The revolution of black people:  "without Vasco, Brazil would not have known Pelé." 

When we look to scenery musical, sportive and literary brazilian we can ask what would be the country if there is not the contribution of the blacks, northeast people and poor's this scenery. No entanto, o Brasil foi pensado e construído em meio a mais pobres e renegados. Quando esta discussão é feita no futebol uma das maiores expressões da nossa cultura, descobrimos um campo fértil para entender o país e suas particularidades. One the most brilliant moment of history of country happen in nineteenth century in twenties years.

Football came to Brazil through immigrants, even the first groups were formed by immigrants and elite people and if it were not for the action of some radio announcers who were responsible for translating various terms for football in Portuguese, until today we would be using a lot of Anglicanism in football. Nowadays we still use terms in English in football and we also have words in Spanish. But there is no interest in such a discussion at the moment. The most important thing is to see how Brazilians seek to give their interpretation and identity to the sport that has become national. So from the arrival of an imported product to turning into a national product was a long process often renegade by clubs and supporters. Perhaps because of the fanaticism stimulated by the press and the sports industry, we have gone unnoticed by something that can be the great achievement of a club, worthy of all honors, with achievements that may never be overcome.
We are going to analise at the history of Rio de Janeiro's Vasco da Gama football club in the São Cristóvão neighborhood, where it is nowadays its headquarters, instead of other big clubs that are still located in the southern part of the city. One of the most important parts of his history may be in the year 1922, when it won the second division of the Carioca championship and in 1923, when it won the first division. This fact provoked a revolution in football, because it was a team of poor, mestizos, blacks and illiterates. The other teams reacted with protests and began to demand from Vasco da Gama the presence of players who could sign the sumula of the game. Then the club hired a teacher to teach the players. The opponents' strategy failed. From then on, two great processes began: the first was the elimination of team blacks and the requirement to build the football field for Vasco da Gama to compete in the championships.
In relation of blacks, The Metropolitan Association Athletics Sports (AMEA) proposed to Vasco eliminate of its staffs its 12 blacks athletics, almost of all poor people, considered players of "doubt profession" as condition to dispute the main chanpionship. However, in april 7 of 1924, the club produced a document that became famous and knowledge as "historical response", in which he had vehemently rejected the idea of eliminating from his cadres those already excluded from society, failing to be part of the main league of Rio de Janeiro football at the time.
However, the story does not end here, the team was only part of the League Championship at that time, when was able to build its football field. The construction of São Januário had undergone a great campaign in Rio de Janeiro to obtain the resources. It was inaugurated in 1927. Since then, the Vasco da Gama stadium has been one of the most important places in Brazil until the inauguration of the Maracanã in 1950. It is still considered an important Brazilian symbol in the struggle against social and racial prejudice.
From the "historical response" to the construction of the São Januário stadium it was possible because of the alliance of some leaders ahead of their time and the struggle of the blacks themselves. The blacks made a revolution in Brazilian culture through their talents, they were subjects of a historical process that until today has not finished, but we have much to conquer, but it is important to highlight the role of the pioneers in art and football. We must emphasize the role of the leaders, but we do not neglect those "led", so we are sure that the people are not only the object of maneuvering.
Nowadays there is a reproduction of the "historical response" in Vasco da Gama's trophy room and with the reminder: "without Vasco, Brazil would not have known Pelé." In a way, the phrase is fair, but deny the other subjects of this process. In fact, without the blacks, football would not have known Pelé, who by irony never assumed his blackness.

Our shoes

In Brazilian culture shoes have great importance, nowadays, symbol of power, in the past, freedom. At that time of slavery, slaves did not wear shoes, this luxury was only granted to freed slaves. But the person who has spent most of his life walking barefoot will hardly be able to fit his foot into the numerical pattern. Thus, in colonial or imperial Brazil, being barefoot was synonymous with being captive, it was enough to look at the feet of the blacks for you to know their condition. However, it was very common for freed blacks, at the time, to buy their shoes and, although they could not wear it on their feets, carried them hanging around their necks, or when they arrived in their houses, put them in a prominent place in their residence. It was therefore necessary to show the shoes.

Well, although I talk about shoes, the intention here is not only to make discussion about a subject that seems to be exhausted, but to show the importance of the actions of the same people, who even putting their life at risk, by abdicating their personal desires, they conquer great things in the name of humanity. So why is the human being altruistic? What allows you to act according to your own conscience? So why is the human being altruistic? What lets you act according to your own conscience, even paying a high price for it?
The history of humanity was marked by historical transformations, when we can see heroes, geniuses who were ahead of their time, several preferred death to captivity, others did not corrupt and surrendered. The idea that man has his price does not fit all humans, we have exceptions. Marighella, Guevara, Lamarca, Gramsci and others of sad end. But they have a dignity that makes us feel a bit more human. Some days ago some people came to tell me and ask questions about what this reason a Brazilian woman who lived in the Middle East under the attacks of the State of Israel refused to leave her house because to stay there until the imminence of death, was the heroic act.
For this and other cases, we have several interpretations, I do not intend to account for their totality, but this woman is aware of her role in history. She lives in a country whose people do not give up their land and do not surrender. They are in fact defending their achievements and not this false Brazilian nationalism that appears four and four years in the Soccer World Cup. The Brazilian is Brazilian because of marketing and not conscience.
The key to the question is there, in consciousness, when we acquire it, there are no weapons, armies or any other force that prevents it. Consciousness is an irreversible process, it does not shut up, it even torments us, it does not let us sleep, but it is the best quality that the human being can acquire.
Then several humans showed off their shoes and they were not remembered, they were forgotten or their acts trivialized. They fought for a society to the pride of the few and the shame of many who did not even show theirs, but in this case, has another reason: cowardice. However, this subject can be discussed in another article.

Immigration: Discover a new world.

The topic of immigration is really very complex. It is not possible to have a general opinion about this. Because the impressions and questions surrounding the problem are very complex. Each immigration case is particular and can be related to the historical moment, countries involved and personal issues and subjective characteristics. There is no recipe as you are making a cake, for example. The relationship is private and each individual tells his own story.

The river empties into the sea, so much I learned, at a certain moment a Brazilian singer sang like that and another time a Brazilian poet told us that his destiny was to follow ... to go to the sea, to this poet he was a river that would follow and so we should leave it: simply follow.The analogy with the river is important because the great discussion about our existence is whether we are free to make our choices or not. Simple, we must follow destiny like a river. We are human beings and we have choices at all times, we are not like a river that has banks and can be dammed. The river has no choice, it has a limit and its fate is known to all.

When I got here, I remember perfectly well, it was a cold June morning, even though it was summer here. I brought in my luggage a little that I could bring. I was aware that when I moved to another city and country, many things would be left behind. I left not only books, records, musical instruments, personal objects, old collections, but I left a little of my soul, my identity perhaps the reason for my existence.

I think the Latin Americans, specifically the Brazilians and why not the Portuguese have a particular feeling about immigration and their pains. In Brazil, for example, in the songs, mainly in the Northeast of the country is very common a feeling rooted in pain, abandonment and solitude, including in Portuguese there is a word that has no translation: saudade. If you want to know the meaning of this word, you need to know beyond the grammatical or orthographic language, it is necessary to immerse deeply in the culture.

We translate our pains and frustrations into songs, poetry, we create words and sounds and thus express our deepest feelings. Adapting to a new land is extremely difficult, we need to acquire a new identity and conform to the loss of our own identity. But on the other hand, this non-adaptation of the immigrant in a new terrain can be a positive question, because the "saudade" brings poetry, music, movies and the idea, to build in a new country, a little of us, makes new appear places full of news and this exchange, makes us grow in a process of eternal creation

The small village in Portugal: Guidões.

If you want to know a quiet, peaceful place and have more direct contact with nature, this is a place for you. The village of Guidões is located in the north of Portugal, near the city of Porto, about fifteen kilometers away. Guidões is part of the administration of the county of Trofa and in association with another village called Alvarelhos, both form the Parish of Alvarelhos and Guidões. Although the villages are part of the same center of administration, each place has its peculiarity.

The village is a suitable place to walk and you can contemplate the green fields, vines and enjoy its silence that in some small moments is broken the noise of the cars that cross its narrow streets. In the center of Guidões is the church of São João, built in the nineteenth century,

The time and the things

The most appropriate topic for this blog is to talk about the relationship between time and things. Why should I talk about it? Yes, time is very important in our culture, we live by reason of time, we try to hold it, conquer it and hold it in our hands. But it's useless, time is ruthless, sometimes difficult or easy, but time is always running from our hands and we will not stop. But we need to talk about things, the things of the world as the pre-Socratic philosophers think. An association between time and things in the world and how our role in this case happens. But for the moment we are going to tell the world that fisolofia comes naturally together.