Libertadores pelos cabelos

Ontem continuamos no pareo apos um dia em que os resultados dos outros clubes nos beneficiaram. Não tinha muitas duvidas que o time se classificaria, alguns resultados eram praticamente impossíveis de se realizar, mas no futebol nunca se sabe (vide o Botachoro campeão carioca 2010).
Mas o que mais me choca nisso tudo, foram os resultados da equipe Hexa-Campea brasileira contra times pequenos nas duas competições - Carioca / Libertadores. Estamos jogando como um bando, buracos enormes na defesa, e vendo alguns não marcando e jogando sem alma, enquanto outros estão correndo e tentando.
Sei que existem problemas no departamento de futebol, a conquista do Brasileiro so acobertou este fato, mas com os amadores encarregados deste departamento não da mais.
Apoiei a vinda da Patricia Amorim, pois como atleta deveria ter conhecimento do que não deveria ser repetido, porem estou chegando a conclusão que as mudanças não foram grandes assim. Legal trazer o Cielo, legal arranjar a Sede Social, mas acima de tudo o Flamengo e FUTEBOL. Essa e a vitrine do Flamengo no mundo, onde nossas cores sao reconhecidas e voce escuta o "Mengo" quando trajado do Manto Sagrado. Isso e que deve ser vendido, como também abrir mais as portas do clube para que torcedores comuns possam se tornar socios e aumentar a renda do clube, utilizar a Olympikus e distribuir a Grife Flamengo no exterior e moralizar a gestão (isso sendo o ponto principal).
Adoro o Adriano (meu xara), gosto da raca do Love, do Bruno, do Leo Moura - que tenta, e da meninada vinda das divisões inferiores e que merecem jogar.
Muita gente crucifica o Pacheco, fala mal do Mezenga, mas olha bem o esquema que eles devem obedecer (ou melhor o não esquema). A defesa perdeu muito com a saída do Fabio Luciano, depois do Aírton e nao temos ninguém por enquanto que pode ser seguro la atras, O David (jovem vai mudar), o Fabricio também), mas quem se lembra bem Mozer não era uma muralha no começo da carreira como também o Aldair e muitos outros.
O negocio e ter paciencia, nao mudar de tecnico a cada ma resultado e fazer um trabalho a longo prazo - PROFISSIONAL.

Fora BRAZ, fora amadorismo !!! Chega de guerrinha .. O negocio e FLAMENGO !!

Uma vez Flamengo..

Sempre fui um grande amador de futebol, que apesar da distancia da patria amada, sempre continuei a seguir o Brasil nas copas e durante um bom tempo o meu clube de coração - FLAMENGO.
Dizem ser uma paixão, outros uma religião, mas pouco importa o que for voce tem ele na pele no fundo do seu corpo e ve-lo brilhar so me da felicidade.

Somos actualmente a maior torcida do Brasil, e pelo mundo estamos espalhados vestindo o manto sagrado rubro-negro com muito orgulho. Mas não são todos que aprovam essa idolatria e que aceitam essa grandiosidade da nação Rubro-Negra. Ultimamente temos observado uma campanha de aviltamento de nossos jogadores (nossos idolos) que dia apos dia, são vitimas de publicações em diverso jornais noticias, de participações em festas Funk com a presença de traficantes (hmmm no Rio e anormal isso), presentes a traficantes ou ate agressões físicas a terceiros.
E chato ver que a inveja de uma equipe que esta dominando o futebol Carioca desde 2006 e que se coroou campeã Brasileira de 2009 (sexto titulo) apesar de jogar em um campeonato preparado para ser ganho pelas equipes de Sao Paulo, de maneira forte e ainda causa um estardalhaço na midia carioca agora nas mãos dos interesses dos amigos paulistas.

Não tenho nada contra os amigos Paulistas, mas corrijo:
No Rio nao tem RACHAO, nos jogamos uma pelada !!!
No Rio futebol e arte, e amor e nossa torcida nao fica cantando nos estadios como um bando de mongóis, ou correndo arquibancada a baixo na hora do gol.

Hoje o time e nosso Imperador Adriano, estão mostrando aos Amigos Arco-Iris, uma união e uma solidariedade que nao se via ha muito tempo. Hoje nos unimos com o clube de nosso idolo do passado para enfatizar mais ainda "Craque o Flamengo faz em Casa" que nos deu tantos bons jogadores e que agora nos presenteou com o Menino Vinícius Pacheco.

Morram de inveja, chorem o que quiserem... Sou campeão Mundial, Campeão da Libertadores, Hexa Campeão Brasileiro, 31 vezes estadual !!! SOU FLAMENGO ATE MORRER

Vacations, Vacations, Vacations

Well since I'm a little kid, vacations were synonimus of Beach - therefore waves, surf and sun. Well after leaving Brazil, most of the time Vacations were used to visit new places, meet new folks and so on.

I was not prepared for what I've got on my last vacations, not that I haven't enjoyed, but mostly because some of the things I was used to were dearly missing. Just got back of 10 days in one of the most beautifull places in Quebec (maybe in the world) in total immersion in the Nature. Seen Deers, Foxes, Racooons, Loonies and almost a black bear. You might say : "hey what's the matter??"...

During the whole time we were in the Mont Tremblant National Park, the weather was bad, we had 3 to 4 days of sun and the rest was rain... I felt like in England !!!

I do Camp with a nice Eureka Tent (I extremelly reccomend this maker) and it's almost a nuclear shelter, but it was humid and cold ... The kids got rowdy and of course it was not as fun as I've expected.

So like you can probably understand, even though the place was great, we could not do most of the hikes or biking we're expecting... Also we've got showered a couple of times during our quick hikes. Anyway the worst it was not having this foul weather during my vacations, but after we've decided to leave a day early, packing the things etc.. guess what?? The Sun decided to show up, it was warm and nice during the trip back home....

Now my question is : Am I right to be PO of my vacations???

Correio eletronico a IFFHS

Depois de ver no site do O Globo o ranking publicado pela IFHHS dos clubes de futebol no Mundo - e por conseqüência a classificação dos clubes brasileiros - curioso tentei verificar quais são os critério utilizados para confeccionar tal lista. No site da IFFHS www.iffhs.de achei uma parte da informação, mas achei necessário enviar um mail para ter mais informacoes.
No dia seguinte recebi o seguinte mail do Dr. Dr.Alfredo Pöge que transcrevo nesta pagina:

Mensagem inicial

I was wondering how can a club that doesn’t participate to any major International competition can be ranked. For those who participate on a National tournament (ratio of 3 to 1 +/- 75%) achieve a higher ranking while being classed on the same tournament on the lower places…

The example of this matter is the classement of Botafogo FR which was defeated on the semifinals of the Copa Brasil in 2008, and finished the Brasil Nacional in 7th place??

Thanks in Advance

Adriano Amaral

A resposta
Dear Sir ,

SC Corinthians São Paulo did play in 2008 in the Serie B (II. Division) and could not collected points and regional competition (Campeonato Paulista) will not take into consideration. Please read our rules of the determination in the same chapter. Present your club has place 1316 (with 18 points).

Regards
Dr.Alfredo Pöge

Minha resposta ,

Dear M. Poge,

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately my club is not Corinthians S.C. and it's now classed in the 144 position CR Flamengo, which has more wins and draws in the National Championship, finished in the 5th position, was on the Libertadores Cup and eliminated on the 16th round (which cup Botafogo did not participate), and could not participate of the Brazil Cup since the CBF does not allow the clubs who are participating on the Libertadores to play in this Cup. So following the rules all the points acquired by Flamengo would be higher that those of Botafogo, since the tournaments played were higher on your scale:

Copa Libertadores: 14 - 7 - 0 points for win - draw - defeat Copa
Sudamericana: 12 - 6 - 0 points for win - draw - defeat

In Brazil, teams who participated in the Copa Libertadores are excluded by the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol from playing in the Copa do Brasil. As a result of these changes, the old 2:1 ratio of national championship to national cup competition no longer corresponds with the reality. Thus, beginning with the 2006 season respectively 2006/07 season, a ratio of 3:1 will be used for national championship (75%) and national cup competition (25%). Therefore, teams from the strongest leagues (Group 4) will receive 12 points each for the last four rounds, those from the second-strongest leagues 8, those from the third-strongest leagues 5, and those from the weakest leagues (Group 1) 2.5 points. All other details not will be changed.

Regards
Adriano Amaral.


Herr Poge,


Dear Sir ,

These facts are known us - but the world (and also not IFFHS) can fix rules after some few Brazilian clubs or after a wrong decision of the CBF. All Brazilian clubs should have the right to take part in the Brazilian Cup and the right have not take part in regional competitions (as Campeonato Carioca, Campeonato Paulista etc.). The world of the football has developed and the Brazlian clubs must fight for this right.

Sorry, but you have a wrong idea.

Regards
Dr.Alfredo Pöge

de novo o chato,

Adriano Amaral schrieb:

Herr Poge,

Thank you kindly for your answer, following your explanation I can see that the context used to compute the points is more or less the one following the European situation, in which a few privilege clubs take part of a A series or B series championships. Since the number of clubs in certain European countries is lesser than the 1st and 2nd division clubs in the State of Rio de Janeiro is a tad bit preposterous your affirmation to fight for its right to not play the regional tournaments. If we compare the Paulista side, well you can take both French and Belgian cup together. Nerveless, maybe I have the wrong idea, but as long as Brazil is a cellar of talents for your European clubs and National teams and as long those players are growing from clubs like Sao Cristovao (Reinaldo), Flamengo (Zico, Junior, Jorginho, Julio Cesar), Vasco (Juninho -Lyon), in my humble opinion who is not develloping as fast as us on the quality and quantity of players, are the European Countries. I Agree that football is growing and changing since it's early years, but I think you vision of devellopment is not realistic of a country that can hold your continent several times.

Glad to see my idea differs from yours, and to see how your statistics are good only using the european point of view. By the way, Herr Poge, we fight for the the right everytime any of those small clubs enter the pitch of a regional tournament, because they know they're playing against the best, with no or little foreigners, and it's a showcase for those young guns that will probably immigrate to europe, become Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Croate and will defend an European country so much in need of good players with heart and skill.

Have a wonderful day, and again thank you for the enlightenment on your organization.


Adriano Amaral


Herr Poge,

Dear Sir ,

We received always again information that we would be the only federation which is total neutral and not preferred Europe. Also we have monthly millions PIs from 180 countries and in the last months the most from Brazil !! You represent with your idea a very little minority with not suitable facts. Also you should take into consideration our four groups of performance!

Regards
Dr.Alfredo Pöge


de novo...

Adriano Amaral schrieb:
Herr Pöge,

Again thank you for your answer, like mentioned before we have a different point of view basically because we've been exposed to different realities. Again the reality you face in Europe that is not Brazil's one, furthermore you're certainly right to assess my condition as being part of a "minority without suitable facts", and contrary to your belief I've took in consideration all your groups of performance and my questioning was based on your scales. Since you were not able to
answer a simple question that could explain how did you achieve the total tally of points for the specific club - considering the matches, final standings etc... - makes me think (and this is probably shared by several persons) you yourself is not a very aware of the empirical calculus used to achieve the ranking. Therefore, this is also my humble opinion and understanding, most
clubs outside Europe will be penalized since the number of competitions both on a National and Continental level are lesser than in Europe. Anyway we still have in direct confrontation the true
portrait, since South American Clubs have defeated 25 X 21 (including Intercontinental Cups and World Club Cups) their European counterparts.


Anyway, I truly appreciate your time and the explanations of how you achieve your ranking.

Have a wonderful day.

Adriano Amaral


Resposta



Dear Sir ,

Still a last fact - in South America can each top club take part on 2 international competitions (Copa Libertadores & Copa Sudamericana), but in Europe not !! And we have 200 countries in the world and extreme many different details in the national competitions - following we must have a clear line worldwide obliging. So simple - as you think - it is not.

Regards
Dr.Alfredo Pöge


E a minha ultima resposta

Herr Pöge,

I apologize but you seem to be somewhat confused. If I understand correctly and I can only say this on the Brazil side, the top 4 clubs are classified to the Libertadores and from the 5th to the 12th they'll play the Sudamericana. Maybe in Paraguay, or some other smaller country they use this possibility but it's not the case in Brazil (and I've just checked nor Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela and Peru). Please you can google this kind of information or contact the Conmebol to more clarification. Also it seems that those who participate on both competition (a minority of countries) are accepted by the Conmebol - therefore you are ruling on an exception instead of the majority. Might be a question of development to be arise to the Conmebol....

Regards

Adriano Amaral


Da pra ver que estão completamente fora da realidade mundial, tanto quanto o que é valido como torneio ou o que não é. Para eles só vale nacional, continental ou mundial, pois só são os tipos de torneios existentes na maioria dos paises Europeus (por falta de clubes). Talvez tenham razão, mas no caso do Brasil seria uma grande perda se não existisse mais os campeonatos regionais...

Daf Legacy

Well another monster from the past, this one I've seen very close on the Versaille Prologue from the Dakar 88. What a nice truck !! A little bit of history : Daf had entered on the past Dakar, some nice trucks and some real weird as well, with his driver Jan de Rooy. De Rooy owned a Transport Company and was a motocross and Rallycross drives. His palmares is pretty impressive:
Rallycross-Palmares
Dutch International Rallycross Champion 1970, 1971 (1970 and 1971 also National Champion), 1972, 1973 and 1979
Dutch National Rallycross Cup winner for riders with international license in 1980
1973: 4th general Embassy Rallycross EK with 55 DAF Coupe (with Ford BDA engine)
1974: 5th general Embassy Rallycross EK with 55 DAF Coupe and DAF 66m (each with Ford BDA engine)
1979: 2nd general FIA Rallycross EK (Touring Cars) with Ford Escort RS1800
1982: 3rd overall Rallycross FIA European Championship (Division 2) with Audi Quattro

We can see a patern over here already, so the jump to Rally Raid was a matter of time. So in partership with DAF he entered his first Dakar. Overall 67th since in 82 cars and trucks were racing on the same category. From there on he climbed on the standings second place in 82 with the DAF F3300 4x4 "The Bull", winning in 86 on the trucks and finishing 11th overall with the DAF 3600 Turbo Twin II. Not satisfied to his last run, DAF and De Rooy came up with the Mega Monster... the DAF 95 X1 and X2. A sweet looking truck, following the concept of 2 engines, already used on the "Bi-cephalle" 84, on the Turbo Twin series but with way more power we could imagine. The X1 had 2 11.6 litter engines with 3 turbos on each for a total of 1200 Hp and way over 200 Km/h top speed. I remember watching the Dakar in 88 during the Ternere special and watching that truck catch the Peugeot and pass it. I remember some other drivers saying, if this thing starts before you you cannot pass it !!! Sadly De Rooy left the race after the crash of the X2 and the death of his navigator, but everyone knows he would win that Dakar hands down. Here you have a video that shows this beauty and his amazing pass on the sands of the Ternere .

Well a Bus can go fast as well... well sorta...

Another thing from the past... While a kid growing in Brasil, we use to travel mostly by bus. Well planes were expensive and the railways were being phased out - old "Pra frente Brasil" politics. Anyway, I had my first Airplane trip on a Cruzeiro do Sul Caravelle (nice plane - PP-PDX latter crashed), from Rio to Belo Horizonte and got bac by train - a real sweet trip !!! But like I've said, most of the time we drove in dad's VW bug, or we took the bus. The best company to travel, nice GM buses and latter on Scania, was Viacao Cometa. We took the great PD 4104 Morubixaba (middle photo), nice 2 stroker GM bus, A/C, comfortable seats and a sound from heaven. Latter on Cometa used Scania buses with Ciferal bodies called the Papo Amarelo, Jumbo and Turbo Jumbo (loved to ride on the Turbo Jumbo). But the best of thoses came later when the Dinossauro series came (far right photo- what a beauty). What a great bus. Fast, turbo, air suspension, nice looking. All the other series were made by Cometa's CMA and you have the Flecha Azul (blue Arrow) series ... Well I've just got vent that the Dinossauros are going out of the lines and despite the fact they're still great buses, Cometa new owners are moving to boring Mercedes bus with Marcopolo bodies. Well there is a project for the Dinossauro V series (far letf photo) and I cannot agree more that represents the soul of the Cometa heritage. Hope I'll see one of those on the road

Old Iron and pearls from the past

Don't know why but, I've got on some kind of Nostalgia from things of my childhood and previous countries. Most of them were sparkled by a game at the web edition of O Globo - a Brazilian Newspapper from my city of Rio de Janeiro. They came out with of some old pics from parts of the city, and you have to guess where they shoot it. Anyway on this same thought some bloggers of the papper, wrote about new and old cars. Some came out of the attic and some childhood memories arose. Cars like the VW SP1-2, Ford Corcel,Chevrollet Opala, DKW (all tipical brazilian ) or the Brasinca, Puma, Santa Matilde - more or less hand made cars. Anyway found some pics on flickr and added to the blog. Enjoy it !

This video (in Portuguese) that compares the Brasinca Uirapuru 4200GT with the Jensen Interceptor. Detail : Uirapuru was made before the Jensen... The other is a Kharman-Ghia 993 RS... Yup  911 GT3 engine on it !