domingo, 16 de setembro de 2007

Grêmio Sweeps Internacional in year series.

Grêmio gets the bragging rights with the second win in the Brazilian
footbal championship. Altough neither teams are much of challenge to
São Paulo's title drive, it is safe to say the Grêmio is having a waaaay
better season than his hatred rivals.
Brilliantly lucky last season the red shirted "colorado" Internacional
is back to his normal losing self.
Meanwhile the glorious "tricolor" is its way back to its greatness.
In a season that Grêmio won the state championship, was runner-up in
Libertadores da América and it is very much alive in the National
Champion. You probablily can say that the best award of the year is having
beated his city rivals back to back in the only two matches of this years.
Since Inter dismal playing never carried itself to playoff stages in the
others competitions. Btw, the Brasileirão is a round-robin competition.
If you things this a partial report, you're right. I am Gremista and I am LMAO.
Now, seriously, this all part of the GRe-Nal mystical experience of being a
brazilian football fan in the most hatred, traditional and best rivalry.
Very few compares to it. Once inquiried about how bad was being involved in
the Buenon Aires River-Boca(one of the greatest ones, for sure), Cesar Luiz Menotti suposedly said :
"- It could be worse. It could be GRE-NAL."
In american professional sports thr is nothing comparable, since team in
the same town don´t competes each other in the same leagues. So it you can
go to intercity or interstate rivalries. Wich it is not the same thing.
Even Boston - New York.
Maybe some college rivalrys, due to some historic value.
Maybe Mississipi State-Ole Miss.
But all the good ones are in football.
The Glasgow Celtic Rangers come to mind.
River Plate and Boca Juniors.
Palmeiras and Corinthians.
Flamengo and Vasco.
Greece, now we are talking bussiness.
Panathinaikos versus Olympyakos.
Besides that, since will be teams not for the same town. I am sorry.
No Civil wars. As much Barcelona versus Real Madrid is great.
They are indeed teams form different nations jailed in the same country.
Ther is no way Catalan kid grow to be a merengue supporter.
Here in south brazil families are friendly separated forever.
Gre-Nal is the best.
And Grêmio is this winner king.

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