Flamengo add Brazilian title days after Copa Libertadores win

Flamengo adhd Brazil’s Serie A rubric to Copa Libertadores crown and person PSG successful show successful Intercontinental Cup successful Qatar.

Four days aft beating Palmeiras to triumph their 4th Copa Libertadores, Flamengo secured the Brazilian rubric with a 1-0 occurrence against Ceara astatine Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana stadium connected Wednesday.

It was a ninth Brazilian crown for the country’s astir fashionable shot club, and their 3rd successful the past 7 seasons.

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Samuel Lino, the club’s grounds signing, scored the lone extremity of the crippled against Ceara to support Flamengo’s present unassailable five-point pb astatine the apical of Serie A implicit Palmeiras with conscionable 1 crippled to go.

The recently crowned champions squeezed past Palmeiras with a 1-0 win successful Saturday’s Copa Libertadores final, which was staged successful the Peruvian superior of Lima.

They person present go lone the 5th Brazilian broadside successful past to implicit the Serie A-Copa Libertadores double, having besides done truthful successful 2019.

“In a fewer years (the players) volition realise what they person achieved,” said Flamengo’s manager Filipe Luis. “They are eternal!”

Pele’s Santos did the treble successful 1962 and 1963, and Botafogo managed it past year.

Meanwhile, Neymar scored a hat-trick for Santos successful their 3-0 triumph implicit Juventude to boost the Sao Paulo-based club’s hopes of avoiding relegation.

Santos are present 2 points wide of the bottommost 4 relegation spots with 1 lucifer to go, against third-placed Cruzeiro, who could yet pip Palmeiras to 2nd place.

The play is not implicit for Flamengo, who tin inactive unafraid a treble by winning the Intercontinental Cup.

The Carioca nine volition play Mexicans Cruz Azul, the CONCACAF champions, connected Wednesday of adjacent week earlier the victor of that lucifer takes connected Egypt’s Pyramids, champions of Africa, for a spot successful the last against European champions Paris Saint-Germain successful Doha connected December 17.