I remember being 5 and in my first visit to Brazil, my uncle, living in Porto Alegre, took me to a football match between Inter and an invited team. The stadium was mostly red by the locals, but call it stubborness or rebelry, I wanted the green guys to win. I was too young to understand that it was a friendly match, and all I cared was for the underdog stories I saw in movies. That was all I knew about that green team, until July of this year, when I saw them again In the Copa Sudamericana.
I was amazed at how they defeated favourite after favourite, finally taking on San Lorenzo and advancing to the finals to beat the current Libertadores champions.
It would be a historic match, a once in a lifetime chance, regardless of the result.
It would.
Força Chapeco.