Opinion: Five years of "the attack" that made the Portuguese disappear | Portuguese

A few days later, the Lusitanians are surprised by a complaint to the Superior Court of Justice of the sport. Héverton would have been involved irregularly. The midfielder came in the final minutes of the match instead of Wanderson and barely touched the ball.

He had served a suspension but was punished with two games in a STJD lawsuit. The rest of the story is known. The Portuguese lost points and were downgraded to Serie B. From there to, they experienced successive falls until they were without division.

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The São Paulo public prosecutor's office opens an investigation, came to insinuate corruption in the formation of Héverton, claimed to have gathered evidence and gained space in the media. However, this calculation slowed down and the developer, Roberto Senise, never regretted it.

Former prosecutors, politicians and men of power took over. There were several accusations that there was something more than a simple mistake in the internal communication of the Portuguese, who would have failed to warn their coach Guto Ferreira of the impossibility of playing Héverton.

At the time, everyone was getting a projection, but nothing was successful. At the end of 2013, the Portuguese president of the time, Manuel da Lupa, ended his term. Ilídio Lico badumed the command of the club on a basis of consensus between the situation and the opposition.

Nothing has been done internally to establish the case or to punish the person responsible. It was only after a lot of pressure from the supporters and months of silence that the deliberative council committee reproached a handful of men for administrative errors, without any trace of crime.

The former president Manuel da Lupa, for example, was expelled. He then appealed to the court and obtained favorable decisions. The club's organs have never again mobilized. It is precisely for this reason, and only with the image, that certain attitudes have been taken internally.

While the case had disappeared from the media and the protagonists had disappeared under the spotlight, Portuguesa had collapsed. The "Héverton affair" was not the cause, but the engine of a sequence of amateur, incompetent and irresponsible administrations.

Among the controversies that would have benefited Flamengo or Fluminense, the theatrical conduct of the STJD or the criticism of the omission of the prosecution, the only victim of this whole story was the Lusitanian crowd. The fans paid the price alone.

In case of corruption or administrative error, the guilty should be held responsible. However, none of this has happened. If there was a character who had the worst consequences, it was not a top hat, STJD, MP, Fla or Flu. That was the Lusitanians.

A crowd that went to the stadium throughout the championship, fighting alongside the club and seeing that the permanence of Serie A had been reached, was diluted in a few days. A crowd who watched the directories ruin the club in the B, C, D and now without division.

A crowd that never said anything about "the Héverton affair", which closed the Avenida Paulista in protest, which put pressure on the Deliberation Council and made what was within his reach. A cheerleader who, in fact, is more interested in elucidating the case.

A joy that does not care that the truth is guilty inside the Canindé. A joy that still lives with this open wound. A crowd that sees Lusa die. A crowd that, so maltreated and desperate, demands a breath of justice.