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Our Father, R$ 87 for Conmebol and suspense at gate 23: the backstage of the Corinthians victory on cheerless day

Danilo Vieira Andrade

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Corinthians cast and group of four fans sing
the National Anthem before the match with the Millionarios
  EFE

End of game in Pacaembu, with victory of the Corinthians by 2 to 0 on the Millonarios-COL, this Wednesday, by Liberators, and the fans who attended the vicinity of the stadium pray the prayer "Our Father", followed by a round of applause.

It is the end of a day that will be recorded as one of the saddest in the history of the Brazilian club and also one of the most curious.

Unlike 36,000 fans, only four had the opportunity to follow the second alvinegro game through the group stage of the South American tournament. Without the traditional movement that precedes the matches, Pacaembu ended up accompanying yesterday to scenes rarely seen in days of play, such as people running around the stadium, the absence of walkers and subway stations to flies in the minutes preceding the meeting.

"That was the fastest dispersion we ever did in a game," joked a military police officer.

The cavalry members of the organ were responsible for the greatest distraction in the early hours of the pre-game, bypassing the surroundings of the stage several times and softening with their horses a silence only ignored in the press access. Conmebol delayed the delivery of the accreditation list to the members of the organization and, to protest the media, delayed the entry of professionals in Pacaembu in more than an hour.

After the problem had been solved, a series of speculations began about the arrival gate of the six fans who achieved an injunction during Wednesday to accompany the match.

They were not, however, in charge of receiving the bus that carried the Corinthians delegation to the stadium. Two other fanatics ended up being responsible for saluting the athletes on their landing. Soon after, at last, arrived at gate 23 the car with four fans, and no more six – two of them gave up before – who would try to enter the stadium.

Still frightened by the repercussion of the initiative, they headed for the interior of Pacaembu uncertain about the sequence of the plan and were taken a few minutes later to a room located next to the entrance gate, accompanied by the legal director Alvinegro, Luiz Alberto Bussab, and the club's lawyer, Luiz Felipe Santoro. They followed there for more than 20 minutes, generating a climate of suspense interrupted each exit sketch of the room.

At the end of the mystery, lawyer Armando Teixeira, responsible for the action and speaking at the stadium, confirmed what everyone expected: "let's go in".

It was exclusive to the four lucky Corinthians players' greetings before the game began. The shouts to support the team were their responsibility and also the club's president, Mario Gobbi and his entourage, sitting just above the court action quartet in the Municipal Stadium numbered.

The fans, Gobbi and other members of the Corinthian board made a lot of noise at the time of Guerrero's goal, the first of the 2 to 0 on the Millonarios-COL. Colombians outside the camp couldn't celebrate a goal and couldn't. Still in the first half five Colombian journalists were reprimanded by Pacaembu officials by celebrating a defense of the visiting goalkeeper.

Alongside the run for the Corinthian fans, a group of Colombians were getting ready to leave Charles Miller Square, disappointed by the lack of permission to accompany the Millonarios-COL after more than 10 days and up to a month in the case of some South American travel members. To the report of ESPN.com.brThey asked for a financial contribution.

Não foram eles nem tampouco os cerca de 100 torcedores que se reuniram atrás de uma das duas barreiras montadas pela polícia militar para apoiar o Corinthians à distância os responsáveis por contribuir para a renda de R$ 870, que, de acordo com o que rege o regulamento da competição, teve 10% de seu total ou R$ 87 direcionado à Conmebol.

Mas, sim, o quarteto da torcida que ganhou um aceno do atacante Alexandre Pato após o segundo gol alvinegro que praticamente sacramentou a vitória numa noite em que a Fiel orou por dias melhores.


Source: ESP N