http://flamengo.theoffside.com News about Flamengo Brazilan football team Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who better then FIFA to expect something great from the greatest? I just read this article after it was translated from the FIFA website and published in a Brazilian blog that writes texts about Flamengo and here I come with the original stuff. Saint Jude’s Mengão renaissance Jude the Apostle is the ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/flamengo-team-news/who-better-then-fifa.html http://flamengo.theoffside.com/video/a-message-from-fans-to-players.html Sometimes I have the feeling that I am not making my point here. Of course; English is not my mother language and despite having studied it for years I know I’ll never be as good as you guys are, even if I study English for the rest of my life. ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/brazilian-championship/can-you-fell-it.html And we are back (Flamengo and I)! Last time I wrote here was our day, but St. Jude Thaddeus seemed to be in a bad mood and Flamengo lost the match that night. But after 11 unbeaten matches, you will have to agree with me that it was very possible ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/brazilian-championship/two-points-and-four-matches-from-glory.html 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 ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/flamengo-team-news/happy-flamengo-supporters-day.html Nelson Rodrigues was a brazilian dramatist – also a journalist and writer. He was born on August 23, 1912 in Recife. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1916 and there lived under the influence of his journalist father, working since he was 14, covering the police beat for his ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/brazilian-championship/red-and-black-power.html 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 ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/history/friday-videos-1.html 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 ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/flamengo-team-news/nothing-to-say-1.html 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. Zé Roberto, once ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/brazilian-championship/northeastern-shame.html 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 ... http://flamengo.theoffside.com/fans/i-gotta-feeling.html