Southern club may ask CBF to strip Corinthians of 2005 title | OneFootball

A counselor from Internacional, the team with the second-longest title drought in the Brazilian Championship (the last was won in 1979, 45 years ago), found a peculiar way to shorten the wait. Leonardo Aquino requested the Deliberative Council of the Porto Alegre team to claim from the CBF that the club be declared the 2005 Brazilian champion.

The request was motivated by statements from former referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho in the newly released documentary “Máfia do Apito,” where he details the behind-the-scenes of the match-fixing scandal by referees, which affected several competitions, especially the Brasileirão 20 years ago, in which the 11 games officiated by him were annulled, and at the end of the 38 rounds, Corinthians finished as champions and Internacional as runners-up.

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In the production, Edilson states: “I changed the Brazilian champion. Without the whistle mafia, the champion team would be Internacional, the champion would be Internacional”. In the interpretation of the Colorado counselor, this statement reveals that the Gaucho club was deliberately harmed by the scheme. However, what the statement actually suggests is that if the annulled matches were validated and all subsequent results repeated in the same way – something impossible to guarantee – Internacional would have ended as champions.

In another part of the request, which according to a statement from the president of the Deliberative Council Gustavo Juchem to the portal ge.globo will be analyzed and forwarded to the board, the counselor also mentions the unawarded penalty on Tinga in the direct confrontation between Corinthians and Internacional in the 40th round of the competition. In the play, referee Márcio Rezende de Freitas considered that the attacker simulated the foul, expelling him afterward.

For Aquino, the refereeing error in this specific match would be another reason to request the recognition of Internacional's Brazilian title to the CBF, although the incident was a mere factual error by the refereeing, unrelated to the annulled games and without any confession from the referee of having acted with the intention of harming the Gaucho club.

Finally, the counselor advocates for maintaining the results of the annulled matches, that is, preserving the games officiated by Edilson Pereira de Carvalho that were targeted by the Whistle Mafia, appealing to FIFA norms and the Brazilian Code of Sports Justice (CBJD), in addition to citing examples like Juventus' loss of the Italian title in 2005/06. However, he omits that Calciopoli involved a match-fixing scheme orchestrated by the clubs themselves, which led to the punishment of six teams by the local federation.

Something that Aquino's argument does not contemplate, however, are the refereeing errors that occurred throughout the Brasileirão, which influenced the results of several matches in the same way as the unawarded penalty on Tinga in the game against Alvinegro, including the clash between the teams in the first round, when a penalty on Jô was not awarded. With this in mind, Central do Timão gathered these errors, emphasizing those that benefited Internacional and harmed Corinthians. Check it out:

Refereeing errors in favor of Internacional in 2005:

1) Cruzeiro 3 x 2 Internacional (2nd round – Mineirão – 02/05)– Illegal goal by Rafael Sobis, clearly offside– Clear penalty not awarded to Cruzeiro

2) Internacional 1 x 0 Fortaleza (6th round – Beira-Rio – 29/05)– Penalty for Fortaleza not awarded at the end of the first half

3) Internacional 2 x 1 São Caetano (10th round – Beira-Rio – 03/07)– Legal goal by São Caetano annulled. The offside did not exist

4) Paysandu 1 x 2 Internacional (14th round – Mangueirão – 24/07)– Legal goal by Leandro, from Paysandu, annulled– Unjust expulsion of Robgol– Dubious penalty at 32 minutes of the second half in favor of Inter

5) Internacional 3 x 0 Figueirense (25th round – Beira Rio – 11/09)– Legal goal by Figueirense annulled when the game was still 1 × 0. The alleged offside did not exist

6) Internacional 3 x 1 Vasco (32nd round – Beira Rio – 16/10)– Legal goal by Alex Dias annulled at a decisive moment of the match– Fernandão handles the ball before passing to score the third goal

7) Internacional 3 x 2 Coritiba (Repetition of the 21st round – Beira-Rio – 28/10)– In a play by Ricardinho, the ball visibly goes out over the goal line, but the referee lets it continue and awards a penalty to Inter in the sequence of the play. Fernandão opens the scoring– No expulsion of Rentería at 30 of the second half after a fight with Rodrigo Batatinha

8) Internacional x Ponte Preta (37th round – Beira Rio – 06/11)– Defender Ediglê scores the second goal after an illegal charge on the Ponte defender

9) Internacional 1 x 0 Brasiliense (39th round – Beira Rio – 16/11)– Irregular goal by Inter at 46 minutes of the second half, due to a player clearly offside in the play

Refereeing errors against Corinthians in 2005:

1) Corinthians 2 x 2 Juventude (1st Round – Pacaembu – 24/04)– Legitimate goal by Jô, wrongly annulled for offside

2) Corinthians 0 x 2 São Caetano (18th round – Pacaembu – 06/08)– Dimba scores, offside, the first goal for São Caetano

3) Internacional 0 x 0 Corinthians (19th round – Beira-Rio – 10/08)– Penalty on Jô, not awarded

4) Corinthians 3 x 3 Botafogo (23rd round – Pacaembu – 28/08)– Non-existent foul on Ramón, who takes and scores the equalizing goal for Botafogo when the game was 2 x 1

5) Santos 4 x 2 Corinthians (16th Round – Vila Belmiro – Annulled game)– Penalty on Jô, not awarded by referee Edílson Pereira de Carvalho

6) Santos 2 x 3 Corinthians (Repetition of the 16th Round – Vila Belmiro – 13/10)– Penalty by Saulo on Nilmar not awarded– Saulo kicks, provokes, and insults Carlos Alberto, who does not retaliate the aggression. Only Carlos Alberto is expelled

7) Corinthians 2 x 3 São Paulo (24th round – Morumbi – Annulled game)– Intimidation by Edílson Pereira de Carvalho against the Argentinians Sebá and Tevez– Blatant foul by Mineiro on Jô, not punished by the referee

8) Corinthians 1 x 1 São Paulo (Repetition of the 24th round – Morumbi – 24/10)– Foul by Fabão on Carlos Alberto, in a play for a yellow card, which would result in red, whose play was reversed to punish the Corinthians player with a card

9) S. Caetano 1 x 0 Corinthians (39th Round – Anacleto Campanella – 17/10)– Clear penalty on Bobô, not awarded by the referee

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