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El fenómeno Vozinha llegó a Chile y se espera un recibimiento masivo: los desafíos que tendrá el portero de 40 años

Al cuento de hadas que vive Josimar José Évora Dias en este 2026 todavía le quedan un par de páginas. “Vozinha”, el nombre/apodo con el que se dio a conocer al mundo entero a los 40 años, tendrá su primera experiencia en el fútbol sudamericano vistiendo los colores del Colo Colo, posiblemente el club más importante de Chile, al menos el más ganador de títulos locales y el único equipo chileno que logró levantar una Copa Libertadores en la historia.

El club, actual líder del torneo local, lo presentó con bombos y platillos en redes sociales: “¡Vozinha ya es del Cacique! Junto a nuestro presidente, Aníbal Mosa, Vozinha firmó su contrato y se convirtió oficialmente en nuevo jugador de Colo Colo. ¡Bienvenido a la familia colocolina!”, se lee en la publicación de Colo Colo en Instagram, una cuenta que desde la llegada del portero caboverdiano cuenta sus posteos por varios millones de visualizaciones.

Y es que el guardameta sensación del 2026 es un auténtico furor en las redes sociales, donde sumó 30 millones de seguidores gracias a sus atajadas en el Mundial, que ayudaron a Cabo Verde a cerrar una increíble participación en su debut absoluto, con empates ante España (futuro campeón) y Uruguay (bicampeón de la Copa del Mundo), además de una derrota en tiempo extra ante Argentina en 16avos de final que estuvo muy cerca de la epopeya.

Esas actuaciones del futbolista de 40 años lo hicieron acreedor de un recibimiento digno de una estrella de rock en Santiago. Tras muchas idas y vueltas, el caboverdiano llegó bien entrada la noche del domingo al país sudamericano y este lunes pasó con éxito los exámenes médicos, se puso la indumentaria del club por primera vez y luego llegó al estadio para firmar el acuerdo.

Según la prensa chilena, Vozinha firmó contrato por seis meses, con opción a otros 12 más, percibiendo un salario de 30.000 dólares mensuales. Colo Colo no tuvo que pagar por su ficha, ya que el portero había acabado contrato con el Chaves de la segunda división portuguesa y estaba en condición de libre.

“Quiero agradecer el cariño y la paciencia de los hinchas”, dijo el portero tras llegar al país. “No esperaba tanta gente después del tiempo que demoró todo para llegar aquí, entonces, es muy gratificante. Nos vemos pronto en el Monumental, muchas gracias”.

Este martes será presentado a la prensa de manera oficial tras el entrenamiento de la mañana, y la primera ovación de la afición muy posiblemente llegue el miércoles por la noche, cuando Colo Colo abra las puertas de su estadio con aforo para 42.000 personas.

Para el Cacique, la llegada de Vozinha será un punto de inflexión en la venta de indumentaria y también en la exposición en redes sociales, mientras que para el portero será una gran chance de demostrar que todavía tiene cosas por dar en el ocaso de su carrera.

Y es que llegar a Colo Colo es, a todas luces, el desafío a nivel clubes más importante de toda su carrera, al menos a nivel competitivo. Antes del Chaves pasó por el Progresso do Sambizanga de Angola, el Zimbru de Moldova, el Gil Vicente de Portugal, el AEL Limassol de Chipre y el AS Trencin de Eslovaquia, clubes con pocas aspiraciones.

Ese es el reto que le llega al portero de 40 años: demostrar sus cualidades en un equipo con aspiraciones, un gigante de Chile que viene de un pobrísimo 2025, donde se quedó sin competiciones internacionales para 2026. Por eso, por ahora solo veremos a Vozinha en la liga local, ya que el club no participa de la Copa Libertadores ni de la Copa Sudamericana.

Vozinha llega a un club donde no se puede fallar, porque el fútbol sudamericano no perdona y tiene poca paciencia, más en un club necesitado de éxitos. El debut del arquero no tiene fecha oficial, pero podría darse el 16 de agosto, cuando el Colo Colo vuelva a ser local ante O’Higgins por la fecha 19 del torneo. Será, además, la parada previa al superclásico del fútbol chileno ante Universidad de Chile.

Vozinha no será, a pesar de todo, el primer suceso mundialista de las redes sociales en llegar a Sudamérica para la segunda parte del año. Hace semanas lo hizo Tim Payne, un neozelandés que fue el furor de la Copa del Mundo antes de que se diera el furor por el caboverdiano.

Payne, que jugaba en el Wellington Phoenix de Nueva Zelandia hasta el Mundial, llegó a Olimpia, uno de los equipos más reconocidos de Paraguay, y su debut no pudo ser mejor: su equipo goleó 5-0 al Rubio Ñu este fin de semana y el lateral derecho marcó un golazo: recibió en su propio campo, habilitó a un compañero que corría solo por la banda y siguió la jugada hasta reencontrarse con el balón en la puerta del área. Desde allí, con un toque de derecha mandó a dormir el balón al fondo de la red.

Un debut exitoso para el “jugador menos conocido del Mundial”, tal como se lo dio a conocer en una campaña que inició un influencer argentino en redes sociales. Pues ya no. Ni él ni Vozinha, dos jugadores mundialistas que llegaron a Sudamérica en busca de nuevos desafíos y unos cuantos “me gusta” en redes sociales.

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Trump has a Carter-style Iran problem as the economy drags before the midterms

(CNN) — President Donald Trump is staring down two stark liabilities that threaten to damage his Republican Party in the midterms and to ruin his second term-legacy.Somehow he’s maneuvered himself into a more vulnerable spot regarding Iran than any president since Jimmy Carter. As in the 1979-80 hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic is exerting political pressure that it can dial up on the US leader ahead of a national election. A week ago, Trump’s team predicted a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was imminent. But Tehran, now dictating terms to the US global superpower, has imposed tough new conditions.At the same time, Trump faces a separate but related problem at home. The war’s impact on energy prices is further souring voter perceptions of the economy. He’s entered the doom loop in which presidents and officials scan data for silver linings but voters see only indifference to their plights. Twists like Friday’s bad jobs report are untimely for the GOP with November fast approaching.As the political environment darkens for Republicans, their leader seems oblivious. Many of Trump’s weekend social media posts might have been scripted by his foes to portray an out-of-touch president. He posted a picture with South African golf legend Gary Player, and another of the sculpting of a new green at one of his courses. He posted about a futuristic drone port on the proposed White House ballroom, the Reflecting Pool renovation, and two statues in Washington newly coated with glistening golden paint. He also claimed to be a slayer of inflation, but he looked more like a president desperately trying to leave a physical legacy rather than one brimming with ideas for national renewal.The weekend did deliver a victory for Trump: The Senate narrowly confirmed his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche as US attorney general. But this is a win that will appeal more to the president than to voters. And Republicans left town after proving their own warnings that Trump’s top-priority voting restrictions bill can’t pass. And the president’s grim August took another rough turn abroad, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected another supposed triumph — a plan to disarm Hamas in Gaza.Are Democrats handing Trump a lifeline?Such political challenges would typically spell trouble for incumbent presidents in midterm elections. And as CNN’s Aaron Blake pointed out Sunday, multiple polls now show that Trump has squandered the traditional GOP advantage in two areas: national security and the economy.Trump’s thwarting of convention has always been a political strength, and he’s less than two years past the greatest political comeback in US history. But the dynamics of November’s election may not favor him. He’s always been more effective politically as an outsider, as in 2016 and 2024. He is the political establishment now, and previously when he’s been forced to defend his own record, as in the 2018 and 2020 elections, he has foundered.The president is also in denial about how voters are feeling. “They are not angry at me, but they’re angry at Republicans,” Trump told Punchbowl News last week.But in recent weeks, Democrats may have given him an opening. Primary wins by progressive and democratic socialists are fueling Trump’s claims that he is resisting a tide of left-wing extremism. In a parallel to the GOP’s tea party insurgency earlier in the century, Democrats may risk winnable seats by nominating candidates who alienate more moderate, suburban voters who tend to decide elections.Progressives, however, believe that the jumbled political circumstances create the conditions for a breakthrough among voters who aren’t just down on Trump but who also disdain the moderate Democratic establishment — especially after the failed campaigns of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris allowed Trump to regain the White House.Progressive Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday homed in on Trump’s vulnerability on the economy as he pivoted from a bitter primary in a state that could decide who runs the Senate. “Differences that we hashed out are so much smaller than the similarities that we share: a responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump and the ways that he’s used his power for his own gain, for his family’s finances, rather than to improve your family’s finances,” El-Sayed told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”Iran digs in to defy TrumpIn 1980, Iran exerted leverage over a US election after holding 52 Americans in Tehran in a standoff that eventually lasted 444 days. Forty-six years later, it’s not people being held hostage — but the Strait of Hormuz oil exporting route. This means the regime has another election-season pressure point as US voters — as they did with Carter — turn on a president over the economy.Average national gasoline prices are back above $4 a gallon, according to AAA. Voters are angry about high prices and are struggling against longer-term affordability trends in housing and healthcare.Trump officials have repeatedly stressed that the burden will quickly ease once the strait opens. But, paradoxically, their comments may only bolster Iran’s negotiating position. Tehran has toughened its demands, including the ending of a US maritime blockade and the departure of American forces from the region; it also wants US compensation for the war and a lifting of sanctions.This not a deal Trump can accept, so Iran may be overplaying its hand. But if Trump loses patience and relaunches the war, he’ll be doubling down on a deeply unpopular conflict and inviting a worse economic backlash.The president is trying to recapture the initiative. He told Axios he’s now waiting for the economic impact of the US blockade to kick in. “We are low-keying it,” Trump said Sunday. “We are only semi-negotiating with them.”In effect, therefore, Trump — after devastating Iran’s military, setting back its nuclear program in last year’s air strikes and hammering its defense industrial base — is betting on the US economy’s greater endurance to get him out of his strategic dead end.Many analysts believe Iran is more willing to impose suffering on its people as its radical leaders pursue their existential struggle with the US. Maybe the regime will collapse. But it seems unlikely on Trump’s short political timeline.White House insists the ‘economy is booming’Republicans can’t wait for domestic relief from the war. Official data Friday showing the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July was a fresh blow to the White House and Republican reelection campaigns — and to all the Americans out of work. But the administration is not wrong to argue the economy is fundamentally resilient — even as high food and housing prices, and wages that don’t seem to keep up, mean most people don’t recognize Trump’s economic “golden age.”This gap between a White House’s perception of the economy and the experience of regular Americans is a perennial political trap that is often triggered by discordant rhetoric.“The bottom line is that, if you look at the overall economy, then things are really, really booming,” Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNN’s Tapper. Hassett argued that job losses last month reflected the end of temporary work from the World Cup finals and teachers taking July off. He insisted the economy was creating high-quality jobs and that prices were moderating.But calibrating an economic message is among the trickiest tasks in politics. It defeated the Republican presidential campaign of John McCain in 2008; Democrats’ midterm campaigns under President Barack Obama in 2010; and the failed campaigns of Biden and Harris in 2024.And the economy is just one of Trump’s problems.He told Axios that that the war “will work out. It always works out. It’s like a chess game.” But on Iran and across the broader political spectrum, his endgame is impenetrable.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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