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Clube de Regatas do Flamengo is a Brazilian multisport club from Rio de Janeiro.
Despite not being the club's official name, Flamengo has become the term used by most to refer not just to the football team, but also the entire sporting association. Other nicknames used by fans include "Fla", "Mengo", and "Mengão", as well descriptions of the club's official colors, rubro-negro, which translates to "the scarlet-blacks" or "the scarlet and black."
Flamengo's football/soccer team -- the most popular in Brazil with 40 million estimated supporters -- placed 9th in FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century.
The club has been sponsored by Petrobrás since 1984, the longest single sponsorship in any country.
History
Flamengo was founded on November 15, 1895 as a rowing club by José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha,, Mário Spindola, Nestor de Barros, Augusto Lopes, José Félix da Cunha Meneses and Felisberto Laport.
The group used to gather at Café Lamas, in the Flamengo (neighborhood next to Largo do Machado, Laranjeiras and Botafogo neighborhoods) neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, and decided to form a rowing team. Rowing was the elite sport in Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century and the youngsters hoped having their own club would make them popular with the young ladies of the city's high society.
They could only afford a used boat named "Pherusa", which had to be completely rebuilt before it could be used in competition. The team debuted on October 6, 1895 when they sailed off the Caju Point, from the Maria Angu beach, heading off to Flamengo beach. However, strong winds turned over the boat and the rowers nearly drowned. They were rescued by a fishing boat named Leal ("Loyal"). Afterwards, as the Pherusa was undergoing repairs, the boat was stolen and never again found. The group then had to save up money to buy a new boat, the "Etoile", renamed "Scyra."
On the night of November 17th, the group, gathered at Nestor de Barros's manor on Flamengo beach, founded the Flamengo Rowing Group ("Grupo de Regatas do Flamengo", in Portuguese) and elected its first board. The name was changed a few weeks later to "Clube de Regatas do Flamengo" ("Flamengo Rowing Club"). The founders also decided that the anniversary of the club foundation should be celebrated on November 15th, so as to coincide with the Day of the Republic, a national holiday.
Flamengo only embraced football when a group of dissatisfied players from Fluminense Football Club broke away from the club following a dispute with the board. The players (Alberto Borghert, Othon de Figueiredo Baena, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, Emmanuel Augusto Nery, Ernesto Amarante, Armando de Almeida, Orlando Sampaio Matos, Gustavo Adolpho de Carvalho, Lawrence Andrews and Arnaldo Machado Guimarães) decided to join Flamengo because Borgeth, who was the team's captain, was also a rower for Flamengo. Admittance of the new members was approved on November 8, 1911. A motion against the club taking part in football tournaments was defeated, and the members assembly officially created the football team on December 24, 1911.
The new team used to train on Russel beach, and gradually gained the support of the locals, who closely watched their practice games. The first official match was played on May 3, 1912 and is, to this day, the most spectacular victory of the club, as the team defeated Mangueira 16 to 2. The first Fla-Flu (which would eventually become one of the most famous football derbies in the world) was also played in that year, on July 7, and was won by Fluminense, by 3-2.
The Golden Age
In 1978 a scarlet-black Golden Age was beginning when Flamengo won the Rio de Janeiro State Championship. The five following years would be years of glory. Stars as Júnior, Carpegiani, Adílio, Cláudio Adão and Tita were led by Zico to become State Champions for three times in a row. The excitement and pride of the achievement pushed Flamengo towards its first Brazilian Championship in 1980. Then, as national champions, the club was qualified to play the South American continental tournament - the Libertadores Cup.
1981 is a landmark year in Flamengo's history. After beating Chilean Cobreloa in three matches, the club became South American Champions. The next goal was clear: the World Club Championship, a single match to be played in Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, Japan, against European Champions' Cup winner Liverpool FC.
Raul, Leandro, Marinho, Mozer, Júnior, Andrade, Adílio, Zico, Tita, Nunes and Lico were the line-up in charge of playing Flamengo's most important match ever on December 13, 1981. Two goals by Nunes, one goal by Adílio, and a brilliant performance by Zico were more than enough to make Flamengo the first Brazilian World Champions club since Pelé's Santos FC, beating Liverpool 3-0, with all goals on the first half.
The next two years would also be great. Another Rio's State Championship in 1981 and two Brazilian Championships - 1982 and 1983 - closed the Golden Age in a fantastic way.
2007 season
On March 9, 2007, Flamengo earned a commemorative date in Rio de Janeiro state's official calendar. On that day, State Governor Sérgio Cabral Filho signed Law 4998, declaring November 17th (the day the club was founded) "the Flamengo day".
In the 2007 Brazilian Football Championship, Flamengo surprised all the other teams at the half of the season winning many games at home, leaving the relegation zone and reaching the second place and then being defeated the last match in Recife (Pernambuco) by Náutico(Brazilian team from Pernambuco), by 1-0. After this match, Flamengo finished the Championship at the third place, leaving from the second worst to the third best.
2008 season
Video of Flamengo's opening game at Estádio do Maracanã *(External Link )
Football
Flamengo are one of the four clubs to have never been relegated or removed from the Brazilian First Division, the others being Cruzeiro, Internacional and Vasco da Gama.
Their biggest rivals are the other three top clubs from Rio de Janeiro: Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco da Gama. Nowadays, Vasco da Gama are considered Flamengo's top rivals, but intensity of football rivalry has changed in Rio over generations: during the 1960s and most of the 1970s, for instance, Flamengo supporters considered Botafogo to be the club's top rival, although the most historical rivalry is with Fluminense, dating from the beginning of football in the club, at 1912.
Titles
International
Friendly tournaments
Napoli Tournament (Italy) : 1981
Ramón de Carranza Cup (Spain): 1979, 1980
Palma de Mallorca Tournament (Spain): 1978
Naranja Trophy (Spain) : 1964, 1986
Prince of Astúrias & Algarve Trophy (Spain):1980
Colombino Trophy (Spain) : 1988
Rio de Janeiro International Summer Tournament :1970, 1972
Juan Perón Trophy (Argentina): 1953
Summer Tournament (Argentina, Uruguay) : 1961
Punta del Este Tournament (Uruguay) : 1981
Lima Tournament (Peru) : 1952
Kirin Cup (Japan): 1988
Hamburg Tournament (Germany): 1989
Sharp Cup (Japan): 1990
SEE Tournament (Japan ): 1994
Marlboro Cup (USA): 1990
Tel Aviv Tournament (Israel) : 1958
Mohammed V Trophy (Morocco) : 1968
Pepsi Cup (Malaysia) : 1990
Kuala Lumpur Tournament (Malaysia): 1994
National
Brazilian National Championship: 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987 (1), 1992
Brazil Cup: 1990 (undefeated), 2006
Brazilian Champions' Cup: 2001
Rio-São Paulo Tournament: 1961
Brazilian World Champions Cup: 1997 (undefeated)
Tournament of the People: 1972
Brasília Tournament :1997
Elmo Serejo Tournament (Federal District Trophy) : 1976
State
Rio State Championship: 30 » : 1914, 1915 (undefeated), 1920 (undefeated), 1921, 1925, 1927, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944,
: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963, 1965, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979 (undefeated), 1979 (special) (2), » : 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 (undefeated), 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008
Taça Guanabara (1st round of State Championship): 18 » : 1970, 1972, 1973 (undefeated), 1978, 1979, 1980 (undefeated), 1981, 1982, 1984,
: 1988, 1989 (undefeated), 1995, 1996 (undefeated), 1999 (undefeated), 2001, 2004, » : 2007, 2008
Taça Rio (2nd round of State Championship): 7 » : 1978, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1996 (undefeated), 2000
Torneio Início of the Carioca Championship: 1920, 1922, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1959
Rio´s Cup: 1991
Youth
Taça São Paulo de Juniores: 1990
Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores: 1986, 2003, 2007
Copa Macaé de Juvenis: 1999, 2006
(1) (main article: Copa União) In 1987, CBF had monetary difficulties in organizing the national football tournament spawned a controversy that persists to this day. In that year, running the risk of not having an national championship, the 13 most traditional football clubs in Brazil joined in the Club of the Thirteen, due to their discontent with Brazilian football's governing body, the CBF, and to form a national championship to that year (a move not unlike the creation of club-administered football leagues all over Europe). CBF agreed with their rules and would legitimate that championship as an Brazilian Championship. Later time, seeing the fame and glory of the new Copa União, CBF created and formed another group, the "Brazil's Cup", reuniting 2 clubs that stayed out of "Copa União" and the other teams of second division. So, two modules appeared: the Copa União (Union Cup), first division of the brazilian soccer and "green module", which was organized by the Club of the 13, and the "yellow module", officially named by "Copa Brasil"(Brazil's cup), organized by the CBF and considered to be the second division. Whith the fear to lose power to the new Club of the Thirteen, the CBF decided that the champions and runner-ups of the two tournaments would face off in an extra round in which each of the four teams would play the other three. The outcome of the tournament would also determine which two clubs would represent the country in the following year's Copa Libertadores de América. The Club of the Thirteen, who organized the Copa União, didn't agree with this crossing, so, Flamengo, the champion, and Internacional, the runner-up, never played that games. Then CBF declared Sport winner of the competition it had organized, to be the national champions and awarded them and Guarani Futebol Clube (the "yellow group" runner-ups) the spots in the Copa Libertadores. However, Flamengo, the other original twelve members of the Club of the Thirteen, the Brazilian Supreme Court of Sports and most of the Brazilian media have never recognized the decision, declaring Flamengo the real champion.
(2) In 1975, the State of Rio de Janeiro was merged with the State of Guanabara, the former Federal District when the city of Rio de Janeiro was the nation's capital. However, it was only in 1979 that the two state football tournaments were finally unified. As a transition, the state's football governing body decided that all the teams would have to play in two tournaments, with slightly different formats. Both tournaments were won by Flamengo.
Players
First-team squad
As of 21 March 2008, according to combined sources on the official website.
(captain)
For more details see: Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season 2008.
For recent transfers, see List of Brazilian football transfers 2008.
Out on loan
Former players
For details on former players, see List of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo players and .
Former coaches
For details on former coaches, see List of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo coaches
Player records
Stadium »
Flamengo's home stadium is nominally the José Bastos Padilha Stadium (also known as Gávea Stadium), which was inaugurated on September 4, 1938 and has a capacity of 8,000 fans. Most games, however, are played in Maracanã Stadium.
Olympic sports
CR Flamengo isn't only about Rowing and Football. The club is active in several Olympic sports, such as:
Artistic gymnastics
Athletics
Basketball
Judo
Swimming
Volleyball
Water polo
Titles
BASKETBALL (MEN)
- International
- South American Championship: 1953, 1961
- National
- Brazilian Championship: 1934, 1949, 1951, 1953
- State
- State Championship (33): 1933 (undefeated), 1934, 1935, 1948, 1949, 1951-1960, 1962, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1984-1986, 1990, 1994-1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
BASKETBALL (WOMEN)
- International
- National
- Brazilian Championship: 1954, 1955, 1964, 1965
- State
- State Championship: 1954, 1964, 1965
ROWING
- International
- Taça Sul-América (South-America Thophy) 1905
- National
- Troféu Brasil (Brazil's National Championship) (10): 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995-1997
- State
- State Championship (42): 1916, 1917, 1920, 1933, 1940-1943, 1963, 1965-1969, 1971-1981, 1983-1997, 2003-2004
- Carioca League: 1935-1937
SWIMMING
- National
- Brazilian Championship (12): 1968, 1980-1987, 1989, 1991, 2002
- José Finkel Trophy (12): 1977, 1980-1987, 1990, 2001, 2002
- State
- State Championship (31): 1928, 1930, 1938-1940, 1968, 1973, 1976, 1979-1998, 2002-2004
VOLLEYBALL (MEN)
- National
- Brazilian Championship: 2003
- Troféu dos Campeões Brasileiros (Brazilian Champion's Trophy) 1952
- Copa Sudeste (Southeast Cup) 1993
- Inter-Regional Championship 1995
- State
- State Championship (17): 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1959-1961, 1977, 1987-1989, 1991-1996, 2005
- State Championship (B Series): 1940, 1953
- Segundos Quadros do RJ (B Series) 1953, 1956, 1959-61
- Local
- Municipal Championship: 1992, 1993, 1996
VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN)
- International
- South American Championship: 1981
- National
- National Championship (8): 1948-1952, 1978, 1980, 2001
- Rio de Janeiro Tournament 1950
- Torneio Início (Inicio Tournament) 1961
- State
- State Championship (11): 1938, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1999, 2000
- State Championship - B Series 1953
- Segundos Quadros do RJ (B Series) 1952, 1956-57, 1960
- Local
- Municipal Championship: 1996
Noted athletes
Atlhetics
Basketball (Men)
- Affonso Évora - (Olympics medalist, Bronze, London 1948)
- Alfredo da Motta - (Olympics medalist, Bronze, London 1948)
- André Luis Fonseca "Ratto"
- Ardelum
- Fernando Brobro
- Fernando Pereira de Freitas - (Olympics medalist, Bronze, Rome 1960)
- Hélio Marques Pereira "Godinho"
- Mário Jorge Hermes
- Pedro Ferrer Cardoso "Pedrinho"
- Oscar Schmidt (The biggest scorer of the sport's history)
- Waldir Boccardo - (Olympics medalist, Bronze, Rome 1960)
- Zé Mário
- Zenny de Azevedo "Algodão" - (Olympics medalist, Bronze, London 1948, Rome 1960)
Artistic Gymnastics
Swimming
Volleyball (Men)
- Bernard
- Bernardinho
- Carlão
- Marcus Vinicius
- Talmo
- Tande
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Volleyball (Women)
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Famous coaches
Basketball (Men)
Volleyball (women)
Rowing
- Guilherme Augusto Silva "Buck"
Presidents
1895-1897 Domingos Marques de Azevedo
1898 Augusto Lopes da Silveira
1899 Júlio Gonçalves de A .Furtado
1900 Antonio Ferreira Vianna Filho (resigned)
1900 Jacintho Pinto de L. Júnior
1901 Fidelcino da Silva Leitão
1902 Virgílio Leite de Oliveira e Silva
1903 Arthur John Lawrence Gibbons
1904 Mario Espínola (resigned)
1905 José Agostinho Pereira da Cunha
1905 Manuel Alves de Cruz Rios
1906 Francis Hamilton Wálter
1907-1911 Virgílio Leite de Oliveira e Silva
1912 Edmundo de Azurém Furtado
1913 Virgílio Leite de Oliveira e Silva (resigned)
1913 José Pimenta de Melo Filho
1914 Edmundo de Azurém Furtado
1915 Virgílio Leite de Oliveira e Silva (resigned)
1915 Edmundo de Azurém Furtado
1916 Raul Ferreira Serpa
1917 Carlos Leclerc Castelo Branco
1918-1920 Alberto Burle Figueiredo
1921 Faustino Esposel
1922 Alberto Burle Figueiredo
1923-1924 Júlio Benedito Otoni (resigned)
1924-1927 Faustino Esposel (resigned)
1927 Alberto Borghert
1927 Nillor Rollin Pinheiro
1928-1929 Osvaldo dos Santos Jacinto (resigned)
1929 Carlos Eduardo Façanha Mamede
1930 Alfredo Dolabella Portela (resigned)
1930 Manuel Joaquim de Almeida (resigned)
1931 Carlos Eduardo Façanha Mamede (resigned)
1931 Rubens de Campos Farrula
1931 José de Oliveira Santos
1932 Arthur Lobo da Silva
1933 José de Oliveira Santos
1933 Pascoal Segreto Sobrinho (resigned)
1933-1938 José Bastos Padilha (resigned)
1938 Raul Dias Gonçalves
1939-1942 Gustavo Adolfo de Carvalho
1943-1944 Dario de Melo Pinto
1945-1946 Marino Machado de Oliveira (resigned)
1946 Hilton Gonçalves dos Santos
1947-1948 Orsini de Araujo Coriolano
1949-1950 Dario de Mello Pinto
1951-1955 Gilberto Ferreira Cardoso (dead by an heart attack after the last shoot what gave Flamengo Basketball Championship)
1955 Antenor Coelho (temporary)
1956-1957 José Alves Morais
1958-1959 Hilton Gonçalves dos Santos
1960 George da Silva Fernandes (resigned)
1961 Oswaldo Gudolle Aranha
1962-1965 Fadel Fadel
1966-1968 Luiz Roberto Veiga Brito
1969-1970 André Gustavo Richer
1971 Luiz Roberto Veiga Brito
1972-1973 André Gustavo Richer
1974-1976 Hélio Maurício Rodrigues
1977-1980 Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga
1981-1983 Antônio Augusto Dunshee de Abranches (resigned)
1983 Eduardo Fernando de M. Motta
1984-1986 George Helal
1987-1988 Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga
1989-1990 Gilberto Cardoso Filho
1991-1992 Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga
1993-1994 Luiz Augusto Veloso
1995-1998 Kléber Leite
1999-2000 Edmundo dos Santos Silva
2001-2002 Edmundo dos Santos Silva (impeached)
2002 Gilberto Cardoso Filho (temporary)
2002-2003 Helio Paulo Ferraz
2004-2006 Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga
2007-2009 Marcio Baroukel de Souza Braga
Organized Flamengo's supporters' groups
Usually, in Brazil, each team has their own "torcidas organizadas" (organized team's supporters groups, like for example the Hooligans in England). Flamengo, like any other Brazilian team have their group of organized supporters, which are the Torcida Jovem-Fla, the Charanga, the Flamanguaça, the Dragões from Raça Rubro Negra, the Urubuzada and the Camisa 12 or 12th Player. The largest firm, however, is the Raça Rubro-Negra, who claims having over 60.000 members.
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