São Paulo’s Copinha run inspired by legends, Cotia shapes the future | OneFootball

It was another one of those performances that dazzled Tricolor fans and brought a lot of hope to São Paulo supporters. The 4-1 victory of São Paulo over Ibrachina on Thursday night (22) once again secured the team a spot in the Copinha final, in pursuit of their sixth championship title.

Allan Barcellos, who renewed his contract with the club for another year, has the squad in his hands and truly proves to be special. He loses his top talents every time the senior team calls them up, and even during the Copinha, he had to deal with absences due to Crespo’s requests for the professional squad. Yet, Tricolor never loses its style of play.

In the rout, it was the top scorer Paulinho who opened the scoring, with a beautiful goal that many fans recalled as reminiscent of Luis Fabiano on social media. Indeed, it was very reminiscent of the Fabulous One in his greatest moments.

The second goal was worthy of a Danilo corner kick for Fabão to rise high and score, just like in the good old days of 2005. This time, number 10 Pedro Ferreira delivered a perfect ball to Isac’s head, who found the net.

For the third goal, the big defender Isac looked like Alex Silva, the two-time Brazilian champion center-back for Tricolor in 2006 and 2007. The defender surged from the back, reached the penalty area, and took a shot from distance. The ball deflected off a rival and fell to Gustavo Santana, who, like Aloisio Chulapa, battled with the defenders and slotted home another.

And perhaps the most beautiful and most iconic moment was saved for last. On the birthday of the greatest idol in the club’s history, Rogério Ceni, the excellent right-back Igor Felisberto took a free kick with mastery, unstoppable, to seal São Paulo’s 4-1 victory.

“We had been practicing during our preparations. For sure (it was a gift for Ceni). He’s a legendary goalkeeper, very famous for his goals,” said Felisberto about the stunning free-kick goal in an interview with Cazé TV. He was also named the best player of the semifinal.

In every area, and also on the bench, São Paulo showed they have players of great quality. Some of them will soon be promoted to the professional squad to join Crespo’s group at the Barra Funda training center. Midfielder Pedro Ferreira, given the shortage in his position at Tricolor, is expected to be one of them.

If the situation is still tense at the club, Cotia is always a certainty. A certainty of revealing great players who end up saving Tricolor, either on the field or through multi-million dollar sales. The boys drew inspiration from the past to build a great and new future for São Paulo.

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