In Brazil, the calendar becomes a crutch for managers when the team is eliminated. Because when someone talks about shortening the State Championship to improve the calendar, the response is always “look, the Paulista Championship brings in a lot of money”, “look, I pledged my vote to director X”, “look…”. No one beats their chest and says they won’t accept this madness.
In recent years, just look at you, Ednaldo Rodrigues, president of the CBF, has been telling allies that he would like to reduce the number of state championships. Federations from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro immediately put their foot down. And so politics continues to prevail.
In addition to all this political game, by trying to blame the national team and the FIFA Date, we leave aside the fact that every player works with the goal of going to the national team and playing in a World Cup. You can’t think that the athlete goes to the training camp sad. I can assure you that they all go very happy and that the sadness comes when the FIFA Date ends.
The CBF should indeed be responsible for paying for Pedro’s treatment and wages. But it is impossible to say that the clubs are trying to change this situation. Simply because they really don’t try.
