Santo derby: ‘banana’ at rivals, dressing room buzzing, Marcos aloft | OneFootball

The celebration for the spot in the 2000 Copa Libertadores final began right after Marcos saved the penalty taken by Marcelinho Carioca. The first image was precisely of Felipão, running toward the locker room.

Outburst

One of the images from the qualification is Felipão making a “banana” gesture at the rival fans in the Morumbi stands. More than two decades later, the former Palmeiras coach admits he should not have done it, but explains how special the moment was.

– That’s something people still remember too, right? It’s remembered, but I shouldn’t have done that. Corinthians fans didn’t deserve it. But it was the moment, it was the game – says Felipão, to NOSSO PALESTRA.

Catharsis

For those who experienced that moment up close, it was the biggest celebration ever seen inside a locker room. The most important Derby in history ended with a Palmeiras victory and, consequently, with a second straight qualification against their rival.

– I think it was the biggest locker-room celebration I’ve ever seen, in spontaneity, intensity, and sheer explosion. I don’t remember a locker room with such spontaneous happiness. It was catharsis – recalls Rubens Sampaio, former Palmeiras doctor, to NP.

AI image of PVC and Marcos in an unusual meeting after the 2000 semifinal

Where’s Marcos? Ask over at the gas station…

The ecstasy from the field and locker room spilled into the streets of São Paulo and took over Wednesday night. Palmeiras fans who were at the stadium headed to the area around Palestra Italia to celebrate the qualification when, suddenly, the Saint appeared in the flesh at a gas station near the stadium.

– The story of Marcelinho’s penalty is incredible. When I left, I wasn’t working that game, but I was at that game with my uncle Silvio. We came down from the match, had a beer at a little stand next to Morumbi, and Silvio said: “let’s have one last drink at the Sumaré gas station,” which was that Texaco station, now an Ipiranga. So we went there and got there a little after two in the morning. There was a crowd, the station was packed with people drinking beer, and they would place a beer can on each side as if it were a goal, then someone would come to take the penalty, kick it, someone would dive and save the penalty in the right corner, and the station would explode – recalls Paulo Vinícius Coelho, before continuing:

– And, out of nowhere, it was four in the morning, we’d already been there for over an hour, three-thirty, four in the morning, and a car pulls up, a huge Blazer. When I look, the entire gas station runs after that car. What’s happening? When I look, it’s Sônia, Marcos’s wife, driving, and Marcos is half hanging out of the car while people are reaching out to touch him. Marcos with half his body outside the car and the Palmeiras fans touching him as if they were beholding a saint – PVC concludes.

Saint 8

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