“O Baby is carrying São Paulo”: Leader hits back at ticket critics | OneFootball

Tricolor fans have been complaining about the club's ticket sales (Photo: Reproduction/Instagram)

MARCIO MONTEIRO

@avantmtricolor

As if Julio Casares' poor management at São Paulo wasn't enough, part of the fanbase has also clashed over a new controversy: the early distribution of tickets to the organized fan group.

Even before the sales opened first to the Tricolor members, the Independent Fans, the club's main organized group, had already announced the sale of a combo that includes two tickets, for the sought-after match against LDU in the Libertadores, as well as the previous duel at Morumbi, on Sunday (14), when São Paulo hosts Botafogo for the Brasileirão.

To avoid the practice of tied sales, which is illegal in Brazil, the Fans assure that "Buy the keychain of game 1, get game 2", in a kind of promotion for the São Paulo fan who wants to secure the tickets.

The action caused a lot of outrage and complaints from São Paulo fans, including in posts made by the organized group and by Henrique Gomes, aka Baby, one of the leaders of the organization.

And on the morning of this Friday (12), Baby decided to speak out in a real outburst on his social networks, rebutting the criticisms suffered by the Independent. Check out the full text below:

"Where is Baby?!

Baby is in the stands of every continent, if only more São Paulo fans were there too. And without the argument that "organized fans don't work, don't study" because when we see 3,000 foreigners in Brazil, every time, we realize how only the Independent, other TOs and a few others follow SPFC.

Baby has been holding up SPFC, for years, in the most difficult moments. 2017 when awareness made the fans fill the stadium in crisis and save São Paulo. Baby created Morumbi Raiz during the pandemic. Baby made the insane parties of the 2023 Brazil Cup happen.

"Ah, but the fans get tickets and the ST has to wait". At the good time of the Libertadores everyone wants. In the small state game nobody cares. But Baby and the Independent are there, regardless of the competition. It's São Paulo! And then comes the fan complaining about tickets? Seriously, can't we reserve the purchase of tickets, in advance, creating promotions for our everyday people? What would Morumbi be without the organized fans? Nothing more fair, right?

Baby was there every time the fans asked for protests and we did them at the CT or at Morumbi. The question: you asked, but did you go?

Baby is holding the environment when incompetent directors don't know how to do it. That's how, in a meeting at CT, the team reacted and got out of the Z4 zone in the 2025 Brasileirão. Eye to eye, without a football board.

Baby has been warning since the beginning of the year: we have no money, we need to sell and support those who stay. 1 billion in our face and we're going to hold players? No way.

Cheap base? Without money, with FIDC commitments, is there another way? If there is, tell me and I'll charge.

Marcos Leonardo: they sabotaged the signing from within. We warned.

That's why I say: in the face of the Libertadores, with Crespo needing help, Baby won't cause trouble! We need to defend SPFC!

And about charging Casares, Belmonte and that people, get the vision: Fans will only have a real voice when the Lifetime Council falls and there is a direct election with the vote of the São Paulo fan. Until then, we are hostages of the system.

Stop charging only the organized, when you could do much more too.

As for Baby, I'm always here for SPFC."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.