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Fluminense Football Club was founded on July 21, 2021
Fluminense Football Club was founded on July 21, 2021. The first idea was to name Flu as Rio Football Club, but the chosen name ended up being Fluminense. ”Flumen” means “river” in Latin. The first game for the new team was played on October 19, 1902, three months after the club was born. It was the first rout in the history of Fluminense. Score: 8 to 0 for the tricolor. Fluminense has a marked difference in relation to the three rivals of Rio de Janeiro: it was the only one of the big four to be born focused on the practice of football. Therefore, it does not have “Regatas” in its official name.
The first Brazilian goal in a World Cup
The first Brazilian goal in a World Cup was scored by a legendary Fluminense player: João Coelho Netto, Preguinho, in Uruguay, in 1930. At 17 minutes of the second half of Brazil's debut against Yugoslavia, when the selection lost 2-0, he scored the goal that reduced the difference, but did not prevent the defeat. In addition to football, Preguinho also made his name on the club's athletics, basketball, football, hockey, swimming, diving, volleyball and water polo teams.
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The Manoel Schwartz Stadium, also known as Estádio das Laranjeiras
The Manoel Schwartz Stadium, also known as Estádio das Laranjeiras, as it is located in the neighborhood of the same name, in Rio de Janeiro, was the first in Brazil. It was built to host the South American Championship of Selections, current Copa America. In the inaugural game, on May 11, 1919, Brazil thrashed Chile 6-0. Fluminense rented the Laranjeiras stadium in October 1902, three months after its founding. At that time, the tricolors used a donkey named Faísca to mow the grass. To avoid damage in the field, gloves were put on the animal's paws.
Until recently, Fluminense's official mascot was Cartola
Until recently, Fluminense's official mascot was Cartola, created in 1943 by Argentine cartoonist Mollas. The choice had been in allusion to the fans of the Carioca elite who supported the team. As the figure of the top hat gained a pejorative meaning over the years, the Team of Guerreiros, which had adopted this nickname in 2009, decided to change the mascot for the Guerreirinho, a medieval knight chosen by the fans, in 2016.
Fluminense players were nicknamed Powder of Rice in 1914
Fluminense players were nicknamed Powder of Rice in 1914. There was a midfielder called Carlos Alberto, persecuted by Flamengo fans for being mulatto. Carlos Alberto, humiliated, filled his body with powder before a match against Flamengo, but the sweat betrayed him. The dust came out and the crowd couldn't forgive him. Fluminense, already considered one of the best teams in Rio de Janeiro, won 10 x 1 against Corinthian, from England, in a friendly played in 1910. The brilliant football played by the English inspired the creation of the Corinthians.
In the decision of the 1936 Carioca Championship, in Laranjeiras
In the decision of the 1936 Carioca Championship, in Laranjeiras, the aviator Geet Stolberg, a fanatical Flamengo fan, flew over the stadium and released a dead chicken painted with the colors of Fluminense. It didn't work: Fluminense beat Flamengo. Fluminense has a patron saint. The legendary Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça, goalkeeper for Fluminense and first goalkeeper for the Brazilian national team, played with a silk bow around his waist and his boots covered in gauze.
In 1980
In 1980, Fluminense and Vasco played at Maracanã in the final of the Campeonato Carioca. The game went to penalties and the Flu fans decided to ask Pope John Paul II, who had visited Rio de Janeiro months before, to sing the song “Blessings, John of God, your people embrace you”. Flu was champion and the song entered the repertoire of the tricolor fans.
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