Brazilian soccer club Flamengo marks one year since a fire killed 10 teenage academy players. The club’s president has repeatedly called the fire “the worst tragedy” in the team's 124-year history.
A mural features the faces of the young soccer players who died one year ago in a fire at the Flamengo club training center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. The fire killed 10 academy players and injured three others, all aged between 14 and 16 years-old at the time.
Saturday is one year since the fire killed 10 of Flamengo’s academy players, all between 14 and 16 years old. It was “the worst tragedy” in the team’s 124-year history, club president Rodolfo Landim has repeatedly said since. She and other parents were emotionally destroyed by the club’s lack of empathy, she said. Some didn’t even receive a phone call from top executives.
“Flamengo is an immeasurable force. We feel like ants fighting giants,” Mariju Maciel, a lawyer representing the family of one of the victims, said Friday during a hearing at Rio’s state legislature. On Thursday, police investigating the Flamengo fire sent their conclusions -- in 13 volumes -- to the state prosecutors’ office for review. Prosecutors will evaluate whether to bring charges for homicide or manslaughter, local media reported.
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