Robinhophobia

It’s quite impressive the covering about Robinho’s case. I can tell. It reminds me some years ago when I was living in a building next to his mother’s apartment here in Santos and every day we noticed the 24/7 presence of press and agencies looking for information about his mother’s kidnapping.

Since he was a Santos F.C. player he was used to be in the spotlight, anyway. Not just because his natural talent as footballer but also for being the typical and favorite stereotype of Brazilian, poor boy that changed his life due to football. Everybody living in this city knows about Robinho’s trajectory and he was for a period of time here seeing as an example of professional.

Right after he left Santos to live the European dream of play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, Real Madrid, people also knew that a young boy who started to play in a very simple pitch in the city of Sao Vicente – would have some difficult moments in his career in case he wouldn’t grow up enough to deal with that EUROpean dream.

 to play or not to play?

And the boy who still young was the main responsible to bring Santos F.C. a Championship in 2002, after more than 20 years of total lack of glories really would make a brilliant career far from Brazil if it was a simple detail: maturity enough to deal with unpredictable issues. And he was successful in his first years of European dream until he started being treated as an ordinary player.

This is not just a common sense of real Madrid’s supporters but also to part of Brazilian supporters he is not the same anymore. The press here also keeps being a bit harsh when the issue is Robinho Even the Brazilian team performances- not something exciting anyway if you have a coach as Dunga in charge of your team- have being a nightmare with or without Robinho’s presence it seems he is still in the spotlight, for bad to good.

 But since Big Phil has showed genuine interesting at working with him at Chelsea, it became a real rollercoaster. While Robinho is determinate to play for Chelsea, Real Madrid is pretty sure the transferring won’t be done so soon. Not without the asked money involved being paid. After his press conference when he affirmed his interesting of leaving Real Madrid to join Chelsea I could understand he also lost the good opportunity of show himself as much more mature player.

He doesn’t need to be more mature, anyway. He’s still young and he has a manager to deal with the situation but it seems his press conference as well as the coverage around his transferring to U.K. is a bit overwhelming, especially when the football he is presenting- for the same coverage- is showed as a very ordinary thing nowadays.

so, is this a real Robinhophobia? that fear of being out of spotlight even it means to talk bad or good things about him. you tell me!

to stay or not to stay?

There is something wrong in the air and we still don’t know what it is. Is he guilty or innocent? Is he hero or villain? Is he an extraordinary or ordinary player? The only thing we know is that this brazilian-spanish-english soap opera keeps Robinho in the spotlight for bad to good. All tabloids are talking about him; even there is a bunch of wrong information on it such as São Vicente –city where he was born in- showed as a poor district of Santos. São Vicente is a city and not part of Santos. As well as Buenos  Aires is not the capital of this country. Nervermind!

If his destiny in the football is a bit blurred in the present moment, the only certain we have is that under Big Phil’s wings Robinho probably will have to show more service in the pitch and starting being on the news exclusively because his football and not his personal issues. Pretty much different from his correctly situation with the coaches he is used to work with. And this is something brazilian supporters expect, someone able to bring the old good Robinho back to the field!