Brazil’s Flamengo launched a formal request to the UN and opened a request for fans and partners to support their recognition as a symbolic-cultural nation.
The Flamengo of Brazil is the most popular team in his country and therefore, of the greatest in the continent and the world. This Tuesday, the institution made an unusual order to the United Nations Organization (UN) demanding in an institutional video, be recognized as the “First symbolic-cultural nation of the world”
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Nação Na UN!
É isso mesmo: Nação item-Negra want to be reconheated as Primeira Nação Symbolic-Cultural do Mundo.
We are um pov de mais of 45 milhões of weights linked by um mesmo sentiment. We are nossa culture, nosso territorio, Nossa Bandeira, Nosso Jeito de Falar. … pic.twitter.com/x3f1q0xcgq
– Flamengo (@flamengo) SEPTEMBER 9, 2025


He Flamengo Regatta Club, He also reported that he made a formal request to the UN, so it is not just a promotional campaign. In the video, reported by the maximum idol of the institution, Zicoit makes it clear that it seeks to position itself beyond the sports: “We are a town of more than 45 million people united by a common feeling. We have our culture, our territory, our flag, our way of speaking.”
On the other hand, the 1981 Libertadores Copa champion explains what the reasons for the club are to make such a request: “If we were a country, we would have the 36th largest population in the world. We are more than 45 million united people under a single flag”
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How to join the Flamengo campaign
The statement also seeks to involve its partners, fans and even anyone who believes that the request is legitimate. Through the site peticao.flamengo.com.br. You can support the initiative with some data such as name, surname, telephone and DNI. With this proposal, the Carioca club seeks to demonstrate that its influence exceeds the sports and that its collective identity can aspire to unique cultural recognition in the world. The campaign about 7 hours after being launched has 97,000 signatures.
Another of the reasons for the “Fla” is that in addition to being the most popular team in Brazil, he is three times champion of the Copa Libertadores and once world champion, in 1981 by the hand of Zico himself, face of the club’s campaign.
Source: Ambito

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