Pep Guardiola consecrated in Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. Style that Domènec Torrent, Pep’s assistant for 13 years, tried to implant in the pot, in Flamengo, by replacing Jesús, and found the donkeys in the water, fired after three demoralizing blows: 5 to 0 for Independiente Del Valle; 4 to 1 for São Paulo and 4 to 0 for Atlético Mineiro.
It is a game system that is very different from the ones our players are used to here and, therefore, requires a lot of time and intensive training to adapt. In the final stretch of this ongoing Brasileirão, it is practically impossible to imagine that it will work.
The ideal scenario for the transition to occur in the best way would be Abel to continue leading the team, until the end of the current championship, already living with Ramírez, who would take over from there. But, in conscience, does anyone think that the two coaches would agree to work like this, together? Very unlikely.
The rapid evolution obtained with Eduardo Coudet, at Inter itself, was only possible because the Argentine has a style of play with concepts much more similar to the football played here. The same can be said of Portuguese Abel Ferreira, who took over Palmeiras and managed to make it evolve quickly, without any tactical alterations. Small adjustments were enough, support for players who used to come and go, and clear guidelines that did not exist in the confusing times of Luxembourg.
Miguel Angel Ramírez is not like that. Inter will have to be patient with him. And Abel idem, in yet another situation of contempt for his work, which was already great, but which in recent years seems to have stopped in time and space.
Neymar’s bubble
One may dislike the FIFA awards, but it was clear, in this last edition, that the international football community does not see Neymar in the same way as the Brazilians, who in this case seem to live in a passionate bubble of admiration and devotion for the shirt number ten of PSG and the Brazilian team.
In the election, with players, coaches and journalists from all over the world, he was only voted number 1 by Messi (his friend and former partner in Barcelona), Thiago Silva (another friend and former partner of PSG), Tite (for reasons obvious), Gustavo Gómez (defense captain of the Paraguay team and Palmeiras player), Charles Akunnor (Ghana coach) and Márcio Barcellos (Guyana coach).
Very little for those who have the right to mock the results, saying that, in the opinion of the voters, PSG should not play football, but another sport. The truth is that the French championship is one of the weakest and most unbalanced among the major leagues in Europe and, therefore, its achievements are duly relativized. Either he wins the Champions League or the Cup, as the protagonist, or he can forget the dream of being the greatest in the world.
Registration: Neymar was not even in the selection of the year, also chosen by the same school. And, individually, he finished behind the Brazilian, naturalized Spanish, Thiago Alcântara, one of Mazinho’s sons. That’s the view we have of him out there. As much as this upsets our “pacheco” hearts.
