When the 71 woman became part of the furniture

Marinho Peres was one of those good friends that death took me in a constant and miserable scrub of emptying my life until the moment waiting for me arrives as well. And it was Marine who for the first time told me about João Avelino Gomes. Or rather, from 71. I have nothing against people who adopt to have numbers instead of names, not even anagrams, after all Christ was simply xpto and the universe was not shaken by it. For your side I already have everything in favor of all those who drive me to write a chronicle. The Marine said: «71 was a short wick guy. Always arranged confusion. I often had to be me to separate it. Well, the folkloric João came from Andradas, Poço das Caldas, Minas Gerais, where he was born in 1929. He first came to Orio de Janeiro, still a young man, then he was jumping from one place to another as if he were a grasshopper and leaving marks here and there as another grasshopper. He studied at Senai (National Industrial Learning Service) and, as it happens to all of us when we stop the skeleton to an organization whatever it was, gave him a number. Needless to say that this number was 71. Needless, but even deleted said I said. If you are waiting for you to tell you an passionate story about an inimitable player, they will have to wait a lot, and they can even sleep a nap. The so -and -so had never had a way of feet and passed by a weak career. To compensate was clever and dedicated himself to knowing Tactics and Philosophy of Balneario, having passed through the bank of no less than twenty clubs, so Alto, America de São Paulo (where he was eight times in several years) to Nautical, Atletico Mineiro Aouberaba and Marilia, Corinthians Aotaquaritinga and Palmeiras Aocerro Portoño, where he already put the end of the way. Very confusing neurons through Alzheimer’s crap.

It may be that 71 has not become known for the trophies won, after all it only won one seriously, the Paulista champion with America, but many still remember their diatribes. On March 10, 1974, João Avelino performed with his Ceub (Brasilia University Sports Center) against Corinthians for the inauguration game of the Mané Garrincha Stadium. To bad luck with him, there was a track reporter who stuck to the CEUB bench and killed his head from minute to minute with stupid questions. The dialogue was something like this: « Your John, how are you seeing the game? » And 71, patient: « With my eyes, my son, with my eyes! » And the boring: « Your John, what are you thinking of the lawn? » And 71, even more patient, tearing down a little grass and taking her to his mouth: « Verdinho, soft and sour, my son! » Then, already laying smoke from his ears, he vented on his advanced center with a scream that left the deaf reporter: « It will head like this at the house of mother Joana !!! ». And, sitting again, he replied more serene to the bastard: « If the animal keeps kicking like this will kill the goalkeeper but anger. » The people liked him and the players too, despite his frequent angels and the screams that came out as surprisingly as Joaquim Soares da Cunha, Jorge Amado, Quincas Berro d’Agua, when they gave him a glass of water instead of a cachaça. It was also superstitious to light candles in the corridors and always walk with an image of Our Lady of Aparecida under her arm. At the time of the staff, he turned to saint his back to the wall. « She doesn’t want to see naked man, no, » he justified. With the goalkeeper was firm: absolutely prohibited from eating chicken in the days before games. He was convinced that he understood a lot of anatomy. Then he put the players climbing countertops with his right nostril to strengthen his left lung and then with the left nostril to strengthen his right lung. I think no one got much healthier because of that. Little by little and was getting shuffled. The man given to confusion came to think that the woman was part of the furniture. Died without knowing what a ball was …