Coluna do Fla
·2 April 2026
Landim hits back at Bap over Flamengo stadium and vents: “Lie…”

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·2 April 2026

Flamengo’s stadium remains one of the main topics behind the scenes and among the club’s red-and-black supporters. As such, the issue came up again this Thursday (02), when Rodolfo Landim, the club’s former president, criticized the latest comments by Bap, the current chairman, about the cost of building the project.
— The project was budgeted at R$ 1.8 billion, that was the estimated amount. Then they said they hired two companies to prove it would cost R$ 3 billion. That study was never shown again, simply because the cost was R$ 2 billion. It’s a lie repeated 50 times. The normal amount would be R$ 1.8 billion. And, from what we know, that’s what the new study confirmed, and that’s why it was never shown again, because it would show that that rhetoric was false —, Rodolfo Landim began, in an interview with ‘Charla Podcast’ this Thursday (02).
— This shallow tactic of raising the amount and making it seem like everything would be debt is a way of repeating a lie about something he doesn’t want to do right now. It’s a lie said 100 times so it becomes the truth. The problem is that, during the election, they said they would continue the project. When they got there, they had no interest whatsoever — he concluded.
In February last year, Luiz Eduardo Baptista, known as Bap, said that Flamengo carried out a study to determine the cost of building the new stadium. In that regard, the current president mentioned that the initial figure of R$ 1.9 billion that had been announced was outdated, and that the new estimates were around R$ 3 billion.
— What I can say now is that I have absolutely no doubt that the R$ 1.9 billion figure is not correct, and that the number yet to be confirmed is close to R$ 3 billion, or more. So what we’re going to do is wait for these studies to be completed, and probably in about 60 days we’ll have a more informed position to share with you — said Bap, in February 2025.
Thus, the amount cited by Bap includes spending on several areas. The figure is due to items such as the land, soil testing, decontamination and earthworks, foundations, structures, installations, parking, roofing, the pitch, urban development and landscaping, in addition to commitments to City Hall.
Meanwhile, Flamengo is focused on its upcoming games this season. That is because the red-and-black team takes the field this Thursday (02) against Red Bull Bragantino at 9:30 p.m. (Brasília time), away from home.
In this way, Coluna do Fla brings all the information about the match, which is worth three points for Flamengo in the Brasileirão. In addition, TV Globo, on free-to-air television, and SporTV, on pay TV, will broadcast the match.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.









































