POSTSCRIPT BY JULIO LEAL

P.S. 1 – I RECEIVED TWO COPIES OF THE SET OF 6 FASCICLES OF MENGO 70 WHEN I WENT TO WORK THERE IN JANUARY 1976, ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PIONEERS OF FUNDÃO, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS AND MASTERS JAYME PIMENTA VALENTE AND SEBASTIÃO BARROSO LAZARONI, WHO HAD BEEN PROMOTED IN THE CATEGORY IN THE CLUB, FOR THEIR BEAUTIFUL WORK AND INDICATED ME FOR THE OPEN POSITION. EVERY COACH WHO ARRIVES OR STARTS AT THE CLUB SHOULD RECEIVE THIS BIBLE, A VERY USEFUL RELIC, FULL OF LESSONS.

P.S. 2 – TRANSCRIBED AS THE SPELLING WAS AT THE TIME (1970). BEAUTIFUL!

P.S. 3 – NÉLIO: HE WAS THE SECOND GREATEST FLAMENGO PLAYER I MET AS A CHILD, IN MADUREIRA. SON OF THE BAKER, SEO ALVES, WHO PLAYED FOR FLAMENGO, AND DONA ONDINA, ALSO PURPLE AND HEALTHY RED-BLACK. NÉLIO MADE FUN OF EVERYONE IN THE VILLAGE OF 516 OF CAROLINA MACHADO, IN MADUREIRA, WHEN FLAMENGO WON, AND STAYED THE WEEK WITHOUT LEAVING THE HOUSE WHEN HE LOST. THE FIRST WAS MY GRANDMOTHER NAIR WHO EVEN GAVE ME A CERAMIC FLAMENGO HEAD 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 CHILDREN’S TEAM AND LATER GOING TO CAMPOS TO SUPPORT THE PROFESSIONAL. ALWAYS DISTINCTIVE, POSITIVE, VIBRANT AND FRIENDLY WITH EVERYONE IN VICTORY AND DEFEATS. ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FAITHFUL SQUIRES, ALSO GREAT FANS, WHOSE NAMES I DON’T REMEMBER. THERE SHOULD BE A STATUE OF HIM SOMEWHERE IN GÁVEA OR HAVE HIS NAME GIVEN TO ANY SPORTS SPACE.

P.S. 5 – OF THE MOST ARDENT DEFENDERS OF FLAMENGO THAT I HAVE MET, ABELARDO “BILAU” STANDS OUT, WHO PLAYED IN NATAL, AND IN RIO PLAYED VOLLEYBALL IN THE JORGE NEVES NET. HE HAD AN ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING, HE LIVED FLAMENGO, HE HAD GOOD INFORMATION AND HE LOVED IT WHEN FLA WON, HE WAS THRILLED. HE BECAME 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 DEFEAT. D.E.P. BILAU!

P.S. 6 – RED-BLACK NATION: THE VICTORIES AND “TRIS” IN THE RADIO ERA FORMED A NATION OF FLAMENGO FANS THROUGHOUT BRAZIL, SO MUCH SO THAT IN A GAME OF ROMÁRIO AND APOLINHO’S FLAMENGO IN NATAL, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, AGAINST AMÉRICA DE NATAL, OF DR. MAETERLINK, A PACKED STADIUM, 50,000 PEOPLE, 45,000 OF WHOM SUPPORTED FLA WITH SHIRTS AND ONLY 5,000 ENCOURAGING AMÉRICA,  WHO WON BY 2 X 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 FOOTBALL THE MOST, FOLLOWS AND READS THE GAME BETTER THAN MANY JOURNALISTS AND COMMENTATORS. CLASS SUPPORTER.

P.S. 8- GIL, GILBERTO SOUZA, WHO HAS GOOD CONCEPTS OF FOOTBALL, FOLLOWS EVERYTHING AND HAS EVERY TIRADE THAT ONLY FLAMENGO FANS CAN CREATE.

P.S. 9 – CHUVA, ALSO FROM REDE, ARDENT FAN, 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 THE BODY, THEY WERE EVEN VERY ATHLETIC.

P.S. – 11 – TO CLOSE THE GREAT FLAMENGO PLAYERS, 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 THE PROFESSIONAL OF FLAMENGO IN 2005, IN THE SECOND STINT. IT HAS ALL THE INFORMATION OF RESULTS, VIBRATE WITH FLA! AND THE PASSIONATE AND FERVOROS0 FLAMENGO PLAYER LÉO, A RECENT FRIEND.

P.S. 12 – ANOTHER ONE I’VE KNOWN FOR A SHORTER TIME, THE BAHIAN 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 WORKING, GETS INVOLVED AND SHOUTS GOAL WHEN THE TEAM SCORES, LEAVES WORK WITH THE MANTLE ON GAME DAY AND GOES HOME TO CHEER AND VIBRATE, HAVE A COLD ONE. 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 ARYAN AND FLAMENGO FOCA, DR. RAUL, ENGINEER AND PROFESSIONAL DIVER, GOOD FISHERMAN, WHO HAS THE STORY OF COUTINHO FROM MARIMBÁS LEAVING FOR HIS DEATH IN THE SHEARWATERS THAT I HEARD BETTER. RED-BLACK OF THE GOOD, HEALTHY AND DEEPLY KNOWLEDGEABLE OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO FLAMENGO.

P.S. 14 – FLAMENGO PLAYER OF VALUE: MY FAVORITE BROTHER-IN-LAW DAVID NAZER.

P.S. 15 – WE STARTED WITH DONA ONDINA AND GRANDMA NAIR, WE ENDED WITH OUR FRIEND AND FERVENT FAN OF MENGÃO, CHEMISTRY TEACHER, INSULANA, LUCIA VARELLA, A GREAT VOLLEYBALL PLAYER FROM CLUBE MILITAR. RED-BLACK HEART, WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING AND HAS TECHNICAL ARGUMENTS WHEN DEFENDING HIS FAVORITE, AND THE MOTHER OF FLAMENGO GRANDCHILDREN EDUARDO AND BRUNO, ALSO A GREAT FAN OF MENGO AND MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GABY MUNDIM. THANK YOU!

GOLDEN AGE, 77 TO 96: FLA’S ROWERS AT THE TIME SUPERVIOSOS (1976) TRAINED PART OF THEIR TRAINING SESSIONS AT THE GÁVEA FIELD, TAKING SHOTS FROM END LINE TO END LINE ON THE LAWN OF THE GOOD SOCCER FIELD. IN CONVERSATIONS WITH HIS COACHES AND ROWERS, THEY GAVE US A HINT OF THE VISTA CHINESA RACE, MUCH STRONGER THAN THE ONE THAT FOOTBALL DID IN PAINEIRAS. HE HELPED THE ATHLETES TRAINED AT THE TIME A LOT. THE “SILVERWARE-OF-HOUSE” ACTUALLY “GOLD-OF-THE-HOUSE”: FLAMENGO’S STAR 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 CUP, IN 1981. HOME SILVER – HOME GOLD: OF THE 11 WORLD CHAMPIONS, ONLY 3 WERE NOT TRAINED IN GÁVEA: RAUL, MARINHO AND LICO.

A ROBED JUDGE SAID:

FLAMENGO IS SO IMPORTANT THAT THERE SHOULD BE A LAW THAT ALWAYS OBLIGES FLAMENGO TO WIN.

PLACED IN A LOCKER ROOM OF THE 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:

IN 1993, AT THE WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP IN AUSTRALIA, I MET SIR JOHNNY WARREN, TWICE CAPTAIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM IN WORLD CUPS, FOOTBALL AFICIONADO, 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 FLEMISH COAT, WHICH ZICO HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM.

BEING SIR, BY THE QUEEN, HIS BODY WOULD BE VEILED IN THE CATHEDRAL, HAVING LEFT IN WRITING WITH HIS SECRETARY AND WIFE, BRAZILIAN, THAT A SAMBA SCHOOL SHOULD ACCOMPANY THE COLLATION PLAYING SAMBAS AND THE FLAMENGO ANTHEM.

SO IT WAS DONE!

IT’S NOT JUST FOOTBALL: IT’S MUCH MORE!

MENGO! 40 MILLION FANS IN 2024.

By Jucele

Julio Leal

Football Coach World Champion Under 20 in Australia, in 1993, Brazil’s third championship!

Coach of the Base of C. R. do Flamengo and eventually Assistant of the Professional from January 1976 to June 1982 (Golden Era of Flamengo when he won his only World Cup in the Main Category, in Japan, against Liverpool, in 1981. only 3 of the 11 starters were not trained at Flamengo (Raul, Marinho and Lico).

Coach of the Flamengo First Team in 2005 (for a short time).

P.P.S – I ADD ANOTHER GREAT FLAMENGO PLAYER THAT I MET MORE RECENTLY, PRESIDENT OF THE VETERANOS DO ZUMBI GROUP, WHO CELEBRATED 76 YEARS OF EXOSITENCE, CARLINHOS ZARUR, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, AND WHO IN ANOS DE iNFANTO (IN 1968), BY PORTUGUESA, SCORED A GOAL IN ME (OLARIA).

P.P.S. 2 – I ADD ANOTHER GREAT FLAMENGO PLAYER THAT I HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME, SINCE UNIVERSITY, A PIONEER OF GOLD IN FUNDÃO, BUT ONLY IN RECENT YEARS HAVE I REALIZED SUCH LOVE FOR MENGÃO: TADEU ARINO GOMES VISCARDI!

Libertadores 2025 Story:

There was an Annual Meeting of the Jorge Barbosa Network, The Most Charming of the Waterfront, on November 29, at 1 pm, in Ipanema, previously scheduled without knowing the Finalists.

One of the participants of the Group, Lucia Varella, who is up there as one of the most fervent red-black fans, apologized, declined the invitation, justifying the need to concentrate for such an important decision. He went to concentrate with Filhos, Mana and Amigos in Adão do Leblon.

After the Meeting Si and Naldo (best friends of mine and Lucia) invited me to have another draft beer at Boa Sorte, in Garcia, because they had not yet tried their draft beer or the famous Codfish Cake from Dona Conceição, the Best in Rio, perhaps in Brazil!. We walked from Henrique Dumont, we sat down and asked Gabyshow for the dumplings and 3 “Chop”.

At the next table was Leo, red-black, Vô do Romeu, also honored in the lines above. I introduced him and knowing that Leo usually goes to another bar I asked why he was there, to which he replied: in 2019 I watched it here and we won, in 20 I watched it elsewhere and we lost, in 2022 I came here and won again, Bar Boa Sorte was lucky, even my Flamengo friends asked to watch it here.

We left before the game started and went to Adão to watch the game with Lucia and a crowd, there was no room, we stayed at the bar next door and got “choppis” from Adão, to disguise a little food where we were.

Flamengo 1 x 0 Palmeiras, Mengo Tetra and qualified for the World Cup.

I’m sure that Lucia’s concentration and Leo’s return to Boa Sorte gave Flamengo the victory, added to the quality of the team and the coach.

It’s not just football, it’s much more, and Mengo much much more!

By Jucele

Julio Leal

December 01, 2025