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It's ours! Flamengo star could shine at Maracanã for the Brazilian National Team
01 Set 2025 | 15:55
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24 Jul 2024 | 14:12 |
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Wednesday (24) is Vitória x Flamengo, and Mengão has the mission to continue scoring away from home. But playing away from home doesn't seem like a problem for Rubro-Negro so far. Mais Querido is the second club that scored the most when playing away, behind only Botafogo. The good performance is hope for the important night of the Brasileirão.
The table showing the visitors' scores has Mengão with 15 points, but despite second place, the team has one game in hand. Botafoguenses played nine times away from home, and Flamengo, eight. The postponed game against Internacional would be away.
The rival has 17 points. In other words, Fla could become the best visitor to the Brasileirão if they win the game against Vitória. Botafogo even has more defeats. There are two away matches, while Rubro-Negro is the only team to have lost just once as a visitor. The balance is also higher, as Flamengo scored 16 goals and conceded eight. The rival only found the net 13 times, being conceded nine times.
There is, therefore, a balance that puts Flamengo with an even better performance than Botafogo away from home. But to actually become the best visitor, it will take a black and white stumble. Tonight, the team also plays away, visiting São Paulo. If they stumble and Fla wins, Mengo will end the round as the best visitor.
Linked to Flamengo's good performance away from home is Vitória's poor performance at home . The club is one of the five worst, appearing 15th in the Brasileirão table counting only scores made as home team. In nine games, there were five defeats, one draw and only three wins.
In addition, the club conceded 14 goals, scoring just 11. With just ten points at home, Thiago Carpini's team faces one of the best teams in Brazil and that have piled up cups in recent years. Therefore, Flamengo appears as the clear favorite.
The tournament champion says it will be necessary to respect the Argentine club and that the result of the first leg at Maracanã could influence fans in the return leg.
02 Set 2025 | 09:30 |
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Flamengo and Estudiantes (ARG) will face each other on September 18th and 25th in search of a spot in the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores da América . Most experts consider Flamengo to be the favorite, but according to former defender Leandro Desábato, who won the competition in 2009 with the Argentine club, the first leg at the Maracanã will be decisive.
Debate about Flamengo vs Estudiantes, in the Libertadores: "If you get a good result in Brazil, you'll have a chance"
"Flamengo has a very good team. I thought Estudiantes would decide it away, but it will be at home. If they get a good result in Brazil, they'll have a chance. When you put pressure on the fans and make the opponent feel it, they don't like it . Estudiantes has good players who have dropped off in performance, but they remain important," said Desábato.
The former defender also highlighted the strength of the Argentine fans as a decisive factor: "Estudiantes is highly respected, a role model. Players who play there always say it's a different club, and that helps a lot. The fans transmit this energy, and in the Libertadores, it's even more felt . They make you believe you're going to win, even without having the best team," he added in an interview with Cielosports.
Estudiantes secured home advantage after finishing first in Group A , the same as Botafogo, with 12 points. Flamengo , in turn, advanced with 11 points in Group C. In the round of 16, the team from La Plata eliminated Cerro Porteño (PAR), winning 1-0 away and drawing 0-0 at home.
The winner of the match will face the qualifier from Racing (ARG) vs Vélez Sarsfield (ARG) in the semi-finals .
Alvinegro understands that there is a gap in one of its agreements and saw a good strategy in joining forces with Mengão to guarantee better values.
02 Set 2025 | 08:50 |
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Flamengo officially announced Betano as its newest master sponsor in a multi-million dollar contract valid until 2028. Before the deal, Corinthians tried to negotiate with the company, but the Rubro-Negro rejected any possibility of a joint partnership with the São Paulo club.
According to journalist Pedro Ramiro, Corinthians was looking to increase its sponsorship revenue and even proposed a kind of "married partnership" involving shared goals between the two clubs . However, from the outset, Flamengo made it clear that it would not accept this type of negotiation.
The signed contract provides for a payment of R$268 million per season, which will be divided between professional football , the club's Olympic sports, and the official channel. This is one of the largest sponsorship deals in Brazilian football.
Although the deal was sealed in mid-August, Betano's name only appeared printed in the center of the red-black uniform last Sunday (31), during the 1-1 draw against Grêmio, at Maracanã, with a big party to celebrate the partnership.
With the new master sponsor, Flamengo returns to the field only on September 14th, against Juventude , in the 23rd round of the Brasileirão. The match takes place at 4 pm (Brasília time), at the Alfredo Jaconi Stadium, in Caxias do Sul.
Mengão made an offer for the coach on three occasions, but other professional obligations, such as with the yellow jersey, prevented the deal.
02 Set 2025 | 07:56 |
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Historically identified with Fluminense, Carlos Alberto Parreira revealed that he was close to managing Flamengo at three points in his career. The statement was made during an interview with the Basticast podcast. According to the coach, he even hosted then-Fluminense president Márcio Braga at his home, but was unable to accept the invitation.
Carlos Alberto Parreira: "On the three occasions Flamengo approached me, I already had a signed contract"
“I had three opportunities, but the three times Flamengo approached me, I already had a signed contract: twice with foreign teams and once with the Brazilian national team ,” said Parreira, who became famous for leading Brazil to the 1994 World Cup title.
The coach also recalled the occasion when he had to personally reject Márcio Braga: "Once Márcio Braga spent the entire afternoon at my house, but I couldn't tell him I'd already signed with the national team because Ricardo Teixeira had ordered no one to know. That was an order for me. I kept stalling, feeling sick, unable to speak," he said.
Now 82 years old, Parreira made history by winning his fourth world championship in 1994. He also won the Copa América (2004) and the Confederations Cup (2005), both with decisive performances by Adriano Imperador.
But his career wasn't all about glory. In 1999, he led Fluminense to the Série C of the Brasileirão , the year in which the Laranjeiras club lifted the third division trophy—a low mark among Rio de Janeiro's biggest clubs.
A great teammate of Parreira, Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo was also by his side in the 1994 fourth title. An icon of Flamengo's history, the "Old Wolf" led Flamengo to notable victories, such as Petkovic's free kick goal in 2001 , which decided the Carioca against Vasco, and the Champions Cup in the same year.
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