FRIEND IN DEED - Was It A Final After All , Or Was It A “ PARTING – GIFT ” Match :: It Was “ RIDICULOS ” …..





Pic - :: A letter From  The Office Of Mr Lula, Ex-President Of Brazil For My Consultancy Rendered To Them On Their Football -Mr Tite Take My Words Seriously 

Was It A Final After All , Or Was It A “ PARTING – GIFT ” Match :: It Was “ RIDICULOS ” ….. FRIEND IN DEED

I would not say that it was FIXED. I do not think that it would go all that way. I would not even believe that. But ofcourse after watching the match I was fully convinved that  “ IT WAS A PARTING GIFT MATCH ”.. a GIFT for SOMEBODY from someone who ADORES him as a footballer.

One might be wondering about whom I’m writing this piece and whom I’m referring all about. Let me make it open and FRANK – I’m writing about the Copa-America Finals that was played yesterday and that Argentina won it beating Brazil by 1-0 .


Pic - :: Messi And Neymar After The Match , with The Argentine Football President Watching Them On July 11th . 2021

To me it did NOT appeat at all a MATCH and never did I feel that was a match. I felt that there were TWO teams out playing a MORNING PRACTICE match for warming themselves up. Even after the finals were over- the acts and the scenario was such that it was out in open that this match was like a PARTING GIFT to a player whose team was not and had not been winning any trophies for almost about THREE decades ( 28 years) and for the BEST PLAYER of the WORLD who ever since making his  debut for his country had NOT won even a SINGLE title for him or his country.

The Real And The Actual Truth That Cannot DEFY The “ LOGICS ” -:

The real TRUTH of the matter and the logic is MESSI is 34 years of age. Next World Cup would see him crossing his 35th year of his life. Then the WC 2026 would see him crossing his 39th years of life….

He is jobless now. The F.C.Barcelona JINX has been broken and he is out of that club now. It was Messi who had brought Neymar to F.C.Barcelona .It was Messi who had said the the management of F.C.Barcelona that Neymar upfront him would bring him the title elusive the FOOTBALL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP which is always held at Japan with YOKOHAMA always being the sponsor. Messi had won that title walloping Santos by 4-0 some season before when Neymar was making his international forays as a young coot of 19 then. However the FCBarcelona afterwards and thereafter started losing the steam especially after Spain had won that WC 2010 at Africa. He wanted a striker upfront to hang on onto his JUICE in terms of pass and feed it to the goalkeeper of the  opponent team and he recommended it to the management of club and Neymar was in F. C Barcelona.

Neymar entry in that club brought these two together and they jelled as a GREAT FRIEND in the pitch and away from it. There were many a skill that Neymar had brought it to the club at Barcelona all ORIGINAL and TACTICAL as those were the Brazilian trademark but it was Messi who advised him that IN MODERN FOOTBALL THOSE SKILLS WILL BRING YOU A HEAVY BODY CHARGE. PLAY THE GAME FOR THE TEAM ALONG WITH YOUR TEAM MATES AND NOT FOR SELF. BRILLIANCE IS NOT APPRECIATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL MARK. Neymar took to the advise and he so far has NOT played them on the field at all though his has some which could really make the EYE BALL shrink due to the magic he would display….

Neymar with Messi at the back brought him 62 goals for F C barcelone in the very second year and it was that the “ N-M ” of F C Barcelona started . The bond and the friendship grew stronger and more stronger.

Pic - :: Neymar and Messi again after a match sharing their private moment after the match was broken on July 11th 2021 .This photo was send to me at my e-mail by a Brazilan Club Footbal Coach and the clipping is from a Brazilain Newspaper 

Messi with Neymar upfront and the goals that he would score off Messi’s assists made Messi far more a more improved player with his confidence increasing by folds and the wins coming off more strongly.Such was the combination that in one game F C Barcelona defeated Real Madrid by 5-0 and in another game, trailing against the Bayern Munich in the European Club Championshio by 1-5 the F C Barcelone with strikes from Saurez, Messi ( 2) and Neymar (2) went on to beat them by a margin of 7-5 to enter the finals and ultimately wining the championship.  Such  was the combination and such wee the game they were playing for F.C Barcelona. Strong was the poutput on the field and STRONGEST was the FRIENDSHIP growing day by day

The “ PALL” Of “ GLOOM ”

Neymar was winning it for Brazil. He was the part of the Brazilian team that had won the 2013 Copa America Cup . He missed an Olympig Gold at the Olympics 2014 but won it at 2018 when Brazil beat Germany in the shoot out in the finals. He won the INTERCONTINENTAL FEDRATION CUP in  2013 beating Spain by 3-0 . He was winning all the WORLD TITLE but Messi was strucked at the ONLY Olympic Gold that he won it for Argentina in 2008.

Time left and had left Messi far behind as from the age of 18 when he started playing for Argentina till the age of 34 now, for the last 16 years he did not win any tournament for him or Argentina on the World scene. His cupboard was empty but Neymar was adding to his. The ONLY WORLD CUP title has not come to the cupboard of Neymar but nothing did come to Argentina or Messi.

Argentina had last won the Copa America or any TITLE at the international level in 1993 when they under Maradona had won the Copa America. From then till now they were under the drought . This was the LAST chance for Messi and Argentina to win atleast ONE International title…..

The Brazilain “ DIP ” in form raises many a question - ::

Neymar was down with COVID – 19 and he missed the Copa America before that in 2019 when he was sick and was advised not to play football for about 6 month in 2019. Inspite his absence the Tite led and coached Brazil had won that championship.

Brazil in the qualifiers of this World Cup as as GOOD as QUALIFIED for the WC- 2022. They have so far played six games and won every game, their highest victory being 7-0 against Bolivia and in the run so far they had beaten Argentina by 3-0 and even Uruguay by 5-1.In the first two Copa-America thet outplayed their opponent Peru by 4-0 and then Venezuela by 3-0.


Pic - :: A Brazilian Support Staff Winking At Messi After The Match 

It was from their 3rd match that we saw the Brailian changing their half the squad against Colombia to finish the stalement at 1-1 after conceding the goal first. Therefater we saw them playing football of the lowest quality beating their opponent by 1-0 each in the finals.The spark and the SPUNK that the Brazilain produced for the first eight games starting from their 7-0 victory over Bolivia and then winning it against Venezuela by 3-0 before squeezing the juice of Argentina by 3-0 and Uruguay by 5-1 was totally missing from the Brazilain.It was like the Brazilain team was something of a toddler winning the games by just toddling and the luck helping them out to win.

The Finals Against Argentina-::

No sooner that Brazil entered the finals the statement of Neymar- I want Argentina to win as there are many a friends that I have in that team was something that went and broke all hell loose.

It is a fact that Neymar is playing with Di maria at Saint Germain paris. He had Messi asking him to help him with a club at France and it was Neymar who has asked Messi to be at ease as he and Thiago Silva the central stopper of Brazil have approached the club authorities at St Germain to rethink of bringing in Messi. The actions are being followed. For this the St Germain have already released Pogba to Manchester United. Maybe Messi will again play with Neymar at St Germain Paris. May be- this is my guess. On the contorary Christiano Ronaldo has asked his club at Italy to get Messi but the Argentine star wants to play with his Brazilain FRIEND and FOE when they play for their club and when they play for their country.


Pic - A Toddler Football Student Of Brazil Left Completely SHATTERED After Yesterday ie July 11th 2021 After Brazil Lost The Match To Argentina 

The manner that we saw the dip in the form of that Brazilian team which in the eight games before that 1-1 draw against Colombia in the recent Copa-America , where the Brazilian had scored on an average four goals a match ( about 32 goals) that they had scored to find it that hard scoring against teams like Peru, and Chile was astonishing. It was something a very poor football that Brazil was playing. Again after the semis where they qualified for the finals, and with Neymar throwing that kind of a statemet it was very hard to make any conclusion of what Neymar was talking all about- but the finals made it clear….. These kind of a dip-in-form, all of a sudden really have made the Brazilains at home wonder , and yesterday after the match even the toddlers who had come to see and watch the game were left STRANDED, DISJOINT and in PAINS.

After the finals when both of them shared that “ FS – FB ”  space  it was far more clear that all arrangements were made atleast for Messi to walk away with his FIRST International title for Argentina after a playing career of 16 years and giving Argentina their FIRST title in about three decades.

It is very clear that Argentina is NOT going to win the World Cup 2022 with this kind of a team whose players commit such a number of fouls. In yesterday’s match Neymars SHORT was TORN OFF by the Argentines and Paquetta’s short was DRILLED – HOLE in the course of the match. Both had to replace them. The personal fouls committed on Neymar was as big as 18 with the number of fouls committed by the Argentines were 36 in the entire match which means that it was ONE-FOUL-IN-EVERY-THREE-MINUTES

These kind of referring will never find a place in the World Cup proper but of recent it is observed that the referees deliberately favour the European teams especisally the Italians, English, French  and the Spanish teams – the last world Cup saw France getting as many as SIX penalties, even one in the finals in the seven matches they played.That makes a lot of difference. In the quarters against the Belgium side there was a CLEAN penalty which the referee did not give it to Brazil when Neymar was brought down inside the box DELIBRATELY by the Belgium players. All efforts for a penalty and hue and cry fell into the deaf ears of the referee then.

The Tale Of Two Goals At Copa America Yesterday -:

Many consider it as a gravious mistake by Lodi yesterday for the goal scored by Argentina. However Di Maria was OFFSIDE by MILES actually which the referee ignored deliberately. It was actually the BREAKING –THE-OFFSIDE-TRAP by Richarlison to have scored that goal.His entire body was within the OFFSIDE line only maybe a fraction of his right leg outside that line. It is actually half or more than half the feet that has to remain out of the offside line for the OFFSIDE to be truled out.The VIDEO clearly showed that Richarlison was not OFFSIDE but he actually had broken that. Yey he was pulled up by the referee. THIS AGAIN GOES TO PROVE MANY A THINGS ABOUT MAKING MESSI AND ARGENTINA TO WIN AND ESPECIALLY FOR MESSI TO WIN HIS ONE TITLE BEFORE HIS SUN IS SET .

The second is the manner in which Richarlison broke for that goal, remaining atleast five yards away he pierced like the sunray to beat his marker by physical covering and puishing that one for a clean goal which was disallowed. Thirty seconds within, he again cut loose and took a rasper which was parrid away by the Argentine goalkeeper .That was the ONLY BRAZILIAN SPARK that we saw and after these two raids it was again that nothing was seen of Brazil.It was as if they had gone to shell.

INTRIGUING- THY NAME IS MESSI

Messi is a ball player and a FINISHER who will never miss anything within the five yard at the goal .Yesterday he got a pass from Di Maria within the strking circle.He weaved all through the Brazilain goal .When he was two hands distance within scoring he somehow brought himself to the ground where the Brazilian goalkeeper was saddled and Messi as good as allowed the goalkeeper to grip that one for a save .

Mohammed Ghori had taken out both the eye of Prithiviraj Chauhan and even without his eye Chauhan strucked the arrow on his neck to kill him. In the same fashion take out both the eye of Messi and feed him with the ball at that position.You will find Messi scoring from that position without any hitch or fail. Yesterday for the FIRST time in his life he failed. It was very evident that Brazil and Argentine had decided and sgreed to keep the score at 1-0 . If the scorewas 1-1 had Richarlison’s goal was allowed, Messi would have made it 2-1 and THIS IS THE PREDICTION I HAD GIVEN ON MY FACEBOOK before the match- one can see it. Agagin if the match had ended on an equal terms- the TIE BREAKER would have been clinched by Argentina. It was very evident that this title was to be awarded to Argentina and Messi as a parting GIFT for Messi by the Brazilians and company.

Football Played Yesterday-::

It was a very ordinary outing by Brazil.They looked without any idea, disjoint and bereft of any fighting qualities. They made many an inroads to the Argentine territory but tere at the box they were seen running out of idea. Those CUP-STYLE the ROOT of Brazilain football was totally missing and was NOT to be seen.

The set piece movement and the set pieces were absolutely missing from the Brazilian squad. At the defense there were some silly mistakes committed by the Brazilains . I did not see any Brazilain team playing such a disjajded and dispirited soccer at any time in my life against the Argentine. From 1982 when I first saw Brazil playing Argentina in which Brazil had beaten them by 3-1 to the last games of this years World Cup qualifiers where Brazil hit therm by 3-0 I have never seen such a LOUSY Brazilain side playing a game against Argentine. It was so paethetic to see them playing in that manner.

IF I’M WRONG-::

If I’m wrong in whatever I have written above and if this is the standard of football that Brazil plays then take my WORDS-::

NIETHER ARGENTINA OR BRAZIL WILL WIN THE WORLD CUP IN 2022 AT QUATAR…..

Brazil needs to bring in a OUT-OF-BOX Midfielder to create and hold the game at the centre. Brazil has a HISTORY of CREATING and MAKING those kind of midfielders in their history of the game.From the days of Vava- Didi to Gerson – Rivelino to  Zico-Socrates to DUNGA- ADRIANO to Ronaldinho- Kaka Brazil always had won the World Cup because of it’s midfielder – but wjhat I have seen of these midfielders playing for Brazil I’m APPALLED to see and say that BRAZIL will NEVER win the WORLD CUP again if these kind of STATIC and FREEZED midfielders play for them.THEY HAVE ONE VERY CREATIVE AND A SOLID MID FIELDER IN  “ GERSON ” a TWENTY years of age playing at Italy for a club .One year and HE IS THE MAN – I SAY. Bring him and put him behind Neymar and keep on switching Ricahrlison to RIGHT and LEFT with Neymar switching onto Left and RIGHT with Gerson holding the game in the midfield and you well will see a MAGIC of FLOWS and BEWITCHING BRAZILIAN MOVES for the entire 90 minutes of the game. ALSO BRAZIL WILL HAVE TO PLAY THE FIRST TIME PASS RATHER THA HANGING WITH THE BALL A BIT MUCH WHICH CLOSES THE GAP AT THE UPFRONT That is the area where they have to build on.ONE YEAR-IT IS ENOUGH OF TIME and if Mr Tite reads my lines and follows it up- HE WILL, ELSE NOT.

 WITH THE LOUSY FOOTBALL THAT WE SAW YESTERDAY FROM BRAZIL, BRAZIL WITH THIS KIND OF A GAME WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BEAT AND WIN THE 2022 WORLD CUP AT ALL.

CONGRATS “ MESSI ” – BUT WC-2022 IS NOT YOUR CUP OF TEA-:

I never been an Argentina football supporter at all.Their FOOTBALL achievement at the WORLD LEVEL is FULL-OF-CHEAT.

In CRICKET INDIA we have produced GOD OF EVERYTHING, THEN GOD OF ON-SIDE, THEN GOD OF WRIST, THEN GOD OF WALL, THEN GOD OF HOOKING THE EUROPEAN MODELS AND BEAUTIES, THEN GOD OF MARRYING THE BOLLYWOOD BEAUTIES, THEN GOD OF HOOKING AND MARRYING THE BROADCASTERS etc……

Likewise the Argentine football had and has PRODUCED the GOD’s  . It was the GOD of CHANGING THE FIXTURE to suit their purpose( the example of the Brazilain squad to pull them from swimming pool and forcing them to play against Peru in 1978 ) , the the GOD-OF-HAND, then the GOD- OF – HITTING THE BRAZILIANS on their NOSE, eye and what not, then the GOD OF DUPING THEIR EUROPEAN OPPONENT BY THE USE OF FIST,HAND,AND PALMS ( many such instances and many I can demonstare it by the pictures that I possess).

But I have always ADORED MESSI as a FOOTBALLER for his INDIVIDUAL-BRILLANCE-AND-UNIMAGINATIVE-SKILLS. HE IS REALLY A “ MAGICAL FOOTBALL-GOD ” which ROBS the EYEBALL and all the LIGHT of the EYE…..

Though it is a GIFT by Neymar, tite, Brazil and what not….. though many would LAUGH at me for the same…. But the TRUTH is a TRUTH which would be HARD to SWALLOW- GULP-AND- DIGEST , I would CONGRAJULATE the BEST in the WORLD to win his ONLY title at the very FAG end of his life COURTESY the RETURN GIFT by his F C Barcelona teammante and his BEST FRIEND in the international football arena…..

It also needed the " GIFTS "  from the Referees' to achieve that feat.

A WIN IS A WIN – ACHIEVED BY ANY MEAN-BY HOOK OR CROOK – AND THANKS MESSI TO AT LAST PUT ONE IN YOUR EMPTY POCKET…… IT NEEDED THE “ FRIEND-IN-DEED ” TO HELP YOU OUT….

No DOUBT AS THEY SAY- A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND IN DEED.

Lastky- Mr Tite ARE YOU LISTENNING. Your countrymen, be it Tostao, be it Branco, be it Dunga…… be it the President Mr Lula…… they have always listened me……

FOR THE " SAKE "  OF BRAZIL'S FOOTBALL - WILL YOU Mr TITE ..??..!!...

Note - Every pictures portrayed here are from ther National  " JOURNAL " Newspaper Of Brazil - which was send to me by my Brazilian Football Coach Of A Football Club Of Brazil -my FRIEND  

That is it……

That sums up it and that is all .....

Regards and THANKS

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .


 

 



 


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