It's final: there are no more tickets on sale for the match between Flamengo and Goiás, Sunday at 19:30 p.m., at Maracanã Stadium. The match, part of the 36th round of this year's Brazilian Championship, will be sold out and is expected to break the Brazilian football season attendance record. After just over two hours of sales, the ticket offices have closed.

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All tickets for the red-and-black fans had already been sold with just three days of ticket sales last Friday. However, the Goiás team waived its allotment of tickets, and the 3.515 tickets corresponding to this quota went on sale yesterday morning at the Maracanã.

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Ticket sales proceeded without major disturbances. However, the Military Police had to use pepper spray at times to disperse some people who insisted on approaching the ticket booths. The Military Police restrained the scalpers. One of them was even arrested with ten tickets and taken to the 18th Precinct. Because there were so many red-and-black fans for so few tickets, several of them returned home empty-handed. Despite their frustration, the fans seemed to have accepted the situation and avoided causing a disturbance.

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Flamengo is in Rio – The possibility of moving the red-and-black team's training to the interior of São Paulo in the weeks following the match against Goiás has been officially ruled out. Coach Andrade asked the directors not to take the group to Itu, and football manager Isaias Tinoco agreed.