Santo derby: ‘banana’ for rivals, dressing room wild, 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 that qualification is of Felipão making a “banana” gesture at 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 also remembered, isn’t it? It’s remembered, but I shouldn’t have done that. Corinthians fans didn’t deserve it. But it was the moment, it was the match – says Felipão, to NOSSO PALESTRA.

Catharsis

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

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

AI-generated 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 the early hours of Wednesday morning. Palmeiras fans who had been at the stadium went 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 match, but I was at that match with my uncle Silvio. We came down from the game, had a beer at a little stand next to Morumbi, and Silvio said: “let’s have one last drink at the station on Sumaré,” which was that Texaco station, now an Ipiranga station. So we went there and got there a little after two in the morning. There was a crowd, the station packed with people drinking beer, and they would put a beer can on each side as if it were a goal, and someone would come take the penalty, shoot, someone would dive and save it 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 had already been there for over an hour, three-thirty in the morning, four in the morning, a car pulls up, a huge Blazer. When I look, the entire station runs after that car. What’s going on? When I look, it’s Sônia, Marcos’s wife, driving, and Marcos is leaning half his body out of the car and people are reaching out to touch him like this. Marcos with half his body out of the car and the Palmeiras fans touching him as if they were venerating a saint – PVC concludes.

Saint 8

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