crisis explodes at Corinthians before the Copa do Brasil

Controversy with Cuca and the fall of Fernando Lazaro were the necessary sparks for the crisis in Corinthians explode days before one of the main decisions of the club in 2023. Brazil’s Cup is one of the great priorities of alvinegro this season, but the dream of reaching a final may be postponed this year. Timão lost the first leg to the rowingby 2 to 0, and will need a victory by more than three goals to advance in the tournament.

This Wednesday, the 26th, at 9:30 pm (Brasília time), the Neo Química Arena will be the stage for perhaps the most important match for Corinthians in 2023. It could define an important resumption in the alvinegro in the season or put an even hotter flame in a crisis that has already exploded behind the scenes and in the stands. But she is only due because of a sequence of mistakes made at the beginning of the year.

For fans who saw Corinthians’ calendar for the Copa do Brasil, they certainly thought that the match against Remo would not be a problem, but that changed last week. To understand it, you have to go back to March 12th, when Timão accumulated a disgraceful elimination for the Ituanoat Neo Química Arena, in the quarterfinals of Paulistão.

From there, the direction of the alvinegro club had the chance to change the course of the season. With the drop in the state, Timão would have 24 days until the debut in Libertadores. A change in the technical command, at the time, was already considered, but the president Duílio Monteiro Alves opted for the sequence of Lázaro. The team came back and won 3-0 Liverpool-URUthe weakest rival of their group in the Libertadores.

A week later, the team faced Remo away from home. The pressure started from this night on. The former coach opted to choose a mixed team, and the answer was a 2-0 defeat with much criticism on social networks. It was at this moment that the crisis at Timão began to erupt and it was not eased even with the victory over cruisein the team’s debut in the Brasileirão.

Despite the 2-1 at Neo Química Arena, the performance was below expectations and a positive result against Argentine Juniors last Wednesday, the 19th, was fundamental. However, in a game without any kind of Corinthian identity, the team was defeated by 1-0 at home and the situation became unsustainable for Fernando Lázaro.

A change in technical command was inevitable. The following day, on Thursday the 20th, Corinthians tried to announce a substitute and the name chosen was Cuca. The signing did not please most of the fans and the crisis broke out for good at the alvinegro club. The rejection was great due to the past of the technician, who worked in the palm trees and was convicted of sexual violence in 1987 in Switzerland, when he was still a player for Guild.

The last factor is predominant for most fans and for several club employees. Last Sunday, April 23, after his debut as coach of Corinthians, which resulted in a 3-1 defeat against Goiasthe cast of women’s football released an official note and spoke out against hiring Cuca.

And it is with this scenario that Corinthians will go to the field this Wednesday, the 26th, against Remo. The team will need to beat rivals by three goals apart, but, in addition, they will have to overcome great pressure against their own coach, who will have his first contact with the Corinthians fans since his arrival at the Parque São Jorge club.

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