Throw away! followed Verdão’s win over Deportivo Pereira with Verdão do Espírito Santo fans
Palmeiras turns 109 this Saturday, August 26, and as proof of the greatness of Brazil’s Greatest Champion, the alviverde crowd is growing more and more in every corner of this country.
I had the opportunity to watch the match between Deportivo Pereira x Palmeiras, for the Libertadores quarterfinals, at Chiqueiro Capixaba, a Palmeiras club founded in 2016, to bring together the Palmeiras residents who live in Espírito Santo.
Nearly 1,000km from the Allianz Parque, the whites of Espírito Santo gather to cheer on Verdão at every game and whenever they can they also organize excursions to see the Palmeiras of São Paulo.
– Experiencing Palmeiras from so far requires resignation. It’s not just about taking the subway, watching the game and going home. It is giving up the free weekend with the family. Missing important dates, spend 30 hours on the road. It’s spending the night on chairs in the airport or bus station. He arrives exhausted and immediately goes to work. All this to see two 45-minute halves. We don’t do tourism, we live Palmeiras. – said Roger Louis, president of Chiqueiro Capixaba.
If in the capital of San Paolo Verdão’s main rivals are Corinthians and San Paolo, in Vitória the ‘enemy’ is another, and the recent rivalry with Flamengo is making Alviverde fans grow a lot there too.
– The stage, without a shadow of a doubt, is crucial for new fans to establish their appreciation of the team, here in Vitória the media in general work a lot on Rio teams, especially Flamengo, this factor combined with years of achievements very bad negatively it has affected the diffusion of our fans, but today the stage is wonderful and the Palmeiras fans are growing a lot in the state. – said Julio Quiquita, one of the organizers of Chiqueiro alviverde in ES.
Chiqueiro Capixaba was Palmeiras’ official consulate in Vitória for five years, but the partnership with the club ended for political reasons:
– We were Consulate for almost 5 years, until the moment I asked to resign, having understood that it was a political position, where it was not allowed to express a contrary opinion; and things got worse with the change of the Director of the Department. The consulate is just a one way street. It’s nice that the club says yes. To manage this department, which involves so many different cultures and realities, it cannot be someone who treats Palmeiras as a regional club, it is necessary to know the reality that exists outside São Paulo. Roger said.
The record number of people from Palmeiras gathered to watch a match in Espírito Santo dates back to the 2016 Brazilian title, against Chapecoense, when more than 1,000 fans took to the streets of the city to celebrate Verdão’s new Brazilian championship.
Chiqueiro Capixaba’s fans gather at all important Palmeiras matches at the Espetão 50 bar, in the Colina de Laranjeiras neighborhood, in Serra, Grande Vitória. Everyone from Palmeir is welcome there and the address is Avenida Mestre Alvaro, nº 333.
The bar owner is even a cousin of defender Luan Garcia, who left the Fundão district of Espírito Santo at a young age to change his family’s life by becoming a professional player for Vasco. Today several family members of the defender have become Palmeirenses and parade through the city wearing the Alviverde shirt with the number 13 on the back.
Source: Terra
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