*Pedro Flamengo Vitorioso*

"FLAMENGO is not just a club, it is a sports institution. Flamengo is a religion, a sect, a creed, with its bible and higher and lower prophets. Flamengo is a love, a devotion, an eternal communion of feelings. For it, many gave up their lives, alienated their freedoms, destroyed their friendships, ruined homes. Flamengo, flamenguism, to be exact, is a cardiopathy. Flamengo gives you fever, meningitis, hepatic cirrhosis, neurosis, the exaltation of life and death. Flamengo is an hallucination.

"There should be a federal law that required that Flamengo played everyday, in every corner of Brazil, and won every time. When Flamengo wins, there is more love in the slums, more sweetness in the homes, more life and vibration in the streets, life itself sings, people's spirits are reinforced, man works more and better, the children get presents. There are kisses in the plazas and gardens, because the soul is in peace, is happy. Flamengo cannot lose, it must not lose. Its defeat frustrates, saddens humiliates and prostates all. The health, the hygiene of the nation demand that Flamengo wins, for the good of all, for the general happiness, for the national well-being."

Judge Eliezer Rosa

FLAMENGO - "THE RED AND BLACK NATION"
36 MILLION PEOPLE AND GROWING...