champion light

Chapter 81 The Chaotic Football Kingdom

In the second round of the championship, Sao Paulo challenged Gama away.

Gama is a team from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. This team is not strong, and it is definitely not a traditional strong team in Brazilian football.

However, one thing this team did was very sensational-they took the Brazilian Football Association directly to civil court.

That was still in 1999.At the end of the league that year, the traditional strong team Botafogo faced the embarrassing result of relegation.But as a traditional giant in Brazilian football, how can they easily accept the bad luck of relegation?

So the Brazilians, who are good at exploiting loopholes in the rules, began to use their brains.

According to the rules of the Brazilian Football Association, there are four teams that need to be relegated this season, but it is not the final league points of this season that determine who is relegated, but the average of the first stage round-robin points of the 1998 and 1999 seasons.Why are there such strange rules?This is to protect the interests of those big clubs, to ensure that the traditional giants of Brazil's domestic football will not be relegated due to accidents.

However, such a weird decision is not original to the Brazilian Football Association. They learned the rules of the Argentine domestic league. In Argentina, they even need to refer to the results of the previous three seasons.

But even so, those giants still don't give the Brazilian Football Association face.

According to this rule, Rio de Janeiro's traditional strong team Botafogo will definitely be relegated.

Botafogo had a humiliating 1-0 loss to Sao Paulo this season.But Sao Paulo was using a striker named Sandro Irohi at the time.Strictly speaking, the forward has not yet fully become a member of the Sao Paulo team because of his suspected age fraud and transfer fee disputes. Therefore, the Sao Paulo club is an illegal use of players.The Botafogo club relied on this to sue Brazil's highest court of arbitration for sports.The Court of Arbitration for Sport naturally ruled that Botafogo won the case, and this game was regarded as Botafogo's victory.In this way, Botafogo not only got an extra three points, but the average points in the two seasons also reached the standard that can leave the relegation zone.

However, in this way, another traditional Brazilian giant, the Brazil International Team, will be ranked fourth from the bottom and need to be relegated.Of course, the international team did not dare to let it go.Fittingly, Sao Paulo also used Sandro Irohi in a game against them, which ended 2-2.The international team followed suit and appealed to the Supreme Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the international team finally won.

However, the result of the appeal of the two giants made the Jiama team, which had not been relegated first, but because of their extra points, they finally ranked fourth from the bottom and had to be relegated to the second division.This team was promoted from the second division to the first division with great difficulty last season. They only participated in the competition for one season, and they had to bear such unfair treatment. Naturally, they were outraged.They directly bypassed the Court of Arbitration for Sport and took the Brazilian Football Association to a civil court.

If you just take the Brazilian Football Association to a civil court, it is not a big deal.

In Brazil, the reputation and image of the National Football Association is not very good.

The real sensation is actually the consequences of this incident...

The civil court ruled that the Garma team won, and they can continue to stay in the first division in the 2000 season.FIFA, which has always opposed the team to sue in civil courts, immediately decided to ban the Jiama team from participating in all levels of competition.This makes the Brazilian Football Association in a dilemma.If it is in accordance with the laws of the country, then the Gama team should be allowed to participate.But FIFA also banned the Gama team from participating in the competition.There is still less than a month before the start of the league, and no one knows whether there will be any organization to undertake the game.In order to protest this absurd thing, there was even a fan who went on hunger strike in front of the Brazilian Football Federation headquarters in Rio.

In Brazilian football, the "Thirteen Clubs" are very powerful, and they can already affect the football of the entire country.Although the name is "Thirteen Clubs", there are actually twenty big clubs.

These big clubs figured out a way, and they decided to hold a one-off event, the Havelange Cup, independent of the Brazilian Football Federation.Any Havelange Cup and National League parallels would have to be cleverly redesigned in order to legally get out of this unruly Garma team.So a total of [-] teams were invited to participate in four levels called "units" and color-coded.It seems that you can get away with it.

But how could the Jiama team swallow this breath?They took it to court again and won for themselves the right to participate in the "blue unit", which is the first division in disguise.When the Havelange Cup finally started, the participating teams expanded to 110 six teams. Yes, this event became the largest event in the history of Brazilian football.

Even by the flawed standards of the original tournaments, the Havelange Cup was poorly organized.In the "blue unit", some teams played three more home games than others, a third of games were rescheduled, and one team didn't play a game for a month...

Whether a team is relegated or not eventually led to such a chaotic event, this is Brazil, and this is Brazilian football.

Many people's impression of the chaos of Brazilian football matches may be because of this-although the previous Brazilian leagues were chaotic enough, the Havelange Cup appeared at the turn of the century with the development of the media, so it was naturally recognized by more people.

In Brazil, Brazilians can always find a way around the rules whenever the need arises.In Brazil, rules are meant to be overturned, and people are used to looking for connections instead of following rules and regulations.

Perhaps this is why Brazil is called "South American China".In a way, Brazil and China are really similar...

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There is nothing to say about Sao Paulo's away game against Gama. The game itself may not be as interesting as Gama's original disturbance.

Rongguang did not score or assist in this game, but Sao Paulo, who is strong and in good form, easily defeated Gama 2-0 in the away game.

Although there were no goals or assists, Rongguang's performance was recognized by many people.Especially those narrators.

From their professional perspective, judging whether a player's performance is good or not cannot simply be judged by whether he scores goals and assists.

Especially for a player with a single characteristic like Rong Guang, even if he doesn't score a goal, he can play a tactical role in involvement, which is already amazing.

Only Rong Guang looked very depressed when he left the stage.

Because he didn't get anything except the appearance fee, and the goal award and assist award were all in vain.

He actually worked really hard to score in the game.

He keeps trying to shoot.

Unfortunately, he didn't score a goal today.

Kaka played 5 more minutes in this game than in the first game, he played in No. 705 minutes.

Glory was replaced.

But he didn't score either.

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After the game, because Rong Guang didn't score a goal, the voices criticizing Osvaldo's stubbornness increased.

They believe that the reason for Kaka's poor performance is that too little time was given to him.

The last game was 10 minutes, and this game has increased to 15 minutes.

What is 15 minutes enough for?
Kaka went up to warm up and the game was over!
What else do you expect him to do?
Some media published Kaka's depressing expression of being exhausted during the game.

Images are always more powerful than words.

This picture alone can make countless Kaka fans, especially female fans, feel sad and angry.

However, Kaka did not publicly express his dissatisfaction with his current situation. He just trained harder and waited for an opportunity.

The pressure is all on Sao Paulo coach Osvaldo.

The hosts of some TV shows even teased him on their own talk shows.

"Who is the most handsome man in Sao Paulo now? Of course it is the head coach of Sao Paulo, Osvaldo de Oliveira! He actually ignored the protests and anger of tens of thousands of female fans, and insisted on pressing Kaka on the bench! What courage, if it were me..."

The host shook his head and smacked his lips. "I might have knelt in front of Kaka and begged him to play! Don't mess with anyone, don't mess with women! Especially fanatical groupies!"

The audience in the audience let out a burst of laughter.

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In the third round of the league, Sao Paulo is away again, this time their opponent is Atletico Parana.

This is also the first time that Rongguang has been in Brazil for more than half a year, and he has met a team that is not from the state of Sao Paulo or Rio.

Atlético de Parana is a team from Curitiba, Parana.

In Parana State, they won [-] state league championships, which is considered a strong team in Parana State.But in Brazil as a whole, they are not a great team.

In Brazil, even the state of Parana is not considered a football powerhouse.

But it is such a team, and now they are the defending champions-they were the champions of the Brazilian National Championship last season!
The Brazilian football in the new century is very chaotic, not only the competition system is chaotic, but the situation is also chaotic.Due to the lack of superstars, the strengths of the teams are closer.Therefore, the chance of winning the championship becomes even greater.You must know that they also experienced a coaching change last season when Atlético Parana won the championship.

There are no big-name stars in the team. From the head coach to the players, they are all little-known characters. It is such a team that won the national championship last season.

And such a team defeated Sao Paulo in the quarter-finals of the championship!

At that time, Sao Paulo had the veteran Leonardo, Baptista who was in good form, and the rising star Kaka who had just emerged in the Rio Sao Paulo Championship. They still lost 1:2 away to Atlético Parana, and in the last 10 minutes of the game, Alex Mineiro, the top scorer of Atlético Parana, scored a lore.

If it hadn't been for Atletico Parana, maybe the league champion last season would have been Sao Paulo.

This time, going to the away game, the Sao Paulo team is maintaining a revenge mentality.

With the prestige of the Rio-Sao Paulo Championship, Sao Paulo killed the Mario Celso Petraglia Stadium in Curitiba.

(End of this chapter)