They won't give up: Taça ruling scrapped, São Paulo and Flamengo fight on | OneFootball

At the beginning of this month of July, Flamengo went back to court once again to fight São Paulo over the controversial Taça das Bolinhas, a trophy the Rio club is still complaining to the CBF about.

The Rio de Janeiro club filed an appeal with the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF-3), requesting a stay to prevent the CBF from handing the trophy to Tricolor before the end of the case still pending in court. And it was granted.

Flamengo itself announced at the beginning of the week that the Federal Court of São Paulo had reconsidered the decision that ordered the Taça das Bolinhas to be handed over to the Morumbi side.

So the trophy remains without an owner. After reviewing the case, the 12th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo revoked the order to deliver the trophy and denied Tricolor’s request to the CBF, recognizing that the Rio de Janeiro courts are the ones that must decide its fate, the rival club in the dispute reported.

The Taça das Bolinhas controversy is quite old and has dragged on for more than a decade in the national scene, with some rulings already favorable to São Paulo regarding possession of the trophy, which is still under legal dispute. However, Flamengo is clinging to new appeals to try to prevent that, until the case is definitively closed.

The honor was created by the CBF to pay tribute to the first club to win either three consecutive Brazilian Championship titles or five overall. The confusion arises because the Rio club claims to have achieved the feat in 1987, a year in which Brazil’s top football authority does not recognize Fla’s national title, but Sport’s instead.

Thus, it maintained that São Paulo, by winning its fifth national title in the 2007 Brasileirão, was the rightful holder of the Taça das Bolinhas. Meanwhile, the decision continues to drag on, and the Taça das Bolinhas remains in the possession of the CBF until the courts finally define São Paulo as its legitimate holder.

SEE THE STATEMENT ISSUED BY FLAMENGO:

Clube de Regatas do Flamengo informs that the decision by the Federal Court of São Paulo ordering the delivery of the “Taça das Bolinhas” to São Paulo Futebol Clube was reconsidered this Monday (07/13), following an appeal filed by Flamengo.

Upon reviewing the case, the 12th Federal Civil Court of São Paulo revoked the order to hand over the trophy and denied São Paulo’s request, recognizing that jurisdiction to decide the destination of the Taça belongs to the courts of Rio de Janeiro.

The Taça das Bolinhas therefore remains in the custody of Caixa Econômica Federal, exactly as determined by the Rio court. Flamengo remains confident in the definitive recognition of its rights over the trophy.

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