“The football cemetery is full of favorites”. Renato Paiva, coach of the Botafogo, confirmed the warning that teams such as El Palmeiras had prepared, against which he can now cross in a club World Cup that has jumped through the air thanks to the effect caused by the teams from outside Europe, with Brazil at the forefront of the rebellion. The triumph of the Fogão, champion of the liberated, knocked down the PSG and Luis Enrique did not hide in excuses: “It is the team that has best defended us.” Before the Boca draw against Benfica occurred; Then came Flamengo's victory to Chelsea, Inter Miami al Palmeiras, Monterrey's draw against Inter Milan, Fluminense's matched against Borussia Dortmund …
Bosman law that changed everything
A new order that a Brazilian journalist celebrated at the FIFA Hotel with Sneaker: “SWOT-SE, Bosman!”, Which was also read on social networks. Some have also agreed Mbappé's statement by underestimating football from South America. But the quoted is a clear allusion to the man who changed football forever and that the Club World Cup is getting to a previous stage. When Latin America competed and even dominated European teams, which were not financial or footballically stronger.
One of the aspects that best explained the balance of powers was the limitation of foreign players in European templates. Until Bosman, a Belgian player without too much sign, denied his case. At the end of the contract with the Liège of his country he wanted to sign for a Gallic club, the Dunkerque. He was a free agent, but his club demanded compensation for transfer that Bosman denounced arguing that this violated the right to free movement of workers in Europe.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) proved him right and that sentence marked in 1995 a before and after in the regulation of the signing market. In practice, this allowed players to leave freely at the end of contract, without the club of origin having to receive compensation. As a protection formula, the termination clauses were set. But the world changed completely through football. Since then there has been an incessant transfer of players to the old continent.
The drought that cut the bootafogo before the PSG
This, logically, has been translated into an incontestable domain of European complexes against South Americans and other latitudes every time the faces in short international tournaments have been seen and adapted to the calendar of the dominant power. The goal of Igor Jesus, fashion striker in Brazil, to the PSG to give Victory to Botafogo cut a historical series that went back to December 16, 2012. In Yokohama, Japan, a country that welcomed the World Cup with periodicity for a while, Corinthians defeated Chelsea with a bit of Paolo Guerrero.
More than 13 years of fleeting meetings in competitions prepared so that the Champions champion warm his season with a dangerously prepared tournament. You just need to see the Intercontinental Cup in which Real Madrid comfortably waited in the final for the rest of the teams to tear. Among them, Botafogo himself, who lost to Pachuca, the opponent who will measure whether Xabi Alonso's poor debut was the principle of growth or a reality that will not come out in the US.
European clubs are being victims of their own cache: they receive up to 38 million dollars for 15 in South America and the less than 10 that Mexican teams receive. This, logically, forces them to play in the 'Prime Time' Europe (from 9:00 p.m.) that coincides with the 15:00 hours of the US. This forces them to play on the edge of the worst hours of heat and on a strip of the day when teams like Real Madrid are little accustomed. But, as the employees of the teams consulted by this means say, “it is the same for all.”
The Superaturated Calendar of Brazil
European representatives know that hiding in external factors does not shorten the distance that should be with the rest. It is the theory, although the practice is demonstrating that in South America there are teams with great tactical development, beyond what the forces can inidize. It is true that for Conmebol teams, the appointment comes at an ideal time, in the middle of the season, while for Europeans it is an addition at the end of a long campaign. However, sources from Brazilian clubs remember that in their country years that the calendar is equally saturated.
E January to April the state championships are played, such as the Paulista or the Carioca. From there, the Brazilian. Between February and November, the Do Brazil Cup is disputed, to which the Libertadores or South American must be added, in addition to the Supercopa do Brazil. In total, between 70 and 80 games such as those accumulated by players in Europe and who compete with their selections. The double state and national calendar has always generated criticism due to its saturation, but has remained immovable and, in the end, has ended up generating resistance scenarios.
From there, each club has its casuistry. Palmeiras, who has tied with Porto and won Al Ahly is a team with a firm competitive nucleus, formed by soccer players such as Weverton, Gustavo Gómez or Raphael Veiga. But the key to everything is Abel Ferreira. The Portuguese was the architect of a historic panties that became one of Europe's great 'underdogs' for years. Since 2020 he has managed to implement in the club from which Endrick has come out or Vitor Roque has returned, a style that mixes the best of all continents.
Filipe Luis's flamengo, ascending candidate
His great enemy has been precisely the Botafogo, of the American tycoon John Textor, hence his particular interest for the Club World Cup to be a success. It will be a way to compensate for the difficulties that Eagle Football Holdings crossed, a group that also controls Lyon's Olympique. Hence the immense joy of business histrionic for winning the PSG, to which he also has in his wide portfolio of adversaries. Botafogo made history by winning last Libertadores for the first time in its history.
The helmsman of the club that has Garrincha as a legend is another Portuguese coach: Artur Jorge, who has a balanced payroll, but above all very competitive, of which Igor Jesus, Savarino or Arthur Cabral are part. Brazil, with an economically more profitable model than the Argentine, has been a magnet for talent preparators. To those commented, we must unite Filipe Luis, who hit the table by knocking to Chelsea in a match that went back in the final stretch.
There are different examples of a consolidated revolution after the first week of the Club World Cup, which has only shaped and consistency the rebellion of the teams outside Europe. FIFA internally celebrates it, because it allows younow, plunged into a decolonizing fear that has altered the favoritism quotas.
