NEW CENTURY BROUGHT THE NOVELTY: FOOTBALL
WHEN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGAN, FOOTBALL BROUGHT FROM EUROPE MAINLY BY ENGLISHMEN LIVING IN BRAZIL, BEGAN TO MAKE ITS PRESENCE FELT IN RIO DE JANEIRO. THE FIRST CLUBS APPEARED AND, SINCE 1902, THE FLUMINENSE FUTEBOL CLUB HAD STARTED THE PRACTICE OF LAND SPORTS. DUE TO ACCESS AND DISSEMINATION, ROWING REMAINED SOVEREIGN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF FOOTBALL. WHEN THEY MADE THEIR PUBLIC APPEARANCES, THE CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES WITNESSED THE RACES OF THE REGATTAS HELD IN SANTA LUZIA, GRAGOATÁ, BOTAFOGO AND SACO DE SÃO FRANCISCO.
THE TRICOLORS CONQUERED THEIR FIRST GLORIES IN THE “MEETINGS“ – AS THE FOOTBALL MEETINGS WERE CALLED – AND THE FLAMENGO REGATTA GROUP GREW ITS NAUTICAL PRESTIGE, EXPANDING AND NEEDING TO INCREASE ITS HEADQUARTERS-GARAGE, OCCUPYING THE SECOND FLOOR, WHERE EPITÁCIO PESSOA, FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC – ZACARIA DO RÊGO MONTEIRO AND BENVINDO MOREIRA – LIVED.
IN THE DESCRIPTION OF FOUNDER AUGUSTO DA SILVEIRA LOPES, PUBLISHED YEARS AGO, FLAMENGO COULD NOT MEET THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS WHO WERE LOOKING FOR IT IN THE NARROW GARAGE OF NUMBER 22. SINCE THERE WERE NO RESOURCES FOR THE IDEA OF MOVING, THE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO GO UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR, FROM WHERE THE FORMER INHABITANTS WERE RELUCTANT TO LEAVE. AFTER MUCH TALKING, “PERHAPS FEARING THE REPRISALS WE MIGHT MAKE AGAINST HIS SLEEP,” EPITÁCIO AND HIS COMPANIONS AGREED TO TAKE ANOTHER COURSE.
IN FACT, FLUMINENSE AND FLAMENGO WERE CLOSE AND GOOD NEIGHBORS, WITH THE PRESTIGE OF FOOTBALL ON THE RISE AND THE PERMANENCE OF THE CHARM OF THE ROWING FESTIVITIES, MANY MEMBERS OF ONE OF THE CLUBS WERE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE OTHER. THERE WOULD BE THE CASE OF VIRGÍLIO LEITE DE OLIVEIRA, WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF FLAMENGO AND FLUMINENSE, GIVING VENT TO TWO DIFFERENT PASSIONS, FOR ROWING AND FOOTBALL.
IT WAS QUITE TRUE THAT, ALTHOUGH THE CHARACTERS OF THE TIME COULD NOT NOTICE WITH WHAT GRANDEUR, THINGS WERE BEGINNING TO CHANGE. THE FLAMENGO NEIGHBORHOOD GREW, REPEATING THE PHENOMENON OF THE ORANGE TREES. SOCCER WAS BECOMING BRAZILIAN, HIDDEN IN THE ARISTOCRATIC “FIELDS“, BUT DESIRED AND PRACTICED IN THE FLOODPLAIN BY THE PEOPLE OF LESS FAVORED CLASSES, BEGINNING TO APPEAR IN THE NEWSPAPERS AS MANDATORY NEWS.
IN BOTAFOGO, ON THE DAYS OF REGATTAS, THE “VITÓRIAS”, THE “LANDOLETS”, THE “TÍLBURIS” AND THE DECORATED “CABRIOLETS” STILL RODE IN CORSOS, BUT ALREADY IN THE EARLY 1910S, THE FUTURE DOCTOR ALBERTO BORGERTH FOUND HIMSELF AS A “BOSS” IN FLAMENGO’S COMPETITION BOATS AND AS AN ATTACKING PLAYER FOR FLUMINENSE. IT WAS A NEIGHBORHOOD PHENOMENON BETWEEN ONE CLUB AND ANOTHER THAT HAD ROWING. THE FANS OF ONE, IN ONE OF THE MODALITIES, WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE OTHER AND VICE VERSA.
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THE RETROSPECT
JOSÉ MARIA SCASSA
IT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE A RETROSPECTIVE OF FLAMENGO, ITS GLORIES, ITS MYSTIQUES, WITHOUT REMEMBERING MÁRIO FILHO. THE GREAT FAN WROTE THAT FLAMENGO WAS A VERY DIFFICULT DREAM TO EXPLAIN TO SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO KNOW HIM. BECAUSE – SAID MÁRIO FILHO – TO GET TO KNOW FLAMENGO YOU HAD TO CHOOSE THE DAY OF A BIG GAME. ONLY ON SUCH OCCASIONS CAN ONE GET AN IDEA OF WHAT FLAMENGO IS REALLY ABOUT. IT IS THE CROWD ITSELF THAT FILLS THE STADIUMS, GETS LOST IN THE STREETS, REACHES DISTANCES AND EXPANDS TO A THOUSAND SEATS. THIS IS HOW FLAMENGO CAN BE UNDERSTOOD. IT IS THE SOUL OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR BELIEFS, THEIR JOYS, THEIR SORROWS, THEIR LAUGHTER AND THEIR TEARS. MÁRIO FILHO ESTABLISHES, STILL IN AN EPIC EXCERPT OF HIS OUT-OF-PRINT WORK, HISTÓRIAS DO FLAMENGO: – FLAMENGO INSPIRES GOOD WILL, LOVE, DEVOTION, WHICH NO ONE DISPUTES BECAUSE IT REFLECTS IN ALL ITS GREATNESS A SIGN OF STRUGGLE THAT CAME FROM THE CRADLE, CONFUSING ITS DESTINY WITH THE DESTINY OF ALL PEOPLE.
IT WAS IN MID-1895 THAT A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN LIVING IN FLAMENGO, CATETE AND GLÓRIA, THOUGHT OF FOUNDING A ROWING CLUB, A SPORT IN GREAT EVIDENCE AT THE TIME. WITH THIS OBJECTIVE, THEY HELD A SERIES OF MEETINGS UNTIL, ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 17, THEY FOUNDED AND BAPTIZED THE NEW ASSOCIATION OF: GRUPO DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO. THEY ELECTED THEIR FIRST PRESIDENT, MIDSHIPMAN DOMINGOS MARQUES DE AZEVEDO, AND CHOSE THE DATE OF NOVEMBER 15 FOR THE GROUP’S ANNIVERSARY, SINCE, BEING A PUBLIC HOLIDAY, NO ONE COULD MISS THE STYLE CELEBRATIONS.
THEREFORE, THE DREAM OF THOSE BOHEMIAN BOYS WHO WANTED TO PLAY SPORTS AND DESIGN A SMALL CLUB THAT WAS BORN POOR, WITHOUT BOATS TO ROW, BUT DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER CLUBS BECAUSE IT HAD IDEALS, STRENGTH OF WILL AND HEART TO ACHIEVE MANY GLORIES. AND SO IT WAS. AS A GROUP, FLAMENGO BECAME A CLUB, WINNING THE MOST EXCITING SEA TITLES WITH ARNALDO VOIGHT IN HIS CANOE AND POWERFUL GARRISONS IN THE WHALEBOAT PHERUZA AND IOLE AIMORÉ. AMONG ITS ATHLETES, ROWING CHAMPIONS, STOOD OUT A YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT, NAMED ALBERTO BORGERTH WHO PLAYED FOOTBALL IN THE FIRST TEAM OF FLUMINENSE F.C. FINISHED THE 1911 SEASON WITH FLUMINENSE CHAMPION, BUT ITS FAMOUS STARS WERE IN DISSENT WITH THE CLUB. BORGERTH HAD ALREADY COMMUNICATED TO HIS GARAGEMATES THAT HE HAD RESIGNED FROM THE TRICOLOR CLUB ALONG WITH MOST OF HIS TEAMMATES. THE IDEA OF FOUNDING THE LAND SECTION IN FLAMENGO WAS THEN SUGGESTED. A GOOD TEAM, AT LEAST IT ALREADY HAD. AND THE REST? THE FIELD? UNIFORM, BOARD AUTHORIZATION? WELL, BORTGERTH, EXCITED, BEGAN TO WORK ON THE MATTER WITH THE PRE-EMINENT FIGURES OF THE CLUB FINDING FULL SUPPORT FROM THE THEN PRESIDENT VIRGÍLIO LEITE DE OLIVEIRA E SILVA, ALSO A FAN OF FLUMINENSE IN FOOTBALL. IN LESS THAN A MONTH, THE LAND SECTION OF THE CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO WAS CREATED AND WITH THE REGISTRATION ASSURED IN THE METROPOLITAN LEAGUE BY THE HAND OF MÁRIO POLO, THE CITY CHAMPIONS: BAENA, PÍNDARO, NERY, CURIOL, AMARANTE, GUMERCINDO, BAHIANO, GUSTAVINHO, GALO AND BORGERTH AND, PLUS JOAQUIM GUIMARÃES, BUARQUE DE MACEDO AND OTHERS. WHAT NOW? TRAIN AND PLAY WHERE? THE CLUB DIDN’T HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY A BALL, LET ALONE RENT A TRAINING GROUND! BUT THE CASE WAS SETTLED. FLAMENGO WOULD INAUGURATE A NEW MODALITY: THE OUTDOOR TRAINING SESSIONS IN THE FIELD OF RUSSEL BEACH PROVIDED THANKS TO DR. AZURÉM FURTADO, HIS ASSOCIATE AND DIRECTOR OF FORESTS AND GARDENS. ITS ATHLETES BEGAN TO CHANGE THEIR CLOTHES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST CEREMONY TO THE SCANDAL OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PASSED BY TRAM THROUGH LARGO DA GLÓRIA AND SURROUNDINGS. IN THE BEGINNING CAME THE PROTESTS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THEN THE POPULARITY OF FOOTBALL GREW AMONG THE PEOPLE AND STUDENTS WHO PASSED THROUGH RUSSEL, DAILY, TO THE SCHOOLS OF PRAIA VERMELHA.
FROM 1912 ONWARDS, FLAMENGO’S FOOTBALL BEGAN TO CONQUER FERVENT FANS AND IN 1914 AND 1915 IT BECAME TWO-TIME CHAMPION OF THE CITY. FIVE YEARS AFTER A NEW SECOND CHAMPIONSHIP (20TH AND 21ST), REVEALING GREAT PLAYERS SUCH AS THE FAMOUS ARCHER JULIO KUNTZ, COMING FROM THE SOUTH, AND MORE: TELEFONE, BURGOS, SISSON, DINO, CANDIOTA, JUNQUEIRA, NONÔ AND ORLANDO. THEN CAME THE 1925 TITLE WITH THE SAME STARS PLUS THE SPECTACULAR FAR-LEFT MODERATO. IN 1927 THE FAMOUS LEGEND WAS BORN: CHAMPION OF FORCE OF WILL – WITH THE FABULOUS AMADO BENIGNO CLOSING THE GOAL; PENAFORTE, HELCIO, HERMÍNIO, FLAVIO COSTA, FRAGOSO, VADINHO, CRISTOLINO, RUBENS AND MODERATO. SO MUCH TALKED ABOUT WAS FLAMENGO’S FEAT THAT YEAR, THAT THERE WERE THOSE WHO SAID IT WOULD BE THE LAST… AND IT ALMOST WAS. IT TOOK FLAMENGO TWELVE YEARS TO WIN ANOTHER TITLE, THIS HAPPENED IN 1939, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ERA OF PROFESSIONALISM, UNDER THE BATON OF FLAVIO COSTA, DOMINGO DA GUIA, WALTER GOULART, YUSTRICH, NILTON, JOCELINO, VALIDO, VALDEMAR DE BRITO, LEÔNIDAS WERE THE IDOLS OF THE TIME. THREE YEARS LATER CAME THE START FOR THE SENSATIONAL THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP, WITH JURANDIR, DOMINGOS, VOLANTE, BIGUÁ, BRIA, JAIME, JARBAS, GONZALES, VALIDO, VEVÉ, PERÁCIO, PIRILO, NANDINHO, QUIRINO, AND OTHERS. SO GREAT WAS THE REPERCUSSION OF RED-BLACK FOOTBALL THAT THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE OF THE DISRESPECTFUL TO “DRY” FLAMENGO. ALMOST TEN YEARS WITHOUT TITLES! UNTIL, IN 53, 54 AND 55 ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN THE WHOLE OF BRAZIL, FLAMENGO AGAIN THREE-TIME CHAMPION OF THE CITY. AN INDESCRIBABLE FEAT, AS THE TITLES WERE WON IN CONTESTS OF THREE ROUNDS EACH! THE PARAGUAYAN FLEITAS SOLISH, HIRED BY THE THEN PRESIDENT GILBERTO CARDOSO, HAD BECOME THE SORCERER OF GÁVEA. HIS FAMOUS PUPILS MADE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY: GARCIA, TOMIRES, PAVÃO, JADIR, JOUBER, JORDAN, THE VIRTUOSO DEQUINHA, JOEL, PAULINHO, RUBENS, ÍNDIO, BENITEZ, MOACIR, EVARISTO, DIDA, ZAGALO, ESQUERDINHA AND BABÁ. AFTER SUCH A GLORIOUS JOURNEY, AN EIGHT-YEAR BREAK WAITING FOR FLAVIO COSTA TO RETURN IN 63, AT THE HANDS OF PRESIDENT FADEL FADEL TO GIVE ANOTHER TITLE TO FLAMENGO. MARÇAL, DITÁO, JAIME, CARLINHOS, PAULO HENRIQUE, MURILO, AIRTON, ESPANHOL, NELSINHO. AND ALMOST A NEW TRI, IT WASN’T A SERIES OF MISHAPS IN ’64. IN 65 AGAIN CHAMPION WITH ALMOST THE SAME PLAYERS. TITLE FOR HISTORY: CHAMPION OF THE IV CENTENARY OF THE CITY. IMMENSE GLORY FOR A CLUB, A WELL-DESERVED PLEDGE OF A GREAT PRESIDENT: FADEL FADEL.
AND NOW A NEW DECADE BEGINS. THE MENGO-70 APPEARS WITH YUSTRICH AT THE WHEEL, DEFYING HEAVEN AND EARTH…
IT WOULD BE QUITE POSSIBLE TO GO ON ENUMERATING FLAMENGO’S ACHIEVEMENTS, DIVIDED BY ALL THE SPORTS IT PLAYS. HOWEVER, WE WOULD HAVE TO WRITE, NOT A SIMPLE HISTORICAL RECORD, BUT TO EDIT A COMPLETE WORK OF MANY VOLUMES. WE PREFER TO FOCUS ON ROWING, THE REASON FOR ITS EXISTENCE, AND FOOTBALL, THE REASON FOR ITS IMMENSE POPULARITY.
SO I LEAVE HERE A LITTLE OF FLAMENGO THAT I HAVE KNOWN AND ADORED SINCE I WAS BORN, WITH ITS STRIKING AND ASTONISHING PRESENCE IN ALL CORNERS OF BRAZIL, REMEMBERING THAT A GROUP OF EXTRAORDINARY MEN KNEW HOW TO RAISE NOT ONLY A CLUB, NOT JUST A GIANT, MORE THAN THAT, WAVE A FLAG, SYMBOL OF THE FUSION OF ALL RACES, ALL THE CREEDS, ALL THE PASSIONS, LEADING HER TO CROSS THE CLOUDS TO SPEAK WITH ST. JUDE THADDAEUS IN THE AFFLICTED HOURS, OFFERING HIM THE RESOUNDING MOMENTS OF HER VICTORIES…
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BORGERTH: A NAME CHANGES FATE
NO ONE, IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, COULD IMAGINE THE HYPOTHESIS OF A FLAXFLU, WITH THE FLAME OF RIVALRY THAT WOULD BE BORN FROM A DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN PLAYERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE TRICOLOR.
ALBERTO BORGERTH, BORN IN RIO DE JANEIRO ON DECEMBER 3, 1892, THE SON OF A LAWYER – WHO WAS A “BOSS” AND A STRIKER – WOULD HAVE A GREAT PARTICIPATION IN ALL THIS. A STUDENT AT COLÉGIO ALFREDO GOMES, – A LEADING FIGURE AT FLUMINENSE – BORGERTH WAS THE SUCCESS OF A TEAM CALLED “RIO FUTEBOL CLUBE”, ALSO MADE UP OF GUSTAVO DE CARVALHO AND OTHER FUTURE PLAYERS OF THE TRICOLOR AND WHICH MOVED THE ATTENTION OF THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD OF LARANJEIRAS.
AT FLUMINENSE, IN 1911, THERE WAS A POSITION ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO BE FILLED. THE CLUB, WHICH HAD IN ITS RANKS THE CREAM OF THE FOOTBALLERS OF THE TIME, WAS WATCHING THE DISPUTE FOR THIS POSITION BETWEEN A WING LED BY ALEBERTO BORGERTH, CAPTAIN OF THE FIRST CADRE, WHO HAD APPOINTED THE FIGURE OF JOAQUIM GUIMARÃES TO THE POST, AND ANOTHER GROUP, HEADED BY ALTAIR ANTUNES, AND FOLLOWED BY THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD IN THE NOMINATION OF MR. OSVALDO GOMES.
BORGERTH, THE TEAM’S CAPTAIN, DID NOT RECEIVE THE TREATMENT HE THOUGHT HE DESERVED. CHARLES WILLIAKS WAS THE COACH OF FLUMINENSE AND, WHEN HE HAD THE LINEUPS POSTED FOR THE FOLLOWING GAMES, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OPPOSED TO BORGERTH APPEARED TO SCRIBBLE CHANGES AND EVEN THE NAME OF THE CAPTAIN HIMSELF WAS SCRIBBLED.
PHOTOS: PAGE 29; WOMAN IN SWIMSUIT. POPEYE AND BROGERTH (BOTTOM):
BORGERTH WAS THE MAN WHO ORIGINATED RED-AND-BLACK FOOTBALL. FROM HIS SMILE TO HIS CHAMPIONSHIP BELT, HE FACED THE FIGHT, KNOWING THAT FLAMENGO WOULD COME OUT STRONGER. PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO, ANOTHER FOUNDER OF FOOTBALL, APPEARS IN COLOR IN HIS YOUTH AND IN THE PHOTO ABOVE, ALREADY ELDERLY. WITH BORGERTH, AT THE BOTTOM, ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE, A GROUP OF FIGURES OF EXPRESSION LINKED TO THE CLUB. THE FLAMENGO SHIELD APPEARS ON THE HEART OF THE YOUNG WOMAN ON THE COVER OF THE MAGAZINE AND ON THE HAND OF “POPEYE”, IT WAS DIFFERENT, AS SHOWN BY THE PHOTO OF GOALKEEPER JÚLIO KUNTZ FILHO, ONE OF THE GREATEST WHO HAVE EVER PLAYED FOR FLAMENGO.
PHOTO: PAGE 30 PLAYERS IN TRAINING: PARROT OF TWENTY.
Figure 1PENNY PARROT
THE TEAM WAS STILL UNINVESTED; THE CAPTAIN WAS A SAD ONE
ALBERO BORGERTH WOULD LATER BE A PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF RIO DE JANEIRO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH OF THE FEDERAL DISTRICT, REFEREE OF INTERNATIONAL MATCHES OF BRAZIL, ACTING IN AN IMPORTANT MATCH OF BRAZIL IN BUENOS AIRES AGAINST ARGENTINA, MERITORIOUS AND HONORARY PRESIDENT OF FLAMENGO. IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES, HOWEVER, HE WAS JUST A SAD MAN.
– ONE AFTERNOON, ON THE WAY OUT OF TRAINING, I FOUND HIM A LITTLE SAD AND, UNDERSTANDING THE REASONS FOR HIS ANNOYANCE, I OFFERED HIM THE IDEA OF A TEAM MEETING AT MY RESIDENCE, ROOM 34 OF PENSÃO ALMEIDA, LOCATED IN BUILDING NUMBER 186, ON RUA DO CATETE. – SAID PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO, BORGERTH’S TEAMMATE, REFERRING TO THE FACTS THAT GAVE RISE TO RED-BLACK FOOTBALL.
ERNESTO AMARANTE, PINDAR’S ROOMMATE, OTO BAENA, EMMANUEL NERY, AND OTHERS AGREED ON THE IDEA OF THE MEETING, AT WHICH THE SITUATION SHOULD BE FULLY CLARIFIED. BORGERTH WAS COMFORTED BY THE SHOW OF SOLIDARITY AND FRIENDSHIP FROM MOST OF HIS TEAMMATES. THINGS WERE TO BE SET ON CLEAN PLATES AT THE ACTUAL ASSEMBLY THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE EVENING OF SEPTEMBER 21, 1911.
THE FACTS HAD WORSENED SINCE AUGUST. THE ELECTION FOR THE DISPUTED POSITION HAD BEEN HELD AND THE COUNT FOUND A TIE. DR. CAVALCANTI DE ALBUQUERQUE, PRESIDENT OF THE TRICOLOR AT THE TIME, APPEALED TO THE STATUTES OF THE CLUB THAT THE OLDEST CANDIDATE WAS CONSIDERED THE WINNER IN THE EVENT OF A TIE. THE STATUTES, HOWEVER, DID NOT PRESENT A SOLUTION, AS BOTH OSVALDO GOMES AND JOAQUIM GUIMARÃES WERE THE SAME AGE.
ALONG WITH THAT, THE CHAMPIONSHIP CONTINUED AND FLUMINENSE REMAINED THE LEADER, UNDEFEATED AND WITHOUT A GOAL AGAINST UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND ROUND. THE QUALITIES OF THE FIRST TEAM WERE UNDENIABLE AND THIS FACT GAVE BORGERTH AND HIS TEAMMATES THE SYMPATHIES OF MOST PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THE CLUB.
PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO SAID THAT THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD ALLOW THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM TO STRIKE A BLOW AGAINST THE BOARD: “HOWEVER, HE WAS MODEST, JUDICIOUS AND DISCIPLINED”. FACED WITH THE DISAGREEMENT, ALL THAT REMAINED WAS SADNESS AND, AT THE MEETING OF THE ALMEIDA PENSION, A DECISION WAS PUT ON THE AGENDA, TO THE GENERAL TORMENT. THE WHOLE GROUP WOULD ABANDON FLUMINENSE AND FOOTBALL.
PHOTO PAGE 31 TEAM ON THE PITCH
PHOTO ON PAGE 31 BELOW THE INSCRIPTION – ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE, AT THE TOP, THE 1912 TEAM, WITH THE FIRST SHIRTS, MISSING ORLANDO MATTOS WHO HAD DIED. THE TWO PHOTOS ABOVE SHOW THE FLAMENGO OF 1914/15, WITH THE SHIRTS CALLED “COBRA-CORAL”.
THEY WANTED TO FOUND A CLUB WITH THE NAME OF “SÃO PAULO”
ALL THE PLAYERS OF THE FIRST TEAM WERE GATHERED, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CALVERT AND OSVALDO GOMES, WHO WERE NOT WARNED. OTO BAENA, EMMANUEL NERY, ERNESTO AMARANTE, LAWRENCE ANDREWS, ARMANDO DE OLIVEITRA (GALLO), ARNALDO MACHADO GUIMARÃES, ALBERTO BORGERTH, ORLANDO SAMPAIO MATTOS (BAIANO), GUSTAVO DE CARVALHO, PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO, AND THE PLAYERS OF THE 2ND. TEAM HUMBERTO TAVARES, ALFREDO MACHADO GUIMARÃES, MILTON NABUCO ALVES AND PARTNERS JOAQUIM GUIMARÃES AND ALFREDO BURLE DE FIGUEIREDO WERE THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING.
THE DISCUSSION BECAME HEATED, THE DELIBERATIONS SUCCEEDING EACH OTHER. THE PRELIMINARY OF THE GENERAL DISMISSAL, HOWEVER, WAS GREETED WITH A GENERAL “HURRAH”. THE IDEA OF ABANDONING THE BOOTS WAS THE LAST ONE THAT EVERYONE WOULD ACCEPT AS A LAST WAY OUT.
PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO SAID THAT GUSTAVO DE CARVALHO SUGGESTED THE RESURRECTION OF RIO FUTEBOL CLUBE, FORMED BY THE BOYS OF COLÉGIO ALFREDO GOMES, FROM LARANJEIRAS. PÍNDAR HIMSELF SUGGESTED THE CREATION OF A NEW CLUB CALLED “SÃO PAULO FUTEBOL CLUBE”, TO ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM SÃO PAULO WHO CAME TO RIO. AT THAT TIME, THE CAPITAL OF SÃO PAULO DID NOT HAVE A MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THOSE WHO WISHED TO PURSUE A CAREER HAD TO LOOK FOR THE RIO DE JANEIRO SCHOOL. HOWEVER, THE OBJECTIONS TO “SÃO PAULO” WERE MANY, MAINLY BECAUSE ONLY GUSTAVO, PÍNDARO AND AMARANTE WERE THE TEAM’S PAULISTAS.
ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE, AT THE TOP, THE 1912 TEAM, WITH THE FIRST SHIRTS CALLED “PARROT-OF-TWENTY”, MISSINH ORLANDO MATTOS, WHO HAD DIED. THE TWO PHOTOS ABOVE SHOW THE FLAMENGO OF 1914/15, WITH THE SHIRTS CALLED “COBRA ́CORAL”.
AFTER THE CHAMPIONSHIP, THE SURPRISING
THAT NIGHT THE DEFINITIVE SOLUTION WAS NOT FOUND AND A NEW MEETING WAS ARRANGED FOR OCTOBER 6, EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THE RETURN MATCH AGAINST AMÉRICA, WHICH WOULD DECIDE THE CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS TIME, IN ADDITION TO THE MAIN PARTICIPANTS, THERE WOULD ALSO BE, IN THE SAME PENSÃO ALMEIDA, ANTÔNIO DEL NEGRO, HORÁCIO FIGUEIREDO, ANTÔNIO RICARDO PINTO, ÂNGELO PINHEIRO MACHADO AND DÉCIO VICARI, ALL FROM SÃO PAULO AND RESIDENTS OF THAT PLACE. VICARI WAS A CENTRE-FORWARD FOR BOTAFOGO AND THE OTHERS PLAYED FOR AMÉRICA.
WHEN LAWRENCE, WHO WAS ENGLISH, WAS ALREADY SHOWING DISCOURAGEMENT AND ANNOUNCED HIS WILLINGNESS TO GO AND PLAY AT RIO CRICKET, IN NITERÓI, BORGERTH PRESENTED THE SUGGESTION THAT WOULD RECOVER THE GENERAL ENTHUSIASM:
— WE ARE GOING TO INSTITUTE FOOTBALL IN THE FLAMENGO REGATTA GROUP.
EVERYONE’S REASONING WORKED RAPIDLY. MANY WERE ALREADY MEMBERS OF FLAMENGO. IT WOULDN’T BE HARD TO CONVINCE THE BOARD. THAT WOULD BE THE WAY OUT.
AND, IN ROOM 34, THE FIRST “ALLE-GOACK” SOUNDED FOR ALL THE CORRIDORS OF THE PENSÃO ALMEIDA, IN THE SALUTE IN HONOR OF FLAMENGO.
PHOTOS PAGE 3 PHOTOS WITH THE INSCRIPTION UNDERNEATH THE PLAYER:
NERY, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF FLAMENGO FOOTBALL, WHO APPEARS ON THE LEFT, IN COLOURS, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PROOFS OF LOVE FOR THE RUBRO-NEGRO. HE LIVED WITH HIS FAMILY ON BUARQUE DE MACEDO STREET AND FOUNDED A WALKING RACING CLUB THERE. HIS PASSION FOR FLAMENGO WAS SUCH THAT, BECOMING ILL, HE REFUSED TO RECEIVE ANY HELP, SAYING WHEN HE WAS ASKED: – “I AM THE ONE WHO SHOULD GIVE TO FLAMENGO AND NOT FLAMENGO TO ME”. ON THE FIELD, WHEN THE TEAM WAS LOSING, HE THREW HIMSELF INTO THE ATTACK WITHOUT GIVING UP.
TWO MORE ENTRIES: ORLANDO SAMPAIO MATTOS, BAIANO, FROM BAHIA, WAS A RIGHT WINGER FOR THE FIRST RED-BLACK TEAMS. DESCRIBED AS A TRUE “SPOSTSMAN”, HE WAS DESCRIBED AS A HARD-WORKING ATHLETE WHO “SET HIS HEART IN DEFENSE OF HIS COLORS. BAIANO DIED ON OCTOBER 26, 1916. YOUR PHOTO APPEARS ON THE RIGHT.
GUSTAVO DE CARVALHO, SCORER OF FLAMENGO’S FIRST GOAL IN OFFICIAL GAMES, WAS ALWAYS AFFECTIONATELY TREATED AS GUSTAVINHO, EVEN WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB FROM 1939 TO 1942. GRADUATED FROM THE ANNEX COURSE OF THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL, HE ALSO GRADUATED IN ENGLAND IN NAVAL ENGINEERING. BORN IN SOROCABA, IN 1894, HE SOON CAME TO RIO, WHERE HE WORKED IN A BANK AND WAS A BROKER OF PUBLIC FUNDS. GUSTAVO’S PHOTO IS ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE, BELOW.
ANOTHER INTRODUCER OF FOOTBALL AT FLAMENGO, ARMANDO DE ALMEIDA (THE ROOSTER), WAS KNOWN AND LOVED AT FLAMENGO AS ONE OF THE CLUB’S HAPPIEST PLAYERS, WHICH HE STILL FREQUENTS TODAY, ON CONSTANT TRIPS FROM NITERÓI, WHERE HE LIVES. GALO PLAYED AS A LEFT MIDFIELDER AND MADE IT TO NATIONAL TEAMS. AS A FAN, HE HAS THE BEST MEMORIES OF THE CLUB HE SAW BORN FOR A GREAT HISTORY ON THE PITCH. YOUR PHOTO IS ON THE RIGHT, ON THE LEFT.
AT THE VICTORY DINNER THE CHAMPIONS WERE ABSENT
THE HEART RELIEVED, EACH ONE TOOK THEIR OWN COURSE AND THINGS WERE KEPT IN SECRECY UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON, WHEN THAT TEAM WOULD BEAT AMÉRICA 2-0 AND GIVE THE CHAMPIONSHIP TO FLUMINENSE. THAT SAME DAY, THE TRICOLOR INVITED HIM TO A COMMEMORATIVE DINNER AT THE OLD HOTEL AMÉRICA. THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE, EVERYONE WAS LOOKING, BUT NO ONE FOUND NINE OF THE CHAMPIONS PLAYERS. THE SURPRISE WOULD TURN INTO A REAL “BOMBSHELL” THE NEXT DAY, WHEN OTO BAENA PREPARED AND SIGNED IN THE FIRST PLACE THE COLLECTIVE RESIGNATION LETTER SENT TO FLUMINENSE.
– IN THIS PROUD WAY, THAT GROUP OF PLAYERS LEFT THE GLORIOUS TRICOLOR PAVILION, OFFERING IT THE TITLE OF THE SEASON AND MAKING ITS WITHDRAWAL – COMMENTED PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO, REFERRING TO THE EVENT, WHICH WOULD HAVE ITS OUTCOME ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 24, 1911, DURING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE FLAMENGO REGATTA GROUP.
BORGERTH ASKED FOR THE ASSEMBLY AND IN IT PROPOSED THE CREATION OF FOOTBALL, OBTAINING “OMNIUM CONSENSU” APPROVAL AND BEING APPOINTED TO THE DIRECTION OF THE NEW SECTION, WHILE OSVALDO PALHARES WOULD CONTINUE AS FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CLUB, WHICH HE WOULD REPRESENT IN THE METROPOLITAN LEAGUE.
THE 1915 CHAMPIONSHIP WAS LIFTED BY FLAMENGO WITH THIS TEAM: BAENA, PÍNDARO DE CARVALHO, SYDNEY, GALO, NERY (STANDING), ARNALDO GUMERCINDO, BORGERTH RIEMER, AND PAULO (SITTING)
THE FIRST GOAL ON AMERICA’S FIELD
AS A FUTURE ADMIRAL AND DOCTOR, OSVALDO PALHARES WOULD ALSO HAVE A GREAT ROLE TO PLAY IN FAVOR OF RED-AND-BLACK FOOTBALL. BY HIS ACTION WITH THE SPORTS MANAGEMENT LEAGUE, HE WAS ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT, AS FLAMENGO IS A TEAM MADE UP OF CHAMPIONS, IT SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY ACCEPTED IN THE FIRST DIVISION. TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT HE REPRESENTED, IT IS ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT VASCO DA GAMA FOUGHT TEN YEARS IN THE LOWER DIVISIONS TO REACH THE SAME DIVISION.
WHEN THE 1912 CHAMPIONSHIP BEGAN, THERE WAS FLAMENGO PLAYING ITS FIRST OFFICIAL MATCH AT CAMPO DO AMÉRICA, ON THE THIRD OF MAY, AGAINST ESPORTE CLUBE MANGUEIRA. IT WAS A DAY OF CELEBRATION, THE DAY OF THE FIRST BIG ROUT, WITH THE RED-BLACK VICTORY BY 16 TO 2. THE FIRST GOAL WAS SCORED BY GUSTAVO DE CARVALHO, WHO IN THE FIRST MATCH WOULD SCORE ANOTHER FOUR, ARNALDO AND AMARANTE SCORED FOUR EACH, TWO TO BORGERTH AND ONE TO GALO. THE TEAM PLAYED WITH BAENA IN GOAL, PÍNDARO NERY, CURIOL, GILBERTO AND GALO IN DEFENSE, BAIANO, ARNALDO, AMARANTE, GUSTAVO AND BORGERTH.
BEFORE THAT, THE BOARD’S FIRST STEP HAD BEEN TO GET A TRAINING GROUND. THE FORMER BENEFACTOR JÚLIO FURTADO HAD BEACONS ERECTED IN RUSSEL ON A DEMARCATED FIELD FOR FLAMENGO TO TRAIN. WHEN FLAMENGO “FROM THIS FIELD” WOULD DO IT IN LARANJEIRAS, WITH 50% OF THE TICKETS FOR THE HOME CLUB.
WITH EFFORT AND TENACITY, THINGS FELL INTO PLACE. FLAMENGO, ALWAYS SHOWING THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE AMONG THE FIRST, FINISHED THEIR FIRST FOOTBALL SEASON AS RUNNERS-UP AND IT WOULD NOT TAKE LONG TO WIN THEIR FIRST TITLE, IN THE 1914 CHAMPIONSHIP.
FOR MANY, THE PENNY PARROT WAS UNLUCKY
FLAMENGO DEBUTED WITH THE COLORS OF REMO – RED AND BLACK – ON A CHECKERED SHIRT THAT THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES FOUND UGLY AND NICKNAMED THE “PARROT OF TWENTY”. THESE SHIRTS, WHICH THE TREASURER HUGO PULLEN HAD BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND TOGETHER WITH BALLS, NETS AND ALL THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT, WERE EVEN CONSIDERED A FACTOR OF BAD LUCK.
AS EARLY AS 1914, WHEN BAENA; PINDAR AND NERY; CURIOL, MIGUEL AND GALO; BAIANO, GUMERCINO, BORGERTHM RIEMER AND RAUL WON THE FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP, THE SHIRTS WERE ALREADY DIFFERENT: BETWEEN EACH DUO OF RED AND BLACK STRIPES APPEARED ANOTHER, NARROWER, WHITE ONE. THE GROUP MOST CONNECTED TO ROWING DID NOT WANT FOOTBALL TO HAVE SHIRTS THAT WERE TOTALLY THE SAME AS THOSE USED IN NAUTICAL EVENTS, AND WHICH WERE ALREADY LIKE THE CURRENT ONES. HOWEVER, THE “CORAL SNAKE”, AS THE SHIRTS WITH THE WHITE STRIPE WERE NICKNAMED, WAS SHORT-LIVED, DESPITE BEING PRESENT IN THE 1914/1915 CHAMPIONSHIP. WITH THE FIRST WORLD WAR, MANY BEGAN TO CONSIDER FLAMENGO’S SHIRTS VERY SIMILAR TO THE COLORS OF THE GERMAN FLAG AND, ONLY THEN, THE WHITE DISAPPEARED SO THAT THE RUBRO-NEGRO MARKED ITS TRAJECTORY WITH THE DEFINITIVE SHIRTS, A GREAT TRADITIONAL SYMBOL OF STRUGGLE.
IN A SHORT TIME, A GREAT CLUB
IN FOOTBALL, FLAMENGO WOULD HAVE ITS NAME LINKED TO ALL THE MAIN FACTS OF THE SPORT IN BRAZIL, DESERVING INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE CONQUERING THE CANCHAS ALL OVER THE WORLD. TWO TRI-CHAMPIONSHIPS, THE IV CENTENNIAL CHAMPIONSHIP, DOZENS OF TITLES IN THE MOST DIVERSE COMPETITIONS. IN ROWING, FLAMENGO WOULD INSPIRE THE CREATION OF THE UNIÃO DAS REGATAS, THE FIRST INSTITUTION IN THE FORM OF A FEDERATION THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DISPUTES, UNTIL THEN PROMOTED BY EACH OF THE CLUBS. RED-BLACK ROWERS braved the ocean and went twice from Rio to Santos.
THE FEATS OF BASKETBALL WOULD ALSO NOT BE LONG, IN 1919, AFTER ADOPTING THE PRACTICE OF THE SPORT BROUGHT TO BRAZIL BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, FLAMENGO WOULD BE CHAMPION, FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN THE MODALITY. FLAMENGO WOULD FOUND THE ATHLETICS SECTION OF THE METROPOLITAN LEAGUE AND WIN THE 1920 CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS THE BEGINNING OF A BRILLIANT CAREER IN THIS TYPE OF COMPETITION.
IN ALL SECTORS OF ITS LIFE, FLAMENGO HAS BUILT REASONS FOR PRIDE FOR ITS PEOPLE. THE MOMENTS OF SADNESS FOUND THEIR MOTIVES IN MATTERS OF LOVE FOR THE CLUB; JOY HAS BECOME THE RULE, COMING FROM EACH OF ITS SECTORS, FROM SWIMMING TO FENCING, IN THE GREAT BALLS AND PARADES, IN THE HEARTS OF THE FANS THEMSELVES. IN THE SEQUENCE OF THESE ISSUES, THE HISTORY OF EACH OF THE SECTORS OF THE CLUB WILL SHOW THE GREATNESS OF THE CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO.
YUSTRICH, THE LESSON OF THE TIMES
BORN FOR FOOTBALL IN THE HEART OF THE RED-BLACK PASSION, YUSTRICH IS ONE OF THE FEW FOOTBALL COACHES ACTIVE IN THE COUNTRY WHO COULD IDENTIFY WITH THE ASPIRATIONS OF A GREAT AND PASSIONATE FANBASE, IN THE SEARCH FOR THE RECOVERY OF A GREAT TEAM, ON WHOSE STRENGTH BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL ITSELF DEPENDS.
PLAYING IN FLAMENGO’S GOAL AT A TIME WHEN THE MOST BELOVED CLUB REINFORCED ALL ITS SLOGANS OF STRUGGLE AND, MORE THAN EVER, APPEARED AS THE HOLDER OF THE GREATEST FIBER, YUSTRICH LEARNED TO UNDERSTAND AND LOVE THE RED-BLACK COLORS, AS A SYMBOL OF TENACITY, ARDOR AND HEART.
YUSTRICH KNOWS THAT FLAMENGO, DUE TO ITS CHARACTERISTICS OF A POPULAR CLUB, DOES NOT JUST HAVE A HOMOGENEOUS TEAM, MADE UP OF GREAT STARS AND BRILLIANT DESIGNERS. FLAMENGO REQUIRES FIGHT AND SWEAT. EACH ONE OF THOSE WHO WEAR THE SHIRT NEEDS TO BE IN TUNE WITH THE REALITY THAT SURROUNDS HIM. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT AT EVERY TURN, YOUR MUSCLES REACT ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE PASSIONATE AUDIENCE.
IN HIS EXPERIENCE IN FOOTBALL, YUSTRICH COLLECTED LESSONS, WHICH SPRANG FROM HUMILITY, WILLINGNESS TO FIGHT AND COURAGE. HE WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY, LIKE THE SCIENTIST IN A LABORATORY, THE REALITY OF THE LEGEND OF THE SHIRTS THAT PLAY ALONE. THAT, WITHOUT BECOMING A FORCE OF EXPRESSION, ONE DISCOVERS THE MYSTERY OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF MEN WITH THE COLORS THEY DEFEND.
THE CITIZEN COULD BE A SLOW DEFENDER OF ANOTHER CLUB, BUT AT FLAMENGO HE WILL NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE JUST A STAR, AND MUST BECOME THE WOUNDED LION. THE AUDIENCE WANTS THAT, THEY JUST UNDERSTAND IT THAT WAY AND IT SHOULD BE THAT WAY. THE HUMBLEST AND MOST OCCASIONAL RESERVE, WHEN CALLED TO COMBAT, MUST OVERCOME HIMSELF AND FIND IN THE EFFORT THE WEAPONS CAPABLE OF LIQUIDATING HIS OWN LIMITATIONS.
YUSTRICH LIVED THE FIRST RED-BLACK THREE-TIME CHAMPIONSHIP, WITNESSED THE RISE OF A DISCREDITED AND EMBEZZLED TEAM, WHICH SET OUT FOR AN ENVIABLE ACHIEVEMENT, BASED ON THE DETERMINATION TRANSMITTED BY THE ENTHUSIASTIC FANS TO THE PLAYERS. YUSTRICH WAS NOT MISTAKEN WHEN HE RECOGNIZED THAT ALL THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS OF A GREAT TEAM LAY IN UNITY, IN MUTUAL PERFORMANCE AND RESPECT, IN DISCIPLINE.
HE HIMSELF SAYS THAT TODAY’S IDOL MAY BE CRUCIFIED TOMORROW. FAILURES CAN OCCUR FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, INCLUDING FATALITY. AND WHEN IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID THEM, IT IS NECESSARY, AT LEAST, THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE, THE OWNER OF THE TASK, BE AWARE OF THE DUTY FULFILLED.
YUSTRICH HAS LEARNED TO FACE EVEN FATE AND IS NOT AFRAID OF IT. WITH THE RED-BLACK HEART, IT IS EASIER TO BEAT HER, AS IT WILL ALWAYS BE EASIER TO FACE ANY OPPONENT. THEY THEMSELVES RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN FLAMENGO WANTS, THEY GET IT, HOWEVER, ORDER AND DEDICATION ARE NEEDED. IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE STRUGGLE TO BE DISORDERLY AND WITHOUT A REARGUARD.
FOR ALL THIS, USING THE LESSONS OF THE PAST, YUSTRICH WANTS A TEAM THAT IS SUPPORTIVE AND OBEDIENT, DISCIPLINED AND COURAGEOUS. FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED IN SPORTS WITH THE MOST DIVERSE TYPES AND HAVE DIALOGUED WITH THE BEARERS OF THE MOST CONFUSED PERSONALITIES, THE DEFINITION OF FRIEND MUST BE PLACED AROUND THE ONE WHO IMPELS THE NEIGHBOR TO THE GOOD, TO THE DECISIVE FULFILLMENT OF DUTY.
YUSTRICH HAS LEARNED AND TEACHES THAT THE GOOD FRIEND DOES NOT MAKE UNNECESSARY CONCESSIONS, BUT DEMANDS THEM FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT. JUSTICE DOES NOT MAKE A GOOD MARRIAGE WITH INDIVIDUAL PERKS AND DOES NOT ALWAYS SURVIVE EXCEPTIONS. BECAUSE OF THIS, THE FLAMENGO COACH PREFERS TO GIVE EVERYONE THE SAME RIGHTS AND THE SAME DUTIES.
OWNER OF A STRONG PERSONALITY, HE IS UNDERSTANDING AND OMNIPRESENT, UNDERSTANDING HIS DECISIONS SHOULD LEAD TO THE SUCCESS OF THE OVERALL GOALS. IN SHOULDERING ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF FOOTBALL, HE DEMONSTRATES AND TRANSMITS COURAGE, KNOWING THAT HE IS RISKING HIS OWN PROFESSIONAL PRESTIGE.
IN RECENT TIMES FLAMENGO HAS BEEN FAR FROM ITS BEST DAYS, BUT IT HASN’T LIVED THE WORST EITHER. HE PLAYED IN CHAMPIONSHIP AND TOURNAMENT FINALS. HE FOUGHT AND HONORED THE SHIRT. PERHAPS THEY LACKED AGGRESSIVENESS AND UNITY. TRANSMITTING THE MENTALITY OF DISCIPLINE AND WILLPOWER, THE OLD RED-AND-BLACK GOALKEEPER WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE HIS FLAMENGO THE FLAMENGO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS.
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BACK COVER: PHOTO – THE FLAMENGO OF ALL TIMES
WITH THE BACK OVER PHOTO FIISHES THE 5TH PART AND THE COMPLETE WORK OF MENGO 70: FROM FOUNDATION TO FOOTBALL
THE END
BELLOW, P.S. FROM JULIO LEAL ABOUT BEST FLAMENGO’S SUPPORTS AND TIPS
P.S. 2 – TRANSCRIBED AS IT WAS AT THE TIME (1970). BEAUTIFUL!
P.S. 3 – NÉLIO: HE WAS THE SECOND GREATEST FLAMENGO PLAYER (FAN) I MET AS A CHILD, IN MADUREIRA. SON OF THE BAKER, SEO ALVES, WHO PLAYED FOR FLAMENGO, AND DONA ONDINA, ALSO HOARSE AND HEALTHY RED-BLACK. NÉLIO ENJOYED EVERYONE IN THE VILLAGE OF CAROLINA MACHADO’S 516, IN MADUREIRA, WHEN FLAMENGO WON, AND STAYED THE WEEK WITHOUT LEAVING HOME WHEN HE LOST. THE FIRST WAS MY GRANDMOTHER NAIR WHO EVEN GAVE ME A CERAMIC FLAMENGO DOLL.
P.S. 4 – THE “BEST” FLAMENGO FAN I MET WAS WHEN I WORKED THERE, HIS NAME IS GUILHERME EMBRY. A NOTABLE SUPPORTER OF THE CLUB IN ALL CATEGORIES, HE COULD BE SEEN IN A DISTANT SUBURB CHEERING AND ENCOURAGING THE INFANTIL AND LATER GOING TO CAMPOS TO SUPPORT THE PROFESSIONAL. ALWAYS DISTINCTIVE, POSITIVE, VIBRANT AND FRIENDLY WITH EVERYONE IN VICTORY AND DEFEAT. ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FAITHFUL SQUIRES, ALSO GREAT SUPPORTERS, WHOSE NAMES I DON’T REMEMBER. THERE SHOULD BE A STATUE OF HIM SOMEWHERE IN GÁVEA OR HAVE HIS NAME GIVEN TO SOME SPORTS VENUE.
P.S. 5 – OF THE MOST ARDENT DEFENDERS OF FLAMENGO THAT I KNEW, ABELARDO “BILAU” STANDS OUT, WHO PLAYED IN NATAL, AND IN RIO HE PLAYED VOLLEYBALL IN REDE JORGE NEVES. HE HAD AN ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING, HE LIVED FLAMENGO, HE HAD GOOD INFORMATION AND HE LOVED IT WHEN FLA WON, HE VIBRATED. HE TURNED INTO A BEAST WHEN HE LOST. VERY MUCH IN THE STYLE THAT ONE OF THE WRITERS MENTIONED, OF THE RADIO HOST WHO CHANGED TEAMS BECAUSE HIS OLD TEAM DIDN’T CARE ABOUT THE LOSS. D.E.P. BILAU!
P.S. 6 – RED-BLACK NATION: THE VICTORIES AND “TRIS” IN THE RADIO ERA FORMED A NATION OF FLAMENGO FANS ALL OVER BRAZIL, SO MUCH SO THAT IN A FLAMENGO GAME OF ROMÁRIO AND APOLINHO IN NATAL, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, AGAINST AMÉRICA DE NATAL, OF DR. MAETERLINK, A PACKED STADIUM, 50,000 PEOPLE, 45,000 OF THEM SUPPORTING FLA WITH SHIRTS AND ONLY 5,000 ENCOURAGING AMÉRICA, WHICH THEY WON 2-1. XUXA, MECÃO’S FAN-SYMBOL, WAS THERE.
P.S. 7 – ANDREZINHO DA REDE JORGE NEVES, A TALENT IN RUNNING, VOLLEYBALL, FOOTBALL AND OTHERS, ONE OF THOSE WHO KNOW THE MOST FOOTBALL, FOLLOWS AND READS THE GAME BETTER THAN MANY JOURNALISTS AND COMMENTATORS. CLASS SUPPORTER.
P.S. 8- GIL, GILBERTO SOUZA, WHO HAS GOOD FOOTBALL CONCEPTS, FOLLOWS EVERYTHING AND HAS EVERY TIRADE THAT ONLY FLAMENGO FANS CAN CREATE.
P.S. 8 – CHUVA, ALSO FROM REDE, ARDENT SUPPORTER, KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CLUB, EVERYTHING THAT IS HERE, FOR THOSE WHO LIKE HISTORY AND CAN CHEER WITH MORE PASSION AND REASON.
P.S. 10 – FROM ADOLESCENCE I REMEMBER TWO GOOD FANS WHO PLAYED WELL AND UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS HAPPENING: BOLÃO AND BOLÃOZINHO. THE NICKNAME WAS BECAUSE OF THE ROUND BALL THEY HIT, NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SHAPE OF THEIR BODY, THEY WERE EVEN QUITE ATHLETIC.
P.S. – 11 – TO CLOSE THE GREAT FLAMENGO FANS, ONE I’VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME, ANTONIO DO CAFEZINHO DA LAGOA, PÉ-SUJO IN QUITÉRIA, WHERE I GAVE THE INTERVIEW TO A TV CHANNEL WHEN I TOOK OVER FLAMENGO’S PROFESSIONAL IN 2005, IN THE SECOND STINT. IT HAS ALL THE RESULTS INFORMATION, VIBRATES WITH THE FLA!
P.S. 12 – AND ANOTHER ONE I’VE KNOWN FOR A SHORTER TIME, THE BAIANO FROM PADARIA DA LAGOA. HE FOLLOWS FLAMENGO AND EVERYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL LIKE FEW OTHERS, GREAT MEMORY, HE REALLY CHEERS, ALWAYS WITH THE RADIO IN HIS EAR WHEN FLA PLAYS WHILE HE WORKS, GETS INVOLVED AND SHOUTS GOAL WHEN THE TEAM SCORES, LEAVES WORK WITH THE MANTLE ON GAME DAY AND GOES HOME TO CHEER AND VIBRATE. ALMOST ALWAYS CELEBRATE, BECAUSE FLAMENGO WINS MUCH MORE THAN IT LOSES!
P.S. 13 – IT WOULD BE UNFAIR, AS I WILL BE WITH SOME, NOT TO REMEMBER THE ARIAN AND FLAMENGO SEAL, DR. RAUL, ENGINEER AND PROFESSIONAL DIVER, FISHERMAN OF THE GOOD, WHO HAS THE STORY OF THE DEPARTURE OF COUTINHO DO MARIMBÁS TO HIS DEATH IN THE SHEARWATERS THAT I HEARD THE MOST. RED-BLACK OF THE GOOD, HEALTHY AND DEEP CONNOISSEUR OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO FLAMENGO.
P.S. 14 – FLAMENGO PLAYER OF VALOR: MY FAVORITE BROTHER-IN-LAW DAVID NAZER.
P.S. 15 – TWO OTHER VALUABLE FLAMENGO PLAYERS IN WHOM THE SHIRT FITS VERY WELL: MAURÍCIO SIMÕES (ALWAYS WITH THE LATEST MODEL) AND BRUNO MAMEDE (ONE OF THOSE WHO WEAR THE MANTLE THE MOST ON THE EDGE).
P.S. 16 – WE STARTED WITH MRS. ONDINA AND GRANDMA NAIR, WE ENDED WITH OUR FRIEND AND FERVENT FAN OF MENGÃO, CHEMISTRY TEACHER, ISLANDER, LUCIA VARELLA, A GREAT VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE MILITARY CLUB. A RED-BLACK HEART, WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING AND HAS TECHNICAL ARGUMENTS WHEN DEFENDING HIS FAVORITE.
GOLDEN AGE, 77 TO 86: ROWERS FROM FLA AT THE TIME SUPERVITORIOS (1976) TRAINED PART OF THEIR TRAINING AT CAMPO DA GÁVEA, SHOOTING FROM BOTTOM LINE TO BOTTOM LINE ON THE LAWN OF THE BOM CAMPO DE FUTEBOL. IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR COACHES AND ROWERS, THEY GAVE US A HINT OF THE CHINESE VISTA RACE, MUCH STRONGER THAN THE ONE THAT FOOTBALL DID IN PAINEIRAS. IT HELPED A LOT THE ATHLETES WHO GRADUATED AT THE TIME. THE “PRATAS-DE-CASA” IN FACT “OURO-DA-CASA”: FLAMENGO DOES IT AT HOME! ALL SPORTS SUPPORTED EACH OTHER AND WON.
I ARRIVED AT FLA IN JANUARY 1976 AND LEFT IN JUNE 1982 DURING THE MOST FRUITFUL ERA, THE GOLDEN ERA, WHICH CULMINATED IN THE CONQUEST OF THE ONLY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1981. HOME SILVER – HOME GOLD: OF THE 11 WORLD CHAMPIONS, ONLY 3 WERE NOT TRAINED IN GÁVEA: RAUL, MARINHO AND LICO.
SAID A ROBED JUDGE:
FLAMENGO IS SO IMPORTANT THAT THERE SHOULD BE A LAW THAT ALWAYS OBLIGES FLAMENGO TO WIN.
PLACED IN A DRESSING ROOM AT CLUBE DE REGATAS DO FLAMENGO IN 1976, ENCOURAGING PLAYERS TO WORK HARD TO ALWAYS WIN ON THE FIELD, TO SURPASS THEMSELVES, SINCE THAT LAW DID NOT EXIST.
SIR JOHNNY WARREN
AN OUTSTANDING FLAMENGO PLAYER/FAN:
IN 1993, AT THE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN AUSTRALIA, I MET SIR JOHNNY WARREN, TWO-TIME CAPTAIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM IN WORLD CUPS, A FOOTBALL AFICIONADO, A FAN OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL, FLAMENGO AND ZICO. ADMIRABLE HUMAN BEING!
HE LEFT IN HIS WILL THAT WHEN HE DIED, HE WANTED TO BE BURIED WITH THE COMPLETE FLAMENGO COAT, WHICH ZICO HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM.
BEING SIR, BY THE QUEEN, HIS BODY WOULD BE LAID TO REST IN THE CATHEDRAL, HAVING LEFT IN WRITING WITH HIS SECRETARY AND WIFE, BRAZILIAN, THAT A SAMBA SCHOOL SHOULD ACCOMPANY THE COLLEJO PLAYING SAMBAS AND THE FLAMENGO ANTHEM.
SO IT WAS DONE!
IT’S NOT JUST FOOTBALL: IT’S SO MUCH MORE!
MENGO! 40 MILLION FANS IN 2024.
By Jucele
Julio Leal
February 22nd, 2024
Julio Cesar Leal worked twice as Football Coach at C.R do Flamengo: from january 1976 to july 1982 (the Golden Era of the Club when won the Worl Championship, in Japan, 1981 agains Liverpool) as Coach of the Youth and eventual Assistent Coach in the Mais Team. and in 2005 as Coach of the Main Team.
Julio Leal is the Coach Champion of the World Under 20 in Australia, 1993.
Julio Cesar Leal 
Muito legal!!!
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Hoje tem em Português! Final! Beijo, bom fim de semana!
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Obrigado, beijo!
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wonderful!!!!!
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