Taça das Bolinhas: Flamengo win legal case against São Paulo | OneFootball

Flamengo and São Paulo have been battling over the Little Balls Trophy since 2007

Flamengo secured a win over São Paulo in the dispute for the Little Balls Trophy. At a meeting of the club’s Deliberative Council held this Monday (13), Mengão president Luiz Eduardo Baptista, Bap, announced the outcome in favor of the Rubro-Negro.

The court granted Flamengo’s request. Last week, the club asked for a new injunction to prevent São Paulo from receiving the trophy. The request was filed with the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region. The information was first reported by Coluna do Fla through journalist Pedro Paulo Catonho.

SO WHAT ARGUMENT DID FLAMENGO USE?

Flamengo stated that it would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and Caixa Econômica Federal went ahead with the handover before the case reached a final judgment. The Most Beloved also recalled an earlier ruling by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice that recognized the risk.

The appeal challenges a Federal Court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit filed by São Paulo. According to Flamengo, the decision prevented the production of evidence and violated the principles of adversarial proceedings and full defense. Therefore, no decision has been made so far.

SO, WHAT IS THE LITTLE BALLS TROPHY?

The trophy was created by the CBF and Caixa to honor the first club to win either three consecutive Brazilian Championship titles or five overall titles in alternating years. Flamengo was the club that achieved this by winning the 1987 Championship, its fifth Brazilian title. However, because of the issues involving 1987 and Sport, and with the CBF being an active party in the matter at the time, the trophy was not awarded that year. The issue has been in litigation since 2007, when São Paulo won its fifth title and the CBF began to understand that the trophy belonged to the club from São Paulo.

AFTER ALL, WHAT IS THE AUTHOR’S OPINION?

— The first five-time Brazilian champion is Flamengo, without a shadow of a doubt. São Paulo should make a noble gesture and step away from the dispute. After all, the São Paulo team was one of the leaders of the movement to hold the 1987 Brazilian Championship, won by the Rubro-Negro. In other words, it makes no sense for Tricolor to now devalue its own product. On the field, with the ball rolling, and in the championship everyone saw, Fla won it with Bebeto’s goal against Internacional. And of course, in 1992, the fifth title came — said Pedro Paulo Catonho of Coluna do Fla.

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