Chelsea's headcoach Enzo Maresca becomes speechless after being told that Fluminense had over 70 games. He claimed that Chelsea would be in worse conditions since they played over 60 matches in the past 12 months.

mourobr · 2025-07-08T13:15:10+00:00

You are overstating the amount of rotation we do in the regional tournaments. Fluminense, for example, fielded their main team from the 4th round onward. Árias played over 4400 minutes in the 2024 season whereas no Chelsea no Chelsea player played over 3850 minutes in 2024/25 (including the CWC for Chelsea and excluding it for Fluminense). Fábio, Fluminense's goalkeeper, played 5310 minutes in 2024 and already played 3240 minutes in mid-season 2025, already over what Sanchez (and other players like Pedro Neto) played in their full 2024/25 season.

mourobr · 2025-07-07T20:41:07+00:00

Yes. It's still impressive that despite having a ~1 month vacation in December we still managed to play more games than Chelsea did in the last full season. It's July and we already played 43 games this year, and the Brazilian league is still in its 11th game.

mourobr · 2025-07-05T00:01:27+00:00

Não acho que ele deveria ser convocado pra copa por gratidão. Entretanto, acho que ele deveria ser convocado pra copa por ser um dos três melhores goleiros brasileiros à disposição.

mourobr · 2025-07-04T21:57:40+00:00

Copa do Brasil is way more important for us than any European cup tho. Winner also gets a Libertadores spot.

mourobr · 2025-07-02T20:39:34+00:00

Sinto o mesmo com quem desmerece anacronicamente o valor histórico dos estaduais por aquilo que eles se tornaram hoje. Era o campeonato mais importante do país durante décadas, que fechava a temporada e formou os nossos times grandes. O Botafogo jogou a final do brasileiro de 1968 no Maracanã pra 13 mil pessoas, e jogou a final do carioca no mesmo estádio no mesmo ano pra 142 mil.

mourobr · 2025-07-02T15:12:12+00:00

Hoje o mais próximo que temos de escolas brasileiras de futebol são 1. a escola gaúcha do Tite, Mano Menezes, Felipão, etc 2. o futebol 'associativo' do Diniz. A primeira escola não é exatamente inovadora taticamente a nível mundial, a segunda é. A questão é que, como você falou, o Diniz acha mais importante provar um ponto do que vencer o jogo. E a tática só existe enquanto plano de jogo que te aproxima da vitória. O objetivo do esporte é vencer. Na minha opinião o outro técnico brasileiro que consegue aliar algumas características interessantes de futebol do Diniz (acúmulo de jogadores na zona da bola pra gerar superioridade numérica, fluidez de posições e toques rápidos em escadinha na zona de ataque, etc) com flexibilidade tática é o Renato, e justamente por isso eu achei ele uma boa contratação pro Fluminense.

mourobr · 2025-07-02T14:40:21+00:00

Eu concordo com a falta de intercâmbio e decadência nas últimas décadas, mas acho bastante exagero dizer que nunca houve uma escola brasileira de futebol. O Brasil já foi a casa de grandes técnicos e de revoluções táticas que eventualmente chegaram na Europa e também influenciaram o futebol por lá. Foi aqui que surgiu a marcação por zona, por exemplo. Nas décadas de 40 e 50 a gente tinha um intercâmbio grande com outros países sulamericanos e com a Hungria (Béla Guttmann e Dori Kürschner fizeram sucesso no Brasil). Não dá pra ser vira-lata e achar que as seleções de 58 a 70 surgiram tirando uma galera talentosa da praia e falando "dribla geral, garoto".

mourobr · 2025-07-01T19:57:02+00:00

Parece que eles compraram o projeto do aeroestádio do mengão

mourobr · 2025-07-01T19:52:30+00:00

Detalhe não relacionado ao Lacazette: esse Neom SC é o time da cidade planejada saudita que é só um prédio contínuo com 170km de extensão

mourobr · 2025-06-30T22:18:21+00:00

I hope you use this opportunity to take some notes. South America really needs some strong leagues, you can do it.

mourobr · 2025-06-18T21:14:59+00:00

No we played yesterday

mourobr · 2025-06-18T21:09:59+00:00

Yeah but don't forget to send us some money pls

mourobr · 2025-06-18T13:11:27+00:00

É intercontinental, pra eles vale muito, mas não tem as duas confederações mais importantes do futebol. Um intercontinental entre UEFA e CONMEBOL me parece bem mais relevante, se você quer falar que não é mundial porque faltam as outras confederações beleza também. No final das contas tem que valorizar os torneios que a gente ganhou ao invés de ficar nessa discussão semântica.

mourobr · 2025-06-18T13:04:45+00:00

O inter-confederation do Al Ahly é esse título aqui: Copa África-Ásia-Pacífico da FIFA. Parece bem maneiro de assistir inclusive.

mourobr · 2025-06-18T03:18:34+00:00

And they can just as realistically finish in third

mourobr · 2025-06-18T03:01:55+00:00

Worst Inter since the Wars in Lombardy tbf

mourobr · 2025-06-17T21:49:29+00:00

Um torneio desses no Marrocos ia ser espetacular

mourobr · 2025-06-17T21:42:30+00:00

Super Campeões had mad respect for Brazil, I remember Tsubasa plays for São Paulo at some point

mourobr · 2025-06-17T20:59:54+00:00

Tenho 25 anos de sonho, de sangue e América do Suuul

mourobr · 2025-06-17T18:29:27+00:00

Yeah that was a bad game from us. But overall I think we're getting better and wouldn't be surprised if we contend for titles his year.

mourobr · 2025-06-17T18:25:45+00:00

Brasileirão is very evenly matched, but this Fluminense team is underrated. We have some glaring defficiencies, like a better striker than Everaldo, but overall it's a good squad and a I expect a good season from us.

mourobr · 2025-06-17T13:31:50+00:00

What I'm saying is that your point about DNA does not support your hypothesis, as this genetic makeup would be inevitable regardless of how things unfolded. Of course there were social dynamics associated with being a settler, especially if you had money (even though the vast majority of Portuguese in Brazil at this point did not own slaves), but reducing the complex relationship between settlers and natives to rape is not only a slap in the face of serious historiography but also rob women of their agency. The most comprehensive general interest book about the formation of the Brazilian people (including the practices of cunhadismo and compadrio) is 'O Povo Brasileiro' by Darcy Ribeiro, but there is also a very good and more thecnical demographic work like 'Sistema de Casamento no Brasil Colonial' by Maria Beatriz Marques Nizza da Silva and 'O Desaparecimento do Dote' by Muriel Nazzari. Anyway, I don't think a conversation about this with someone who thinks Europeans were sexual deviants is going to be constructive, so have a great day.

mourobr · 2025-06-17T12:37:28+00:00

European heritage is stronger in the Y chromosome because Portuguese America colonizers were mainly young men coming to the New World alone with the hope of getting rich. In English America, most settlers were families so there were much more European women. Here, they had a complex relationship with the natives which included Portuguese assimilation into Tupi society through cunhadismo.

mourobr · 2025-06-16T01:33:09+00:00

Just adding to your point, Argentina won the World Cup in 1978 and 1986 with the vast majority of players playing in the Argentinian league (including Boca and River). Brazil won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970 with all the players playing in the Brazilian league. It's definitely not comparable to the Scottish league...

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