Galvão Bueno
Galvão Bueno is the Al Michaels/Brent Musberger/Bob Costas of Brazilian sports. He does Formula One, all Brazil matches, important Brazilian Serie A games, Olypmic volleyball, and so on. (On the wikipedia page there is a link to his page on the Globo site, which includes a photo of him from ten or fifteen years ago.) Except that whatever positives the three North Americans might (or might not) bring to the broadcasts, Galvão Bueno brings absolutely nothing positive.
He is convinced that he knows more than the ex-professionals he is paired with. He is more of a homer than the smallest of small town announcers. Every few minute he sees a foul committed against a Brazilian that no else can see. He demands that his partners affirm the injustice of the referee's decision, and nine times out of ten they tell him there was no foul, the foul didn't merit a card, etc. And he gets upset with them for disagreeing.
Nobody wants a boring, uninterested announcer, but Galvão goes too far. Everyone shares his joy when Brazil scores, and it's nice to hear the lack of enthusiasm in his voice when Brazil gives up a goal. (It goes something like "goool, goool," as opposed to "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!") My friends and I will, along with everyone else at the bar, complain about how the referee favors the other team. We neither need nor want the announcer to do it for us.
Now that I think about it, he may need another North American analog -- Howard Cosell. Galvão Bueno is convinced that he is bigger than not just the game, but the games. All of them. He knows that people love soccer, he knows that they like Formula One, but he seems to think that people value his opinion and wouldn't pay as much attention if he weren't there. And he openly doubts other people's knowledge. Casseta & Planeta, the long ago very funny and these days sometimes funny Brazilian equivalent of Saturday Night Live (except that it's on Tuesday nights, has no musical guest, and isn't broadcast live) traditionally travels to whatever country hosts the World Cup and performs skits based on, or at least referring to, what takes place during the tournament. This has been going on since the 1994 World Cup. But on Tuesday Galvão Bueno (the target of some very funny sketches) mentioned that again this year Casseta & Planeta would be broadcasting from Germany. And he said, "We know they're funny, but now we'll see if they know anything about soccer." As if any serious fan could know less than him.
Apparently in years past Globo, the biggest network, showed all the games, but every network showed the Brazil games. Not so this year, at least not yet. Maybe in the knockout rounds. But for now we're all stuck with Galvão Bueno.
He is convinced that he knows more than the ex-professionals he is paired with. He is more of a homer than the smallest of small town announcers. Every few minute he sees a foul committed against a Brazilian that no else can see. He demands that his partners affirm the injustice of the referee's decision, and nine times out of ten they tell him there was no foul, the foul didn't merit a card, etc. And he gets upset with them for disagreeing.
Nobody wants a boring, uninterested announcer, but Galvão goes too far. Everyone shares his joy when Brazil scores, and it's nice to hear the lack of enthusiasm in his voice when Brazil gives up a goal. (It goes something like "goool, goool," as opposed to "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!") My friends and I will, along with everyone else at the bar, complain about how the referee favors the other team. We neither need nor want the announcer to do it for us.
Now that I think about it, he may need another North American analog -- Howard Cosell. Galvão Bueno is convinced that he is bigger than not just the game, but the games. All of them. He knows that people love soccer, he knows that they like Formula One, but he seems to think that people value his opinion and wouldn't pay as much attention if he weren't there. And he openly doubts other people's knowledge. Casseta & Planeta, the long ago very funny and these days sometimes funny Brazilian equivalent of Saturday Night Live (except that it's on Tuesday nights, has no musical guest, and isn't broadcast live) traditionally travels to whatever country hosts the World Cup and performs skits based on, or at least referring to, what takes place during the tournament. This has been going on since the 1994 World Cup. But on Tuesday Galvão Bueno (the target of some very funny sketches) mentioned that again this year Casseta & Planeta would be broadcasting from Germany. And he said, "We know they're funny, but now we'll see if they know anything about soccer." As if any serious fan could know less than him.
Apparently in years past Globo, the biggest network, showed all the games, but every network showed the Brazil games. Not so this year, at least not yet. Maybe in the knockout rounds. But for now we're all stuck with Galvão Bueno.
posted by Venha Futuro at 3:56 PM
5 Comments:
Que venha o Futuro!
De chuteiras?
bj.
Claro que o futuro virá de chuteiras. No futuro, seremos todos craques!
hahaha!
vc acredita em duendes?
No futuro, seremos todos craques. Vai ser utópia. E quando somos todos craques vamos jogar, nossa seleção contra a seleção dos duendes.
Os duendes e as fadas, elfos, grifos, nereidas, e todo o bestiário ocidental- místico-cristão?
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