Overview

• The club says it submitted a formal request to the United Nations alongside a public campaign seeking recognition.
• An institutional video narrated by icon Zico presents Flamengo’s 45 million supporters as a people with shared symbols, language and culture.
• Fans are directed to sign at peticao.flamengo.com.br, and reports noted roughly 97,000 signatures about seven hours after launch.
• Coverage highlights that the UN has never recognized a nation without physical territory, and no response from the organization had been reported.
• Reports cite studies estimating Flamengo represents about 21% of Brazilian football fans, a scale the club invokes to justify the initiative.