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Fluminense Football Club

Fluminense is a Brazilian football team from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, founded on July 21, 1902.

Nominal home stadium is the Laranjeiras, capacity 8,000 but the team plays in the Maracanã[?] which holds 120,000. They play in Colours: Shirt with thin white and thick green and red vertical stripes, white shorts and green and red socks.

Honours

Brazilian Champions 1984.
Twenty-eight state championships.

Some Famous Players

Altair
Bigode
Castilho[?]
Didi
Gerson
Hércules
Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça
Orlando Pingo de Ouro
Pinheiro
Preguinho[?]
Rivelino
Romeu
Telê Santana
Tim[?]
Veludo

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