I gotta feeling

By: André | October 7th, 2009

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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.

As I might’ve already said, the city of Rio de Janeiro has a little more than 6 million people, and the State of Rio de Janeiro has around 16 million. So, Flamengo’s supporters are most located out of Rio. Part of these supporters lives northeast and there they have traditional teams (although having no titles) such as Vitória, Sport, Bahia (the only one with a National League title) and their fans hate the fact that Flamengo has more supporters there than they have.

The picture bellow is from the last year’s match against Vitória. There is a completely full part of the stadium and other that is not so full of people. You have one chance to guess on which part of the stadium our fans are. There is a white banner (poster, flag, band, and don’t know how you call it) that says “VERGONHA DO NORDESTE”, something like “Northeastern Shame”.

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That happens not only when we play against Vitória. Also happens when we go to Recife, play against Sport, and this season, when we went to Goiânia to match Goiás, their manager said that he hate those people that was born there and support teams from Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo.

Vitória’s fans already said that they will have a new banner o tonight’s match. Some say it will be more aggressive, some say it won’t attack our supporters so directely, but the thing is that Flamengo, as the biggest Brazilian team has to protect its fans and sometimes support them.