Unusual: this Brazilian club 🇧🇷 asks to be recognised as a nation by the UN

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·9. September 2025

Unusual: this Brazilian club 🇧🇷 asks to be recognised as a nation by the UN

This morning in Brazil, Flamengo decided to publish a special statement that surprised the football world.

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Through Zico, a legend of Brazil and the red-and-black club, Flamengo announced that it would ask the UN to recognize them as the first symbolic and cultural nation.

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We are more than 45 million united by a common feeling, with our own culture, territory, flag, way of speaking... The Nação Rubro-Negra wants to be recognized as the world's first ever Symbolic-Cultural Nation! ❤️🖤 Support our cause and sign the petition at
– Dienstag, 9. September 2025

According to surveys, Flamengo is the club with the most fans in the world, with 45 million supporters. They can now sign a petition to help their beloved club be recognized as a nation.

Soon the same thing with OM or PSG?