2023 FIFA Club World Championship: Flamengo vs. Al Hilal

Overview

2023 FIFA Club World Championship Flamengo vs. Al Hilal was the semi-final match to win the 2023 FIFA Club World Championship, which became one of the trending topics on February 2023 due to the Brazilian team Flamengo's overconfidence that it would win the game. The game ended with the Saudi Arabia team Al Hilal winning with a score of 3-2, leading to a series of memes over the Brazilian team's defeat.

Background

On February 7th, 2023, the semi-final match between the Brazilian team Flamengo^[1] and the Saudi Arabia team Al Hilal^[2] started with a goal in the first four minutes of the game. The match continued with both sides showing their best moves and the game ended with Al Hilal's victory^[3] with a 3-2 final score.

Developments

On October 29th, 2022, the Brazilian team Flamengo won the final match of the Libertadores Championship^[6] with a 1-0 score against the Brazilian team Athletico Paranaense. To celebrate, the players and Flamengo's board held a party in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, with some fans calling out the European team saying "Real Madrid, you can wait, your time will come." The video was then brought back on social media after Flamengo's defeat on February 7th, 2023. The Instagram^[7] pages @sportscenterbr and @eespnbrasil shared a compilation video about the Brazilian team's provocations, garnering 123,317 likes and 13,900 comments in one day.

Online Reactions

Brazilian fans of rival teams did not forgive Flamengo's defeat and made several memes on social media about the team's defeat to the Saudis. One of the earliest examples was a video posted by Twitter^[4] user @_RobertSilveira shared a video of a man driving through the streets with a speaker calling out Flamengo's fans. The video, seen below, received 8,800 views and 313 likes in one day.

Flamenguista, guista, guista…Kd vc??? pic.twitter.com/UkHCsVEZIr

— Roberto Silveira (Big Beto) (@_RobertSilveira) February 7, 2023

The rival team's fan page on Twitter,^[5] @sobrerinthians, posted a video mocking Flamengo's defeat. The post, uploaded on February 7th, 2023, received 120,100 views and 5,200 likes in one day (seen below).

FLAMENGO PERDEU, FODA SE QUEM TA TRISTE EU TO FELIZ GRAÇAS AO AL HILAL pic.twitter.com/oFeoGCQV1j

— Sobre Corinthians (@sobrerinthians) February 7, 2023

Vitor Pereira Memes

After Flamengo's elimination in the FIFA Club World Championship, fans of the rival team, Corinthians, used social media to provoke coach Vítor Pereira, who recently left the club to take over the Rio de Janeiro team (Flamengo). The coach claimed he was motivated by family issues with his mother-in-law, who lived in Portugal, in leaving Corinthians. However, days later, Vítor Pereira agreed to work for Flamengo and moved to Rio de Janeiro. TikTok^[8] user @sanguecorinthiano2 posted a video on February 7th, 2023, claiming that the coach is going back to Portugal to help his mother-in-law's health problem. The video garnered 56,900 plays and 2,800 likes in one day (seen below).

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