There's no Brazilian club more honored and mentioned in popular songs than Flamengo. Naturally, Brazil's largest fan base boasts a large number of great composers, and the team is also part of the imagination of musicians who support other teams. Every fan knows the lyrics to the anthem sung in the stands by heart, but there are many other songs that evoke the Most Beloved and are on everyone's lips. The fan member who sends a video of themselves singing or playing any of them can participate in the exclusive promotion and compete for a red-and-black Waldman guitar..

Some of the most memorable musical tributes to Flamengo were written by Jorge Ben Jor. "País Tropical," which first became famous through the voice of fellow Flamengo fan Wilson Simonal and later gained countless versions, features his passion for the club in one of its most memorable lines: "I'm Flamengo and I have a girl named Tereza!"

But Flamengo still appeared again in Ben Jor's work in other famous songs. Fio Maravilha "played a one-two, dribbled past two defenders, took a touch, beat the goalkeeper, and only didn't get the ball in, all because he was humble," and not only scored a great goal but also became an unforgettable figure in Brazilian popular music. And the greatest star in Flamengo's history, Zico, was another to be honored by the Rio native from Tijuca, who as a boy dreamed of being a soccer player wearing the number 10 jersey for Gávea, who asks: "It's a free kick at the edge of the box, guess who's going to take it?"

Zico was also the main character in a composition by Moraes Moreira. Saudades do Galinho (Saudades do Galinho) appeared in 1983, when the star left Flamengo to become an idol for Italian club Udinese. In the song, the Bahian composer, who also wrote Vitorioso Flamengo, wondered what his Sunday afternoons would be like without Zico at Maracanã, because "with every Flamengo goal he felt like a winner." As everyone knows, the eternal number 10 returned a few years later and won another Brazilian title on a Sunday in 1987 at Mário Filho Stadium.

There's much more. In "Boa Noite," Djavan sings: "It's a good thing I'm Flamengo / Even when it's not doing well / Something tells me in red and black / That suffering takes you further / There's no love without fear / Good night!" Wilson Batista, who wrote the unforgettable Samba Rubro-Negro ("Flamengo plays tomorrow and I'm going there / There's going to be another dance at Maracanã..."), wrote at least five other sambas about his team. Other tributes came from fan-musicians of such diverse styles as Wando, Claudinho and Buchecha, Bezerra da Silva, Bebeto, and Luiz Ayrão. Not to mention, of course, the countless versions recorded for the anthem composed by American Lamartine Babo and the samba-enredo of Estácio de Sá, which in 5 celebrated the centennial of the club's founding at Sapucaí Stadium. 

Of course, many of the most memorable musical tributes come in the form of chants from the stands, among the fans. However, even some music stars who dress in other colors in the stands haven't failed to remember Flamengo. True, Vasco fan Aldir Blanc collaborated with Flamengo's João Bosco in "Incompatibility of Geniuses," which complains about a woman who changes the radio station during a Flamengo game, and in "Gol Anulado," in which a Cruzmaltino fan becomes furious upon discovering from a goal shout that the woman he believed shared his passion for football actually had a red and black heart. But even the iconic Tricolor Chico Buarque mentioned his club's biggest rival in a few verses: "She likes tango, dengo, Mengo, Sunday and cosca," in "Jorge Maravilha"; and "Quieta que eu quero ouvir Flamengo e River Plate!", in "Biscate."

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