🥇 Copa highlights: Fla, Bota and Portuguesa mock Flu's exit | OneFootball

Brazilian football said goodbye to the 2025 Club World Cup on Tuesday (8), with Fluminense's 2-0 loss to Chelsea in the semifinals.

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Social media, in general, still "respectfully" joked about Tricolor's fall in the tournament.

Click here to see the main reactions on the web.

But, as rivalry is always rivalry, Flamengo and Botafogo, who were eliminated in the round of 16, responded to Fluminense's provocations.

Explained: with the falls of rubro-negros and alvinegros, against Bayern Munich and Palmeiras, respectively, the "admin" of Flu on X (former Twitter) gave that "worn out" question about how the weather was in Rio de Janeiro.

Flamengo was the first to return the joke.

The Rubro-Negro even posted a snippet of a song by their fans that highlights that, in Rio de Janeiro, only Flamengo has a World Cup.

Then Botafogo also decided to return the provocation. Taking advantage of the fact that it's "cold" in Rio de Janeiro, they posted a gif of "Cold" Palmer and even captioned it with the "8", remembering the eight consecutive victories over Fluminense.

Finally, even those who "have nothing to do with it" entered the joke.

Portuguesa posted on their social media "what a pity".

Explained again: in 2013, after the end of the Brasileirão, Lusinha ended up being relegated due to the "Heverton case" - a player who ended up entering the field irregularly, which caused the team to lose points.

Fluminense, who had been relegated "on the field", ended up being indirectly benefited, including with Mário Bittencourt, then the club's lawyer and current president, participating in the trial as "interested". The CBF was the one who made the complaint to the STJD about Heverton's suspension.

The curious thing is that, in parallel to the "Heverton case", André Santos, a Flamengo player, was also lined up irregularly in the same round and with the same type of trial. The Carioca team also ended up losing the same four points, but escaped relegation by finishing in 16th place.

Anyway, Portuguesa fans blame Fluminense for the relegation that year and a "rivalry" was installed between the fans.

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