Flamengo demands compensation in a lawsuit challenging the Half-Price Law and seeks support from Bolsonaro.
The club has taken legal action to be compensated for all home games over the last five years. The club is also in conflict with Globo, which decided this Thursday (2) to stop broadcasting the Carioca Championship.
247 - Flamengo is demanding compensation from the Federal Government for lost ticket revenue due to the half-price ticket law in Rio de Janeiro. The club has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government and wants to be reimbursed for all home games played over the last five years.
The Rio de Janeiro club is thus attacking two Rio de Janeiro laws that defend half-price tickets – laws no. 12.933/13 (Half-Price Law) and no. 10.741/03 (Elderly Statute) – which guarantee a 50% discount on game tickets. The club claims that, in this way, the Federal Government is interfering with the profits of private companies.
PM 984
Flamengo has been the subject of discussion in the sports world due to its stance against Globo's monopoly on football broadcasting. In mid-June, the club's board met with Jair Bolsonaro, who published a... provisional measure that removes Globo's exclusivity in broadcasting football matches..
MP 984 makes the "arena rights" exclusive to the home team in sporting events. Therefore, the club playing at home will hold the broadcasting rights for the events. The text favored Flamengo, which did not sign with Globo, and harmed the television network, after the red-and-black team... will broadcast its game against Boavista on Wednesday, the 1st, through its FlaTV channel on YouTube..
The bill, despite harming Globo, ended up being criticized by some who argue that making "arena rights" exclusive to the home team will favor the big teams, while the smaller teams will stop earning money from broadcasting games, as they will have more difficulty selling advertising space.
This Thursday, February 2nd, Globo announced that it will no longer broadcast the championship on its channels. The network stated that it had terminated its contract with the Rio de Janeiro Football Federation (Ferj) and the clubs, but will maintain payments for this season. Therefore, the Vasco x Madureira and Macaé x Fluminense matches, for the final round of the Taça Rio, will not be broadcast by the network.
Football is back.
Flamengo, along with Vasco da Gama, has also been the target of criticism as it was at the forefront of pressuring the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation (Ferj) to resume the Carioca Championship games, despite the number of daily deaths continuing to rise in the state and having teams, such as Volta Redonda, with players who tested positive.
Of the major clubs in Rio de Janeiro, only Botafogo and Fluminense opposed the return of football. Both were pressured to play because, according to the competition regulations, if a club refuses to play, it will forfeit. Furthermore, if a team abandons the competition, it "will be penalized with a fine and relegation to the immediately lower category, division or series in the following year, in the case of Series A and B, or will be prevented from participating in the following year, in the case of Series C associations".
In early June, Fluminense president Mário Bittencourt left the WhatsApp group with the other club presidents and the federation.
The Botafogo board also criticized the return of football. The team's coach, Paulo Autuori, had been suspended for 15 days by the Sports Justice Tribunal of Rio de Janeiro after... to denounce the policies of Ferj and the Flamengo board.The suspension was lifted following an appeal by the club, but Autuori decided not to participate in Botafogo's return match against Cabofriense to make a statement.
At the time, he called Ferj the "federation of the clever ones" and criticized the actions of Rubens Lopes, the federation's president. Autuori had also criticized Flamengo, the main team that played for the return of the Campeonato Carioca. The coach called the president of the Flamengo club a "sycophant" of Ferj.
The team, in the second leg against Cabofriense, protested Against the return of football, the team displayed a banner that read "A good protocol is one that respects lives." That same day, the team also held an event in support of the "Black Lives Matter" movement.