Aaaaaaah, el fútbol! Una cajita de surpresitas, siempre!

First rule of football rivality in South America: There is no way brazilians and argies get well inside the pitch.

Second rule: believe truthfully in the first rule and never make any kind of predictions before a match between Brazil X Argentina.

Third rule: believe truthfully in both rules above. 

It's all about passion. It doesn't matter what kind of game or competition or sport is Brazilian and Argies always have a special rivalry between the nations. In football it can be called battle. Some jokes, healthy banters, not so friendly matches between them and there we go…

It's a fact that Brazilian footballers have more cups, more stars on TV ads, more tradition, but nowadays NOT more skills than their players. It's true! Is on Tv, anywhere. The Argentinean players are more skilled. 

It's difficult to disagree. Especially when in this America's Cup (a pretty much important tournament that finished today) Argentina seemed to want to show us that they have a great team ready to beat anyone, especially the Brazilian team.

They have Riquelme, Messi e Tevez. WOW In the bench: Crespo! WOW more skills than our poor team that with Dunga as a coach has Robinho as the unique "star" and also has Ronaldinho Gaúcho and Kaká denying (what a shame!) the fifth times winner of a World Cup t-shirt. Yes, Brazil, of course.

Argen-skilled-tina came to the Maracaibo's pitch believing truthfully in the second rule and pretty much sure that they would show us they are the best.

The most/best/funny provocative thing they did (and they are very good at it!) was the wonderful and also hilarious cover of the Argentinean daily ole.

happy skilled people

Who does have fun with it? They are good, Ole is probably the most provocative football daily paper EVR and I am pretty fun of them. You all have to agrre that it's necessary to be very creative to write (funny) things as : hoy, la final es contra unos de camiseta amarilla.

As a journalist I miss this kind of sense of humour in our sport journalism. I would like to have a gonzo-sport-journalism like this. We also don't have.To sum up, WE kind of like this kind of provocation.

Make us believe (accept is the right word) for a while (just today) in a team with  Dunga, Elano, Vagner love (we play with love, mates!) and Doni, as a goalkeeper. BY FAR less skilled than the happy "Coco" team (check the photo of ole again. They look happy,huh?)

Well, we won again. 3-0 No mentioning I DIDN'T see Riquelme, tevez or Messi playing today. We didn't  (this Dunga team did not, definitely) have the bets players in the pitch today, or even the best daily magazine/paper/whatever of this Sunday, but the America Cup is AGAIN ours. Even we won't get rid of Dunga. It is cool!

But perhaps today, the best joke was ours: the referee is married to a Brazilian woman and we DIDN'T need him to win. LOL

Gracias hermanos y Saludos desde unos de camiseta amarilla!  

There I go again! Talking pretty seriously now, everybody knows I don’t trust Dunga as the brazilian coach. Not because he didn’t have time yet to show his work as a coach but because he really doesn’t have skills to do this, or to keep us confident about his work. Simple like that!

I remember the friendly game against England, a month ago when I was totally sure that against a skilled team Dunga would have some problems. He did.  It reminds me the last world cup times when I was pretty sure Parreira would screw up (excuse my language) all things and he did. (Do you all remember France, don’t you?) The fact is, we don’t expect a coach that can bring us JUST good results (even we have some of the best players in the world) because football is a Pandora box, if it makes sense.

But we JUST need to have a coach that brings us some kind of confidence about his work.  Confidence is everything, isn’t it?  And sometimes I have (as woman that doesn’t understand too much of football tactics but is also enough interesting in the sport to give some opinions) the feeling he doesn’t have idea what he is doing. It’s like he just put a team in the pitch and see what will happens.  

No more excuses like “I don’t have Ronaldinho or Kaká”, please because Brazil has other players to do the job in The America's Cup, or any other cup.  And I also don’t accept the lack of “the brazilian way of play" excuse. We have Big Phil, don’t we?  I have this feeling Dunga is always lost in some-match-situations that some experienced coaches (Big Phil, even Luxemburgoand etc) could do/try/ something better, always. It’s also about have some lucky, of course, but Dunga seems to live in his own fantastic kingdom where everything is possible to do, even if you have DONI as your main goalkeeper. Yes, it’s a private joke that I am sure not just Brazilians will be able to understand.   

I just can remember now the post donde estas? when mautex spread his words about how we were (In fact, he was) being messed around in Venezuela by other team supporters that even have any kind of cups!!!!! It’s a shame we have to deal with it when we are also one of the best teams in the world. We are not trying to find some lame excuse to understand that Brazil isn’t the best team in the Cup. Mexico has skilled players; Argentina probably the favorite team to win the Cup.  

What we all want to know is what a heck is going on? Dunga’s fault? Because something is wrong and nobody here can wait (again) for the next World Cup to find out that we have the wrong coach (again)!  Well, If you want to be the coach of a fifth times World Cup winner you have to be prepared to deal with critics and at least, do something about it. It works like this in this country.

Anyway, Dunga doesn’t seem to be the right choice to bring us confidence to win the sixth world cup, for example. His team can bring the America’s Cup (We got Robinho, alright) or any other good result, but he is also very stubborn and arrogant sometimes to admit some mistakes like Doni, as a goalkeeper. We needs to change, quickly!

I am afraid but It’s impossible to understand these kind of things.   He doesn’t have experience as coach (even in regional teams) and day by day (even with 6-1 scores against Chile) he keeps me with the serious thought that "as a coach he was a good 1994 Brazilian team captain".  Maybe there is no translation to this, by any Brazilian or football lover can understand what I mean. Definitely! or Am I wrong?

Some weeks ago São Caetano’s coach Dorival Junior just said they have watched Grêmio’s documentaryA Batalha dos Aflitos as inspiration before the match against São Paulo at  Paulista’s Championship semi-final. It worked innit? São caetano beat São Paulo for 4-1, not mentioning the way they won it. Classic!  And now his team is pretty near of being the champion of this season.   

Alright, last night I just had the same thought. That Grêmio should be inspired by itself  to win São Paulo at Libertadores.  And all I saw was a non-so enthusiastic team that even in the first half had great opportunities of score but didn’t.  Not a Grêmio of Libertadores we are all used to.   

I know we are going to decide the future at Libertadores at home next Wednesday, anyway. And I also think Grêmio can do it easily, but at the same time I would like to see a São Caetano’s spirit on it. Maybe some São Caetano’s tapes can help Mano Menezes!