In eight seconds of individual brilliance that broke the deadlock seven minutes into the second half of Fluminense’s game with Nova Iguacu, everything good and everything bad about the first few months of the year in Brazilian football was perfectly summed up.
In Brazil, February, March and April are taken up by state championships, which are a product of a time when travel was too arduous to permit a national Brazilian league. Whereas once such local competitions were the be-all and end-all, now, with the game’s financial polarisation and the national league taking precedence, they pit a few local giants from each state against relative minnows.
It’s like the first few months of the English season being taken up by regional leagues that would see Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal play Barnet, Leyton Orient and Dulwich Hamlet before the Premier League gets underway. The result is scores of awful games as smaller clubs desperately defend draws.
Yet the state championships do present an opportunity. In them, big clubs’ young players can get minutes on the pitch against manageable opponents. Fluminense, one of those big clubs, are currently using that opportunity in the Rio de Janeiro state competition. And there is one young man who is the name on everybody’s lips: Kayky da Silva Chagas.
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