At Brazil’s traditional Flamengo club, 19 players fail due to the coronavirus. Nevertheless, the team ends up with dozens of youth players. Brazilian football
champion CR Flamengo, severely affected by the coronavirus, scored points in his forced appearance in the league.
The Rio de Janeiro club won 1:1 at SE Palmeiras after the Federal Labour Court ordered the meeting to be held only ten minutes before the scheduled kick-off.
Flamengo had returned from the Libertadores Cup trip from Ecuador last Wednesday with 19 infected players and another 22 people from the delegation who had also tested positive for COVID-19.
After that, the club had asked the Federation and the Supreme Sports Court to postpone the top game between the champions of the past two years. At
first, a labour court in Rio had also forbidden the game, but the Federal Labour Court did not declare this court competent and ordered the game.
Flamengo then played for the most part with players from his U20 team.