Still on the subject of the World Cup, corruption, management models, businesspeople, and executives.

Whenever Brazil fails in a World Cup competition, the biggest discussion revolves around who is to blame, a kind of witch hunt. After all, someone has to be held responsible and blamed for our frustration. Historically, it has been this way.

For my part, I see football as entertainment, as fun that takes me back to my childhood. I still play football, watch games on television, in stadiums, and follow sports programs where everyone has an explanation and a solution.

Experts, journalists, and coaches point fingers, speculate on who will and will not be at the next World Cup. Football agents attack the national team. Some because they are fans, others out of emotion or self-interest.

While acknowledging the importance of what has already been said as an explanation for the defeat – cases of corruption, excessive spending on the event, political interests, among others – I see the management model as the main reason.

The globalization of the economy has turned football into a marketplace for deals. This led to the creation of the Pelé Law, which weakened youth development clubs and gave immense power to football agents.

Young players are trained with the ideal profile to be sold to European football. Their development and maturity matter little; what matters is their physique and some skill.

Most clubs have stopped preparing their athletes by focusing on technical development. These athletes have become products displayed on a grocery store shelf like merchandise. A call-up to the Brazilian national team is a sure way to generate sales and profit for the agent.

It's clear that the organization of Brazilian football has evolved and improved. Today we have a calendar with well-known competitions, unlike in the recent past.

However – besides the Pelé Law that I mentioned – the great evil, the den of corruption that hinders our football, is also in the state federations and the CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation).

In these entities, when they are not in the hands of businessmen, they are in the hands of their partners, the directors, who are the ones who run the competitions, the business, and the advertising contracts. These are mostly wealthy entities, especially in the South and Southeast, and the Confederation itself is even wealthier.

Meanwhile, the clubs – in most cases historically managed solely by emotion, with bad management never being punished – are now even more vulnerable in their ability to compete with the agents.

This is our greatest defeat, our biggest weakness, which causes a decline in the quality of Brazilian athletes. Commercialism is the prevailing evil that profits football managers, with exceptions, of course.

Of course, there are other issues to be discussed and raised in this text, some of which require further exploration. But that would make it quite lengthy.

As I've said, losing teaches you how to win. Crises create opportunities that need to be seized.

And life goes on, as João Saldanha used to say.

What I disagree with is the inferiority complex and the opportunistic vultures, like the former athlete Ronaldo. He posted a photo on Instagram comparing Brazil's crushing defeat to the number of Nobel Prizes received by Germany: "Germany 102 x 0 Brazil. And you think 7 x 1 was a crushing defeat?"