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Alvinegro descends in the Brasileirão with the fewest victories among giants and with doubts about how it will be in the future
Do you know what is worse for a club considered great to be demoted? Be demoted twice. It is three. And seeing that his reality is much closer to the fall than to the titles, to the point that his greatness begins to be threatened in the future, since, however beautiful his past is, he does not enter the field.
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Botafogo did, between 2020 and now 21, what will most likely turn out to be the worst season in its entire history and, for the third time in its existence, it fell to the second division by showing a total inability to compete in the football elite. Brazilian.
The 1-0 defeat, at home, against Sport, for the 34th round of Brasileirão 2020, mathematically decreed what many already expected. The fall of Botafogo to Serie B.
The descents are traumatic regardless of the size of the club, but the clash of realities coupled with the revolt of a crowd accustomed to other aspirations, even if it is because of the stories that you have become used to hearing, make the falls of giants traditionally. most were felt.
It’s like that saying: the greater the height, the greater the fall. In the past, CBF even used to protect its giants from degradation, and in some cases it made this clear even in the regulations of the Brasileirão editions. When that changed, the first descents of giants were always accompanied by a sense of drama. A valid sadness, but with a feeling of strangeness that was dissipating.
Fluminense, Palmeiras, Corinthians, Grêmio, Internacional, Atlético-MG, Cruzeiro and Vasco have already fallen. Some, more than once, Cruz-Maltino, who is still threatened to fall in this Brasileirão, has played in Serie B three times.
The general grievance of the third descent for Botafogo not only covers the economic part, and the very doubt of how a club is going to do “on the brink of bankruptcy” (to use the words insistently said by the Alvinegro leaders during the last years) keep is an image of such a dramatic situation.
Compared to all the other giants mentioned above, Botafogo is now the only member of the group of the so-called “12 big clubs” that has more declines than Brazilian titles. Alvinegro was National Champion in 1968 and 1995 … and hit bumps in 2002, 2014 and now for the 2020 season.
The worst relegation of a major in Brasileirão is present due to the lower number of victories won (4 and with a possible maximum that this scenario would not change), but also because of what this third fall can symbolize for the club. Will Botafogo be able to return to the elite in 2022? If you succeed, what will your struggle be? Run safe campaigns in Serie A and maybe dream of drinks in the mountains or simply avoid becoming a “yo-yo club”? What defines the greatness of a club?
