Forever in debt to their existence – 111 years of Palmeiras | OneFootball

Have you ever stopped to think about the things that make you cry? How many of them are still big enough to take you to the most genuine and sincere emotion we have? At some point in life, almost nothing sounds new or impetuous enough not to be controlled by the maturity we acquire. Football, however, is immune to time. From youthful innocence to adult distrust, our team is our most overwhelming impulse.

I still haven't learned to contain myself when Palmeiras exists, and I don't intend to. I consider and have no great doubt about the harm it does, but it's worth it. It's Palmeiras that brings us a good part of the friends we have, the communities we belong to, the families that blood didn't give us, the partners we find around the world, always crossing oceans to support a jersey.

After turning 30, we start choosing some causes to live for, not all of them fit in the agenda or the emotional turmoil of this troubled generation, but I've never seen us ponder any logic for the team we were born knowing was ours. Is it raining? Cape! Is it cold? New Green sweater. Is it broke? Let's go to the bar, watch Palmeiras. Is it painful? It's healing. Is it sad? It's joy. Is it happy? It can even be sadness, but it's belonging. Everything is better on a Palmeiras day, including frustration. Cause is greater than victory.

Among all the things I'm proud of in life, saying my heart team leads the list, with plenty to spare. I've always filled my mouth to say the name of Palmeiras, defend the club's history to whoever wants to. This decision to feel is not a rational act, we don't analyze the market and choose the best of the moment – we're born like this, we are like this, we want the next ones to be too. Love is a matter of the soul, you know that.

On Palmeiras' 111th birthday, I feel like a proud family member, who sees their great love being taken care of as it deserves, who now travels to other countries and is seen as a universal elite of football. I'm completely in love with Green, White, and Red, I do anything for the feeling that is, and always will be, the end for any means, our peace in the midst of war and our daily war for peace.

I love you with my best feelings, SEP! Eternally indebted to your existence.

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