Taça Rio began full of surprises

Written by Vicente Espineli , 20.02 04h44

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A hard weekend for Botafogo,Flamengo,Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. The biggest clubs have found many difficulties against smaller ones in their first fixtures for Taça Rio. On Saturday, Madureira beated Fluminense (2-1). After the match, Coach Ivo Wortmann was fired by the Tricolor Board. A substitute could sign today, some names are speculated, Nelsinho Bastista and Tite are the favourites.
On Sunday, it was time for new surprises, Botafogo, playing at Maracanã, tied with modest Nova Iguaçu (1-1) Marcos Denner opened the score and Dodô equalized. Flamengo also tied, playing away against Friburguense. Renato scored, taking a penalty on 47 minutes of second half. Forward Luizão had a good performance at his debut, scoring twice, but Friburguense commanded the actions. The situation is very tense after new rumors of disagreements among players Renato and Diego Souza.
Vasco da Gama, celebrated Romário’s match number 500 for the club, but had no clemency from its guest, Portuguesa. In a very difficult match, the final result was (2-2) and finished the tragic weekend for the big ones.


Madureira 2 X 1 Fluminense

Venue: Conselheiro Galvão
Date -Time: 18/02 - 16h
Referee: Gutemberg de Paula Fonseca
Assistants: Manoel do Couto Ferreira Pires and Jorge Luiz Roque
Yellow cards: Gabriel Santos(Flu); Djair(Mad), Muriqui(Mad)
Red Cards: Muriqui(MAD)
Gols: 22'1st Half - Fábio Júnior(Mad); 1'/2nd Half Maicon (penalty taking Mad); 43'/2nd Half Rogério(Flu)

Madureira: Renan; Thiago Boiadeiro, Odvan, Paulo César and Paulo Roberto; Roberto, Djair(André Paulino - 25'/2nd Half), Maicon(Tiago Costa 12'/2nd Half) and Muriqui; Fábio Júnior and André Lima.
Coach: Alfredo Sampaio

Fluminense: Diego; Rissutt(Lenny/ Halftime ), Gabriel Santos, Thiago and Jean; Marcão, Ângelo(Romeu 26'/2ndHalf , Rogério and Petkovic; Pedrinho and Tuta(Cláudio Pitbull/Halftime).
Coach: Ivo Wortmann.


Vasco 2 X 2 Portuguesa

Venue: São Januário
Date-Time: 19/02 - 16h
Referee: Edílson Soares da Silva
Assistants: Jorge Luiz Campos Roxo and Délcio da Silva Brum
Yellow cards: Germano, Marlon Gullit, Lê; Fábio Braz, Wágner Diniz
Goals: 22'/1st half Biúla(penalty taking)(Por); 45'/1st half Ygor(Vas); 30'/2nd half Valdiran(Vas); 39'/2nd half Orlando(Por)


Vasco: Roberto; Wágner Diniz(Ricardinho 28'/2nd half), Fábio Braz, Bebeto and Diego; Ygor, Osmar(Ramon 27'/1st half), Abedi and Morais; Valdiran(Claudemir 35'/2nd half) and Romário.
Coach: Renato Gaúcho

Portuguesa: Braz; Germano, Marlon, Leandro and Alan; Gullit, Otaviano, Serginho( Marcinho 18'/2nd half ) and Lê(Thiago 27'/2nd half); Róbson Biula and Ratinho(Orlando 18'/2nd half).
Coach: Roy

Botafogo X Nova Iguaçu

Venue: Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Date-Time: 19/2/2006 – 18h10min
Referee: Marcelo Venito Pacheco
Assistants: Mário Jorge Marques de Oliveira and Lino de Paula Leite Neto

Yellow cards: Moisés (41/1st half), Augusto (11/2nd half) Mário César (29/2nd half) (Nov) / Tiago Xavier (46/1st half), Scheidt (39/2nd half)
Yellow card: Tiago Xavier (25/2ºT)

Botafogo: Lopes, Neném, Scheidt, Asprilla and Bill; Thiago Xavier, Joilson (Gláuber - 14/2nd half), Lúcio Flávio and Zé Roberto; Reinaldo (Pena - 37/2nd half) and Dodô – Coach: Carlos Roberto

Nova Iguaçu: Lugão, Luiz Fernando, Augusto and Léo; Schneider (André - 40/2nd half), Moisés, Mário César, Zinho and Pedrinho; Deni and Marcos Denner (Evandro - 28/2nd half) – Coach: Toninho Barroso


Friburguense 3 X 3 Flamengo

Venue: Eduardo Guinle, Nova Friburgo
Date-Time: 19/02 - 18h10min
Referee: Wágner Tardelli
Assistants: Ediney Guerreiro Mascarenhas and Antônio Carlos Pimenta dos Reis
Goals: 23'/1st half Jones(Fri); 35'/1st half Luizão(Fla); 17'/2nd half Luizão(Fla); 31';2nd half Gedeil(Fri); 45'/2nd half Jones(Fri); 47'/2nd half Renato(Fla penalty taking)


Friburguense: Jéfferson; Sérgio Gomes, Cadão, Max and Nil; Gedeil, Bidu, Carlos Alberto and Marquinhos; Robinho(Bruno/halftime) and Jones.
Coach: Cleimar Carvalho

Flamengo: Diego; Leonardo Moura, Fernando, Ronaldo Angelim and Juan; Jônatas, Diego Souza, Renato and Fellype Gabriel (Peralta 14'/2nd half ); Ramírez and Luizão.
Coach: Valdir Espinosa

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