Bap slams Intercontinental Cup, taunts Leila after Flamengo win | OneFootball

Flamengo debuts in the Intercontinental Cup on December 10

The Flamengo won the Libertadores last Saturday (29), defeating Palmeiras 1-0 and qualifying for the Intercontinental Cup in December. After the match, Bap, the president of the red-black team, criticized the competition and even joked with Leila Pereira, the head of the São Paulo team.

— I think the Intercontinental is absolutely unfair. We will arrive less than 20 hours before the game, and we lose money if we fall in the first game. Look at what happened to Botafogo last year. The other day we were discussing financial Fair Play —, Bap began, right after the game.

— Sporting Fair Play, it's not fair for the Libertadores champion team to arrive to play with less than 24 hours, make a 15-hour trip, with a seven-hour time difference... Today we will enjoy, and on Monday I will decide what we are going to do —, he concluded.

WHEN DOES FLAMENGO PLAY IN THE INTERCONTINENTAL CUP?

After winning the Copa Libertadores title, Flamengo secured a spot in the Intercontinental Cup. Thus, the red-black team debuts in the quarter-finals of the competition on December 10, against Cruz Azul (MEX).

It is worth mentioning that Flamengo plays earlier, on December 7, against Mirassol, in the last round of the Brazilian Championship. Therefore, the red-black team will have little time, as the trip to Qatar, the venue for the quarter-finals of the Intercontinental Cup, is long.

WHAT WAS THE PROVOCATION TO PALMEIRAS AND LEILA PEREIRA?

— On Friday (28) I jokingly told Leila at the Conmebol event that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place (alluding to Palmeiras' title over Flamengo in the 2021 final). She took the floor afterwards and said: “Yes, it does.” I was thinking to myself, she was right. In Lima, it does —, Bap concluded.

Thus, in 2022, Flamengo lost to Palmeiras 2-1, after the game went into extra time, in Montevideo. In this way, the red-black team got back at the Palmeiras team and became four-time champions of the Copa Libertadores.

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