The game between Flamengo and Fluminense is suspended

The Rio de Janeiro Football Federation has canceled the game Flamengo and Fluminense are scheduled to play Saturday for the Guanabara Cup, after a fire that killed ten people at the headquarters of the first club.

"The State Football Federation of Rio de Janeiro regrets the tragedy that occurred at the Flamengo training center and expresses its solidarity with the families," says a tweet sent by the official report of the badociation , adding that "there is no climate for the realization of fla-flu this Saturday", in the stadium of Maracaná.

The match, which will be held on a date to be determined later, corresponds to the semi-finals of the Guanabara Cup and was suspended due to the fire unleashed this morning in the premises of the Flamengo training center, which has at least ten dead and three wounded, two of them seriously.

Among the deceased, there would be players from the lower divisions of the club, who slept in units of the so-called Ninho do Urubu, considered one of America's most modern training centers. Latin. According to official sources, the flames destroyed a house where players of the Flamengo base were sleeping, under 18 years old. The fire crews managed to control the flames and have not yet been able to establish the causes of the fire or have not identified the deceased.

Source: EFE