The First Round of the Brasileiro! CBF Couldn’t Care Less

Following CBF’s great marketing strategies to make the campeonato brasileiro more attractive to fans and media, the league started almost unnoticed Saturday night. CBF is so worried about the 2014 World Cup that it constantly forgets the clubs.Current champs São Paulo not only started its 2007 campaign in the worst time possible, but also played with empty stadium as a punishment for the invasion of a fan in the last game of 2006 against Paraná. Great marketing CBF!

São Paulo ignored that and the crisis after the early elimination in the Copa Libertadores and won 2-0 against a weakened Goiás. Jorge Wágner, who went to the pitch as an imposition of São Paulo’s president to coach Muricy Ramalho, scored the first goal of the tournament in a rebound from out of the box. Rogério Ceni scored the second still in the first-half from the spot. It was his 71st goal from his career. For Goiás, the message is clear: With this team they may ended up in the second division.

Figueirense and Atlético-PR also ignored CBF’s little worries with Brazilian clubs and the national tournaments and played an impressive game in Florianópolis that ended with 6-3 victory to the visitors.

Finally, at the Maracanã, Cruzeiro seemed to be ready to forget the failure in the state league by getting a 2-0 lead against Fluminense in the first-half. Dorival Júnior was ahead of Cruzeiro for the first time since he left São Caetano, and he committed the same mistakes. Cruzeiro returned to the second-half with a defensive attitude, and as expected the God’s of football don’t like that. Despite its fans irritation, booing the team, Fluminense tied at the end of the match through Cícero.

This Sunday much more is expected. CBF is the only that doesn’t seem to expect anything from Brazilian clubs.

Category: CBF, Clubs, Tournaments

Tags: Atletico-PR, Campeonato Brasileiro, CBF, Clubs, Cruzeiro, Figueirense, Fluminense, Goias, São Paulo, Tournaments

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