Court sentenced Flamengo to play - despite 19 corona cases

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Flamengo competed with youth players and scored

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The Brazilian soccer champion CR Flamengo, who was extremely affected by the corona virus, scored points in his forced appearance in the league.

The club from Rio de Janeiro won 1: 1 at SE Palmeiras after the Federal Labor Court had ordered the match ten minutes before the scheduled kick-off.

Flamengo 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 Corona.

After that, the club had asked the association and the Supreme Sports Court to postpone the top game between the champions of the past two years.

Initially, a labor court in Rio also banned the game, but the federal labor court did not declare this court to be competent and ordered the game.

Flamengo then ran for the most part with players from his U20 team.

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