“I love everything that was/Everything that is no longer/The pain that no longer hurts me/The old and erroneous faith”. Paraná could have engraved these verses by Fernando Pessoa on the tickets for its return to football games.
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It’s just that there isn’t a single passage in his history that symbolizes the fans’ demonstration of love for his cause. It’s true that this sensitivity was provoked by the demonstration of idealism by industrialist Carlos Augusto Werner.
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Forgetting the mistreatment he received within the club and the R$9 million he donated, he was overcome by indignation at seeing Paraná in the Second State Division. And then, he returned as a kind of predestined person to fulfill a mission: to save the life of Paraná that the effrontery of many tricolors left abandoned in the middle of the road.
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And all the advertising was based on real facts, without selling illusion. The desperation of doctors and nurses in an ICU and ambulances running through the city symbolize the state of life in Paraná, in the brilliant script designed by tricolor João Carvalho, known as João Quitéria.
But not even Werner’s act, however noble and pure it may be, would have such repercussions if it weren’t for the popular greatness of Paraná.
Paraná Clube sells more than 70 thousand tickets
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Robbed, disgraced and humiliated by his own people, he sustained himself with popular love, even though it was a love in expectation. More than 70 thousand tickets for the 5 games on the program have already been sold.
The limit of 100 thousand, for so much nostalgia, may not be enough. Nostalgia is what makes things stop in time, wrote the poet from Rio Grande do Sul, Mário Quitana.
And if you want to live again, let it be big and complete. And nothing is more noble and proud than starting to satisfy this popular longing in the majestic Arena da Baixada, of Clube Athletico Paranaense.
French theologian Alain de Lille wrote “a thousand streets lead men to Rome”. Now, all roads lead the tricolors to Baixada, Couto, Vila Capanema…. and back to life.
