Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Parte IV [R]

To be honest, his performance last night was not on the same level as the past two. However, he still managed to be decisive -- pass on our only goal, other creative passes for missed chances and even held up the ball brilliantly towards the end of the game.

Craque!

This team may end up being better than the 2009 team. I'm not sure if we are going to win the title, but I sure hope we make it to the Libertadores next year. This team is starting to show signs of being special and Alex Silva hasn't even debuted yet. Let's hope Corinthians starts dropping points.

 

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IVO,

Did he celebrate Vasco's Copa do Brasil win seeing he celebrates triumphs from other rival Carioca sides?

 

We had a nice little 4 page debate on some thread around here about cheering for rivals' successes. I think it was caused because he was hoping Fluminense would win the Libertadores when they made the finals vs LDU.

 

We still have to cheer for Atlético-PR today..

 

Last two games were awful IMO. We needed those 3 points badly in Beira-Rio after the fiasco the game before. There's no excuse blowing a lead to a 10 man side and Deivid put the cherry on top with that miss.

I can only hope we have awoken after this past week and prepare ourselves for a bounce back game vs a Vasco side that has been getting better during the year.

 

Yes, 2-4 weeks.

 

What's the current situation with Claudio Maldonado? Is he still inured?

 

Great, thanks for the info.

 

No one was happy about it; However, one of his reasons for coming to Flamengo was the visibility we provide, so that players can get a chance of playing on the National team. One of his goals upon arriving at Flamengo was to get called up again and make the final squad for 2014.

In our 2009 title run, we got screwed over twice with players going down defending their National team in useless friendlies -- Maldonado with Chile and Kleberson (when he was in good form) vs Estonia with Brazil.

 

To be fair the friendlies weren't completely useless. Maldonado got injured against Slovakia which was a WC team at the time. Right before that Chile was supposed to play powerhouse Germany, but that game was canceled because of a suicide.

Maldonado was hardly ever called up during the qualifiers, so this was his chance to make it into the final team that went to the 2010 WC. Unfortunately his injury was severe.