Can you fell it?

By: André | November 20th, 2009

Sometimes I have the feeling that I am not making my point here. Of course; English is not my mother language and despite having studied it for years I know I’ll never be as good as you guys are, even if I study English for the rest of my life. So, to make it easier to understand, I’ll show you the league tables to explain the current situation of the Brasileirão.

Keep in mind that Flamengo and São Paulo have three matches left and that Palmeiras has only two.

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Theoretically these are the title and Libertadores contestants. São Paulo and Flamengo will struggle for the title, say the critics and there is a great chance that Flamengo finishes next round in first position. I’ll show you why.

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As you can see, Flamengo will play at home against Goiás. The tickets are sold out since last week and Goiás gave up their rights to have visitor tickets, so it can be said that it will be a match only with our supporters. São Paulo will face Botafogo on an away match and for your information, Botafogo have to win or they’ll probably get relegated.

Our next matches will be against Corinthians and Grêmio, the first being away, but against a team that has no more motivation, because they are not fighting for the title and already are on next year’s Libertadores. Will finish the season facing Grêmio at beautiful, impressive and crowded Maracanã, celebrating the title after 17 years (I hope so).

São Paulo also have two easy rounds left after the match against Botafogo. At first, they’ll face Goiás and despite been an away game, Goiás, as Corinthians, have no more intentions. Then, counting for the last round, São Paulo have a match against Sport – the only team that has already been relegated – and until now nobody knows where the match will take place. São Paulo lost the right to play at home on the next match, but they are trying to cancel the decision taken by the court. Also, three of their players will be suspended for the next two matches and two other players will be judged by the court next week.

The last time Flamengo reached the title was the day I became their supporter. Not because of the championship victory, but as a consequence to the amazing show the supporters were doing at Maracanã. When I saw it on the television I thought “I wanna be part of this”.

And here I am right now, 17 years later, expecting a national title after Flamengo nearly being relegated on almost all these 17 years with a great chance to watch my team becoming victorious live, in the stadium, on the match against Corinthians. You have no idea how excited I am.

I know that this decade Flamengo has failed year after year when it comes to important decisions, such as the matches against Santo André and Cruzeiro (valid for the Copa do Brasil), and Defensor and América (valid for the Libertadores). And I also know that if I say that Flamengo will become champions they will fatefully lose it. So, I’ll only say that we have HUGE chances.

And to prove that we have players capable of winning the title, here is a video with Petkovic scoring a magnificent goal only two minutes before the referee blew his whistle pointing the end of the match. Pay attention to the video when it reaches 6:34. Do you recognize that player, number 17 player, behind the coach? Yes, that is Adriano.

Finally we have the chance to see Flamengo making more than 35 million people happy.

The two tables are adapted from GloboEsporte.com