THERE WERE PEOPLE CRYING AND KISSING THE FLAMENGO FLAG

MÁRIO FILHO WASN’T EVEN A RED-AND-BLACK FAN, BUT THE CAPTION MOVED HIM: “THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE STADIUM BAR – WHICH WAS THE ONE IN GÁVEA, – ALSO CRYING AND KISSING THE FLAMENGO FLAG. NO ONE ASKED WHAT TIME IT WAS. IT WAS THE VIGIL OF VICTORY, FLAMENGO’S THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP.”

OTHER HISTORIANS DID NOT HESITATE TO REPEAT: “BORN FROM AN IDEAL BORN OF A HANDFUL OF MODEST YOUNG MEN, BUT FIGHTERS, THE CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO EMERGED ON THE SPORTS SCENE DOOMED TO GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS AND GREAT GLORIES. APPARENTLY, THE IDEA OF THOSE BEACH BOYS TO FOUND A ROWING CLUB GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT THE PURPOSE WAS SIMPLY RECREATIONAL. PURE DECEPTION. THEY WANTED TO GIVE BRAZIL A REAL SPORTS SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUTH.”

IN THE MISSION HE SET HIMSELF, TO TEACH HOW TO LOVE BRAZIL ABOUT ALL THINGS, THROUGH THE HEALTHY SCHOOL OF SPORT, FLAMENGO BECAME THE MOST BELOVED BRAZILIAN CLUB. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THIS WOULD BE A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION, BUT IN FACT IT IS NOT EVERYTHING.

BORN AS THE FLAMENGO REGATTA GROUP, THE CLUB LIVED THE GREAT PHASE OF THE GUANABARINA BOAT. EACH REGATTA WAS AN OPEN PARTY, VERY MUCH IN THE STYLE OF A BEACH RIO DE JANEIRO AT THE END OF THE LAST CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CURRENT ONE. HOWEVER, BETWEEN ONE REGATTA AND ANOTHER, THE GROUP OF AFICIONADOS WAS RESTRICTED TO THE PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. IN THE BOAT GARAGES THE MEETINGS WERE A MEETING OF COMPANIONS AND THE COMPETITIONS THEMSELVES LEFT THE PUBLIC IN A VERY DISTANT SPACE, UNABLE TO LEAD THEM TO THE PASSION FOR THEIR FAVORITE COLORS.

THE GOAL OF VALIDO

VALIDO’S GOAL BROUGHT A “TRI” IN WHICH ONLY FLAMENGO DID NOT STOP BELIEVING. PHOTO PAGE 6

STATUE WITH FLA BANNER PAGE 7 HIGH

FATHER GÓIS ADDED TO THE RED-BLACK RELIGION, THE FAITH IN THE VICTORIES HELPED BY ST. JUDE THADDEUS.

PHOTO: PADRE GÓIS PAGE 7

A CLUB SHOWS IT’S DIFFERENT

IN FOOTBALL IT WAS DIFFERENT. THE PLAYER WAS THERE, WITHIN SHOUTING RANGE. THE OPPOSING FAN LIVED WITHIN REACH OF HIS OPPONENT’S HANDS. IN ADDITION, THE MEANS OF DISSEMINATION WERE EXPANDING, AS THE CARIOCA SOUGHT UNTERNITY IN HIS OWN TERRITORY AND, PLACING HIMSELF A LITTLE AWAY FROM THE SEA, EMBRACED SOCCER, AS THE MOST FASHIONABLE SPORT OF THE TIME. FROM THE MOMENT THAT PLAYERS FROM FLUMINENSE MOTIVATED THE CREATION OF A FOOTBALL SECTOR OF THE CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO, THE NEW VICTORIES WERE NO LONGER CELEBRATED ONLY BY ATHLETES AND MANAGERS, TO MOTIVATE THE FACTIONS THAT SURROUNDED THEM IN THE STANDS.

AND IT WAS IN THIS ATMOSPHERE THAT FLAMENGO BEGAN TO SHOW ITS DIFFERENCE. FOOTBALL WAS NOT YET VERY POPULAR. MANY CLUBS STILL ENCLOSED IT IN THE FOUR WALLS OF THEIR FIELDS, WANTING TO PERPETUATE IT AS AN ARISTOCRATIC PRACTICE. IT DIDN’T MATTER TO THE FIRST PLAYERS, REPRESENTATIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILIES AND AMATEURS OF A SECONDARY DISPUTE IN THEIR LIVES AS STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS, THAT IN THE FLOODPLAINS AND ON THE STREETS THE OTHERS WANTED THE SAME EMOTIONS.

WITH FLAMENGO, IN FOOTBALL, IT WAS DIFFERENT. THERE IS NO PREPARATION OF A CLUB FOR THE PRACTICE OF THIS SPORT. THE RED-AND-BLACK SUDDENLY PUT ON HIS BOOTS, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD TO OVERCOME A NORMAL RIVALRY WITH THOSE WHO PREFERRED THE REGATTAS, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD TO FACE DIFFICULTIES FROM THOSE WHO DID NOT EVEN HAVE A FIELD FOR TRAINING AND GAMES, KNOWING THAT THE POSSESSIONS OF HIS TEAMMATES DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO DREAM TOO FAR. FLAMENGO STARTED BY OUTDOING THEMSELVES.

HE MANAGED WITH JÚLIO FURTADO, A MAN FROM THE GOVERNMENT, TO PLACE GOALS AND MARK A FIELD IN RUSSEL. WHEN THEY WEREN’T GOING TO PLAY THEIR OFFICIAL MATCHES AT LARANJEIRAS, ON FLUMINENSE’S FIELD, LETTING THE TRICOLORS KEEP 50% OF THEIR TICKETS, FLAMENGO WAS GOING TO TRAIN PRACTICALLY ON THE STREET. THAT FACT STARTED THE DIFFERENCE.

FOTO DO HENFIL POW PÁGINA 8

AT FLAMENGO YOU LEARN TO LOVE BRAZIL

PHOTO OF THE FLAG OF FLA AND BRAZIL PAGE 9

– YESTERDAY AS TODAY, FLAMENGO WAS THE GREAT EXPRESSION OF BRAZILIAN FEELING. ITS FANS, AS SHOWN BY THE ALLEGORY PRINTED IN A MAGAZINE COMMEMORATING ITS ANNIVERSARY, ON NOVEMBER 15, 1939, HAVE ALWAYS FOLLOWED THE CLUB WITH THE SAME DEVOTION THAT THEY DEDICATE TO THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TEAM. NOWADAYS, WHEN THE RED-BLACK FLAGS UNITE ALONG THE STANDS OF THE STADIUMS WHERE THE MOST BELOVED CLUB IS PLAYING, THEY ALSO REPRESENT THE LOVE OF ALL FOR THE COUNTRY, WITHIN THE TRUTH THAT THE SAME MAGAZINE SHOWS US: “FLAMENGO TEACHES TO LOVE BRAZIL OVER ALL THINGS”.

PAGE 10 PHOTO TANK TOP AUDIENCE

THE AUDIENCE FOR A REGATTA HELD ON JUNE 9, 1913 WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM TODAY’S.

COMING NEXT PART 3: SOON

By Jucele

Julio Leal

Coach Champion of the World in Austrália in 1993, and several Titles with Flamengo Youth 76 to 82

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