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Brazilian Série A standings after gameweek 33, with a 3-way tie for both 1st and 17th place.
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How do people feel about RB Bragantino in Brazil? Do they hate them like Leipzig in Germany or not really care?
From my part, indifferent. I really dont care about them, but id much rather having them as champions, than botafogo or palmeiras.
Indiference is the right word, but as we hate the rivals more i think neutrals would pick them to win the title race as they aren't great rivals for anyone
much rather them win it than Palmeiras or Flamengo
Our clubs are so poorly managed that we think RB can set a good example on how to do things correctly. We don't really care about they being an artificial team, we have more important issues to deal with, like very bad football pitches.
Most people feels indifference mostly because Bragantino is from a City with 170k people and has a very small amount of fans, some people call them an "artificial team", but the only thing they really changed was the team's logo and added "red bull" in front of the name, apart from that it's the same team, in the same city and stadium and the same fans.. they just just a decent management now.
Yes, the difference between Leipzig and Bragantino is that Bragantino had some history in Brazilian football before Red Bull.
Bragantino had already won 1 Série B title in 1989, 1 Campeonato Paulista title in 1990 and was runner-up in the Brasileirão in 1991.
This reduces the feeling of an artificial team.
Fun fact to foreigners: Red Bull tried to create a team from scratch in Brazil called Red Bull Brasil. It didn't make it out of the bottom divisions hahaha. Brazilian football is ruthless.
Red Bull Brasil is weird because they had some good campaigns in the Paulistão, which is a pretty difficult tournament, but they were trash in National Divisions. Also, it still exists, but it's called Red Bull Bragantino II now.
Campeonato Paulista is difficult, but there was a time (I don't know if it's changed) when the rules were crazy and could cause some distortions in the perception of teams' strength.
The lower national divisions of the Brazilian championship are some of the hardest tournaments around: you got to travel thousands of kilometers to cities that have no airports, play in absolutely terrible stadiums in awful heat... and while in Europe you would expect the competition to be awful, as the clubs have no money, you got to remember Brazil forms a metric ton of players.