Flamengo (years 80)
The era Zico
The decade of 80 was the most important time in the history of Flamengo. To win three times the Brazilian Championship, once the American Libertadores Cup and World Championship Interclubes, Flamengo, which had craques the level of Raul, Leandro, Marino, Mozer, Rondinelli, Carpegiani, Junior, Andrade, Adilio, Zico, Nunes, Tita and Lico was considered The Time of the Decade.
Although already possessed the largest crowd of Brazil, the Flemish only gain from the Brazilian championship of the 80. With Zico in the team, the rubro-black Brazilian won his first title in 1980. The following year, raised the American Libertadores Cup in their first participation and then the World Clubs to beat the Liverpool of England, by 3 to 0, in Tokyo. Zico won the award for best player of the decision, crowning the best year in history of the club, which won three titles in just twelve days - the third was the Carioca Championship.
In subsequent years, the Flemish, Zico still continued winning titles. Sagrou up bicampeão Brazil in 1982 and 83. In the same year, Zico has left the club to go play in Udinese (Italy). Two years later, he returned to Brazil. In 1987, he was responsible for a major achievement of the 1987 Brazilian Championship (Copa Union). In a time where young orientava Bebeto, Leonardo, Ailton, Zinho, and had experienced the Leandro, Andrade, Aldair and Renato Gaucho.
In 1988, despite the Flemish still have great Zico and the entire cast of the previous year, was overcome by Vasco da Gama in the Carioca championship, being defeated four consecutive times for the team cruzmaltina of artilheiro Romário and thus allowing the bicampeonato vascaíno. At that time, one of the great difficulties of Flamengo was the constant problems of knee of Zico, who almost always abandonava the fields before the end of the game. After the end of the Carioca championship, several major holders have left the club, as Andrade, Renato Gaucho, Leandro and Edinho (which moved to Fluminense). Not hiring substitutes to time, the Flemish had regular participation in the first round of the competition. It enabled the fifth consecutive victory of the arch-rival Vasco, but had some significant wins (5 to 1 on the Guarani). In the second inning, already are under the command of technical Telê Santana, the team lost several matches and was about to lose their chance of classification.
Until we arrived the day that the Flemish have classified the face Fluminense, in the famous Fla-Flu. The team tricolor zombou the rival team, saying things like "close the coffin of Flamengo." But with a victory through a goal from Bebeto artilheiro, the Flemish began his work towards classification. The Fla-Flu was marked by the debut of the then junior rubro-Marcelinho Carioca black professional football. Since that victory, the Flemish no longer was defeated in the second inning, following victories and empatando. At the last round, the Flemish had two challenges: win the Atletico Mineiro and overcome the Sao Paulo in the classification. Both opponents were direct competitors to one of the places for the second phase. The Flemish had done its part in Maracanã, the mining team to win by 2 to 0, goals from Zinho and former atleticano Sergio Araujo. But the Sao Paulo vencia its game against Missouri by 1 to 0, and conquistava the vacancy. Until that in a player's goal goiano George Potato, the tricolor Paulista gave the tie and also the wave, because Flamengo and Sao Paulo had the same number of points, but Flamengo had the highest number of victories.
In January 1989, began the second phase of the 1988 Brazilian Championship confusing, and Flamengo had the opponent as Grêmio, then the players Paulo Bonamigo and Cuca. The rubro-black estva still under the command of the technical Telê Santana. After empatar to 0 to 0 in the Olympic Stadium, the Rio team was defeated by 1 to 0 in the game back in Maracanã, goal of Cuca, thanks to an error of coarse black player rubro-Delacir (which was removed permanently from the team after this departure). For the Carioca championship the same year, the Flemish made a great first round, the goleando Fluminense, Edinho by 4 to 0 (a goleada a crisis that sank the tricolor Rio and caused the resignation of Edinho due to a fight with a leader even in changing rooms ) Empatando on 1 to 1 with Botafogo (in a controversial game where the player alvinegro Paulinho Criciúma marked the goal of desempate the same moment the final whistle of the referee) and deciding on a invicta the Guanabara Cup in a game on Sunday afternoon against the already Vasco eliminated. The vascaínos were very confident because they won the previous five matches, and wanted to win the sixth and thus make the Seine on the arch-rival. The Vasco still had a majority of blacks remaining algozes rubro-of bicampeonato as Acácio, Geovani, Bismarck, Mazinho, Vivinho, Zé do Carmo, and Cocada couple goleador Sorato. The player Zé do Carmo came to say that "losing for the Flemish would be the end of the world." But it was the day of revenge: With two goals from Bebeto and one of Renato (ex America), and Bismarck for Vasco (3 to 1), the Flemish if vingou of opponents, prevented the vascaína sixth victory and conquered in the party Guanabara Cup, defeating also Botafogo, direct competitor to the title. During the party, the rubro-black crowd screamed the chorus: Ê, Ô, The SENA ACUMULOU!
But in the second inning, after empatar in 3 to 3 with Botafogo in a game virtually won, where Zico opened the marker with a lack of golaço and defender Gonçalves estragou the victory of Flemish to make an own goal and allow the reaction of the opponent, and losing two matches (Itaperuna and Vasco), the rubro-black delivered the Rio Cup to invicto Botafogo, which later became sagraria on the same Carioca champion Flamengo after 20 years of fasting securities. For the Brazilian Championship 1989, the Flemish participation was discreet, but with some significant victories as 2 to 0 (goals of the junior Bujica) on the rival Vasco, which had the former rubro-black Bebeto in its cast. Another major victory happened when Zico made his last official match for the club, a goleada of 5 to 0 on the Fluminense in Juiz de Fora, where the idol opened the score with a beautiful goal from lack (in sum, in the year 1989 the Flemish marked ten goals in Fluminense and did not suffer any. The victory was 4 to 0 and 1 to 0 in the Carioca Championship and 5 to 0 in the Brazilian Championship). In 1990, before a packed Maracanã, Zico would do his departure from the Flemish dismissed.
In Flamengo, Zico was often artilheiro of State Football from Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Football Championship. A great achievement for a player of medium field. The craque was also repeatedly voted the best player in Brazil, America and the world by newspapers and magazines specializing in football.
