RUBRO-BLACK READING TIME! DISCOVER THE MANDATORY BOOKS THAT EVERY FLAMENGO FAN SHOULD READ

This book had its 1st. edition in 1945, which preceded, by two years, the launch of O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro, also by Mario Filho, published in 1947. The 3rd. The edition of Histórias do Flamengo dates back to 1966, that is, 48 ​​years ago. The beginning of Flamengo or “O Berço”, as Mario titles one of the parts of the work, is meticulously told in these pages.

The details are unimaginable, going through the club’s “childhood”, going from the birth of Fla -Flu to the first Fla-Flu, from República Paz e Amor to Café Rio Branco, and culminating with the humorous description of very curious figures. And, evidently, as the stories progress, there are also cases about Fluminense, Vasco, Botafogo, which are mixed into an episode about Flamengo. In Histórias do Flamengo, well-known characters parade, many of them “sick” Flamengo fans, such as the writer José Lins do Rêgo and the announcer and composer Ary Barroso. In some passages, even Ruy Barbosa, Barão do Rio Branco and Olavo Bilac are mentioned.

The stories multiply and are delicious! As Mario Filho says in the title of one of the chapters, “Things that only happen to Flamengo”.

3- 100 years of ball, race and passion

With the release of “100 years of ball, race and passion”, the red and black fan has in his hands the most complete document ever published about Flamengo football. In this commemorative edition, as red-black writer Ruy Castro says in the fourth cover text, authors Paschoal Ambrósio Filho (also author of the books Pentatri and 6x Mengão), Arturo Vaz and Celso Júnior “go to the documents and get everything straightened out” . In other words, they bring together, in a single work, Flamengo's entire history of victories on pitches around the world.

In the chapters, divided into decades, the reader will be delighted with the meticulous and detailed work carried out by the authors. Nothing escaped and the result is a wealth of information. Furthermore, it is a luxurious E-Book rich in images: there are more than a hundred photos, drawings with reproductions of historic goals and symbols of Brazil's most beloved club. As a bonus, the book also includes a list of the one hundred greatest idols and one hundred greatest games in that first century of glories.

4- 1987: the Definitive History

1987: the Definitive History, by Pablo Duarte Cardoso, brings back in unprecedented detail the biggest controversy in the history of Brazilian football: the 1987 Brazilian Championship, still played today, outside the field, between Clube de Regatas do Flamengo and Sport Club do Recife.< /p>

To explain why the subject continues to arouse passions thirty years later, the author analyzes the political background of the events that led to the rupture between the country's biggest clubs and the CBF, in 1987. He reports, in In particular, the struggle of a generation of politically engaged leaders and opinion makers, who, in tune with Brazil's redemocratization process, sought to free themselves from the “authoritarian rubble” that two dictatorships bequeathed to our football. And it narrates how, over the course of a few months, these leaders put the CBF and the state federations in check, set up the most exciting championship in history — the Copa União — on their own, and then ruined the revolution amid myopia, pettiness, betrayal and the superior trickery of established interests.

Furthermore, the book tells the properly football aspects of the dispute that led to Flamengo's crowning of Zico, Bebeto and Renato as never before. It also rescues what was the dispute over the Yellow Module, ultimately divided between Sport and Guarani, and narrates the events of 1988 — from the refusal of the “crossover” between Flamengo and Internacional, Sport and Guarani, to the election of Ricardo Teixeira, which effectively put an end to that revolution essay.

Finally, the author uses his legal knowledge to definitively explain the contours of the battle that Flamengo and Sport do Recife fought in the courts. And it explains why no sentence will be able to end the discussion, until the flags raised by the big Brazilian clubs in that year 1987 triumph.

5- Flamengo is pure love: 111 chosen chronicles

José Lins do Rego was the first important Brazilian author to write systematically about football. In this book, the novelist dedicates beautiful passages to Zizinho, Ademir, Jair, Heleno, Biguá, among other idols of our fans. Furthermore, it reveals the behind-the-scenes of the clubs, the managers and details of stories lived off the field.

This volume, in addition to rescuing this side always remembered, but little known, of José Lins do Rego, if it is a declaration of love for the football that was played at the time: despite being naive, romantic and true.

6- 1981 – the red and black year

Every fan, regardless of team, keep in your memory and in your heart a year that will go down in history. Whether for an important title or for a squad, this fan daydreams when remembering what he witnessed. For the biggest fans in Brazil, this year is 1981. With each movement of Earth's translation, Flamengo was conquering the planet. Whether with results or with the enchantment that the squad made to its spectators.

Knowing this, Eduardo Monsanto, deeply researched the 365 most glorious of Fla. From the war that was the Copa Libertadores, to the consecration in Japanese lands by beating Liverpool, until then the great champion of Europe. In 1981 – The Red and Black Year, you will hear about remarkable, funny, curious and dramatic stories that involved Zico, Júnior, Adílio, Nunes and co. Anyone who lived through that year will remember how exciting it was. For those who were not born or were very young, you will discover one of the most beautiful and glorious pages in the history of Brazilian football.