The Most Beloved can win a title on Sunday. Flamengo Imperadores is in the final of the Carioca American Football Championship 2022. The game is against Rio Football Academy this Sunday (29), at 1 pm (GMT), at Centro Esportivo Miécimo da Silva, in Campo Grande.
This is the second match between Emperors and Rio Football Academy. The first duel between the finalists was in April 2018, with a 20-13 victory in overtime. After the victory, Flamengo led the campaign to the state title that year.
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The Emperor won the spot in the final after defeating America Big Riders 48-00 on the 15th. In fact, this is the first match for Rubro-Negro after almost three years of stoppage due to the pandemic. With live broadcast from FlaTV+, the final is the third of the Campeonato Carioca do Flamengo Imperadores.
After all, Rubro-Negro was in all the state football decisions. In 2018, for example, Rubro-Negro won the title by defeating Vasco Almirantes. But the following year, the team took the runner-up.
History of Flamengo Emperors
The American Football Club was founded on January 23, 2008 by a group of friends. At the time, the team was still called Rio de Janeiro Imperadores, being the first grass football team in Rio de Janeiro. The very next year, the Emperor won his first title: the first Touchdown Tournament.
With links to other Emperors in the past, the team’s name is not related to red-black football. In fact, the nickname imperial is a tribute to the bicentennial of the arrival of the Royal Family to Rio de Janeiro (1808-2008). In addition, the team’s training place at that time was Quinta da Boa Vista, that is, the home of the imperial family.
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