Many people say that politics and football are incompatible. I do not agree. They not only mix, but are also internal. In a globalized professional world surrounded by interests that move billions a year, those who don’t know how to be politicians are ultimately left behind. And Flamengo, right or wrong, is a great example of this in Brazil. I am explaining.

With ruined finances and football with moths, Rubro Negro began to change with the arrival of President Eduardo Bandeira de Mello in 2013. He organized the house, got rid of expenses and took the risk of putting together average teams over several seasons. to achieve the financial goal you wanted then.

The flag was smart. He saw, before they could avoid it, that Flamengo had a knife and cheese in his hands: an absurd share split caused by the severance of Clube dos 13, the strongest brand and the largest crowd in the country. With so much more money coming in than leaving, all departments are professional all you have to do is sit down, wait and play a game. Play with the pieces on the board.

Several years have passed. Alliances were made. Five seasons later, Flamengo continued to pursue politics under a different leadership. In 2018, he addressed President-elect Jair Bolsonar. Even knowing all the radicalism, knowing that fans will be divided in the face of the country’s crystalline polarization. But I knew it was worth it. It is not a matter of values; it was politics.

Together with the country’s major powers, he supported the adoption of Interim Action 984, later known as the Deputy Principal. With power over his own broadcasts, Rubro-Negro bought a fight with Globo – Bolsonaro’s No. 1 rival – and became the center of a war between the country’s largest television company and the Rio de Janeiro Football Federation. Deep down, the club knew how it would end.

Annoyed Globo unilaterally broke the contract with the federation and clubs. In doing so, Fla took two birds with one stone: he overthrew the largest source of profit for competitors and took a monopoly on Globo, gaining the freedom to sell his own transmission packages in bankrupt Carioca. At the tip of a pencil, the Gavea club was the only one to mitigate the losses; in the neighborhood of Botafogo, Fluminense and Vasco were tormented by not showing the TV company’s money on their financial statements.

Flamengo was not limited to strengthening himself; through the coldness demanded by politics, he was preoccupied with weakening his opponents. If Rubro-Negro is the national favorite, then today there are no strikes in the State – until reaching the final of the competition with the reserve and juniors. Unfortunately for the rivals, “another level” is more justified than ever.

Everyone was stunned by the current scenario. Except for Flamengo. Flamengo not only already knew how they planned, but helped get most of the work done. The plan is ingenious in every way – and within the legal framework. Because Flamengo had ice in his blood, Marcos Braz, to mix football and politics.

The reconstruction took time – nothing gets built overnight – and Eduardo was killed. But today he knows that he is one of the main developers of the title car, which became Flamengo. At the end of this persistent pandemic, reuniting with its fans in the stands of Maracanã has everything to cement the pact with glory once and for all.

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