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Oct 28, 2009 | By: André | Comments (1)

October 28. St. Jude Thaddeus – one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus – feast day. In the Roman Catholic Church he is considered the saint of desperate cases and lost causes; therefore, he is the patron saint of Flamengo. When Flamengo is in need of something, the board goes to the Igreja de São Judas Tadeu (St. Jude Thaddeus Church) and there they pray for those things they want – usually, not to be relegated, a title, or even a blessed new shirt.

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Friday videos (1)

Alright. I’m starting now a section I will call Friday Videos. Every Friday I am going to post (at least I’ll try to) some videos here so you can have a great weekend and I hope it will inspire our players.
This first video is from the match known as the start of our most glorious time. Flamengo had a great team but never took the championship. Zico crossed from a corner kick and Rondinelli headed to the goal, scoring the championship goal and beginning Flamengo’s golden age.


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Nothing to say (1)

Tomorrow I will be on the road heading to my hometown, but I don’t want to leave an old post here and I know you guys from Europe are already asleep. So, in addition to this post I will write other one and schedule it. Well, I don’t know if I can call it writing, but I will embed some videos here.
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Oct 08, 2009 | Read this article...
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Northeastern shame?

As I said, a tie, but not as I was hoping Vitória scored 3 times. Bruno had a not so good presentation and our defensive players were kind of sleepy. But man, even with Adriano out we scored three times, the last goal being at the 90th minute.


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I gotta feeling

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That tonight’s gonna be a good night. Well. Not on a Black Eyed Peas way of good night. I don’t expect a victory, but having in mind that we had a clean sheet for the last 6 matches, I expect another tonight, and even though we are going to face our inglorious brothers who never honored the red and the black, we will play in their stadium. We played against them 50 times, winning 31 matches and losing only 8. But I wouldn’t be so surprised if we win.


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Paying to Adriano to gain with Adriano

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Some old news

Sorry guys I left this blog so much time without any news, but I had some problems (everything is just fine now) and from now on, I'm back. Most people may not even noticed my absence, but we have around 600 visitors monthly and to you guys, I apologize.
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So here I am now and what news do I have? I might say that in the last 3 months nothing really special happened. I mean, we've changed our manager (as usual) after some bad results, but it was necessary. Cuca did not managed the players very well and that way the group got against him. I know, it may sound ridiculous, but things like these happen frequently here in Brazil, especially when we are talking about Flamengo.
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Time for revenge against the Roosters

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Tomorrow we face O Galo (The Rooster) away and revenge is the first thing on my mind. When we played earlier this year we lost 3x2 due to some poor referring decisions.


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