Richarlison’s stark definition of Brazil’s elimination from the World Cup: ‘It was worse than losing a relative’

Football, especially in South America, is lived in a dramatic way. Footballers don’t want to take to the streets after a tough defeat. Great victories are experienced as life’s greatest triumphs. And the madness translates into the fans, who are as involved as the players.

This is why it is often said that, starting from the protagonists themselves, we must contribute to “lowering a change”. Without leaving passion aside, have fun and experience this sport in the right measure, in a rational way and not as a drama.

richarison, ​Meanwhile, it doesn’t seem to circulate this way and has left a strong ruling about deleting the The selection of Brazil in the quarterfinals of the World Cup: “It was worse than losing a family member” he said in dialogue with ESPN Brazil.

The whole world was preparing for a semi-final between Argentina and Brazil in Qatar 2022. And it was there, one step away. On Friday 9 December, even the most fanatical River fans sometimes forgot the fourth anniversary of the Madrid final that day and had all their thoughts on the Scaleneta crossing against the Netherlands. Canarinha, for her part, was to play for Croatia.

Those led by Lionel Scaloni they would have done their homework, that night in Lusail which will be remembered forever for the sayings of Van Gaal that warmed up the previous one, Topo Gigio of Messi and the “What are you looking at, fool? Go over there” from Leo to Weghorst, the Dutch striker who scored twice and took the match to penalties.

Tité’s men, on the other hand, fell into the Croatian trap, despite having taken the lead at the start of the first half of extra time with a great goal from Neymar, and lost on penalties. The illusion of one of the great candidates for the title has vanished thanks to the effectiveness of goalkeeper Livakovic under the three sticks.

“It was difficult to recover; to this day I still see the videos on the networks and it saddens me, but we have to move on.” She said richarison, he started that afternoon at the Education City Stadium and was replaced in the 83rd minute by Pedro.

The award that Richarlison took from Qatar

A few days after the end of the World Cup, FIFA has chosen what, in its opinion, were the ten best goals of Qatar 2022 and there was one by Richarlison, the sensational volley on his debut against Serbia.Also that of Enzo Fernández to Mexico (it should be noted that that of Di María was not presented to France) and the one that underwent the Selection, that of the Arab Salem Al Dawsari.

The 10 chosen by FIFA are as follows: Salem Al Dawsari vs. Argentina, Richardson vs. Serbia and vs. South Korea, Cody Gakpo vs. Ecuador, Enzo Fernandez vs. Mexico, Vincent Aboubakar vs. Serbia, Luis Chavez vs. Saudi Arabia, Kylian Mbappé vs. Poland, Paik Seung-Ho vs. Brazil and Neymar vs. Croatia.

Through a vote carried out among the members of FIFA+, the multimedia platform of football’s governing body, the winning goal was announced on Thursday 22 December and it was precisely that of Tottenham’s Brazilian striker: he controlled the ball with his foot left foot inside the area, he turns around and with a sort of Chilean kick leaves the Serbian goalkeeper without reaction. Big goal.