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With Gabriel Vaquer, from UOL, in Aracaju (SE)
The elimination of Flamengo in Libertadores generated relief and celebration in the corridors of the Globe. Nothing against the performance of the team on the field. The “crowd” was based on the broadcaster’s business interests.
With the Rio team out of competition broadcast by SBT on weekends, Globo celebrates the fact that it can use the Rio team on Wednesdays in the weeks when the South American tournament matches are played and that the broadcaster has the grill open, as it terminated a contract with Conmebol.
And that will begin on January 6, a Wednesday, in the middle of the week when the first matches of the Libertadores semifinals will probably be played with other Brazilian teams: Palmeiras, Santos, Inter and Grêmio are still up for grabs. CBF dismembered four more rounds of Serie A on Wednesday night (2) and marked Flamengo x Fluminense, for round 28, for January 6.
It is likely that Goiás x Flamengo, for the 30th round, is scheduled for January 13, another Wednesday and in the middle of the week when the return matches in the Libertadores semifinals will be played. The Corinthians and São Paulo games, in the São Paulo square, will also be played on Wednesdays, as was already happening.
Globo has asked CBF to anticipate the fourth matches of the Brazilian’s weekend round to compose its grid in the weeks that the national championship is stopped by the South American competitions. Corinthians has been used more, but on the 9th of next week, for example, it will be São Paulo x Botafogo’s turn, a late match on matchday 18.
In the following week, on the 16th, will be the second leg of the quarterfinals for Libertadores and Sul-Americana and Globo has already ordered two games, confirmed by CBF: São Paulo x Atlético-MG, which can be worth the leadership of the championship, and Atlético-GO x Fluminense. It was not possible to pull Flamengo because the rival Rubro-Negro in next weekend’s round, the 26th, will be Bahia. Salvador’s team will play for the quarterfinals of the South American Championship.
With a contract until 2024 for all the media of the Brazilian Championship, Flamengo and Globo lived a 2020 with a turbulent relationship. The Rio club was the main articulator of the provisional measure signed in June by President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) that changed the rules of broadcasting rights in Brazil for four months (until the MP expires and does not become law ).
No championship deal Carioca-2020, Globo saw Flamengo broadcast a state match on the club’s platform against Boavista, a rival with a current contract and, in the opinion of the announcer, did not allow the broadcast because it was prior to the MP’s text. This caused Globo to end the Rio Football Federation and the Carioca clubs.
CBF gives away the New Year’s break
The CBF decided to make a change to its January 2021 calendar, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brazilian, the Copa do Brasil and the South American tournaments (Libertadores and Sul-Americana) will only end next year. Due to the breakdown of the rounds announced on Wednesday (2), teams will get free time on the weekend of January 2 and 3, that is, right after New Years Eve.
To stick to the schedule, the CBF scored a full return for the middle of the week of January 6 and 7, but there is a problem: the Brazilian teams that are in the semifinals of the Libertadores and the Sudamericana will have to have postponed the games Brazilians. There will be, for example, a Palmeiras x Corinthians, the team led by Abel Ferreira is already in the quarterfinals of the Libertadores.
Santos or Grêmio, who can meet in the quarterfinals of Libertadores, Inter and Bahía and Vasco, these two for South America, can also have games postponed. The Brazilian has suffered with postponements since his start in August, with the classification messy with teams with more or fewer matches.
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