Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça

Marcos Carneiro de Mendonça was Brazil's first goalkeeper.
Marcos had featured in 3 games during the pre Seleção era, playing against Argentina (1912), Portugal (1913) and Corinthians (England) 1913. He also appeared in the match with Exeter City in 1914. At the time he was playing for América, winning the Campeonato Carioca in 1913. His first club had been the splendidly named Haddock Lobo.

When Brazil played their first official international (versus Argentina, 20.09.14) the elegant Marcos was again the goalkeeper of choice. By this time he had joined Fluminense. He played in 10 of Brazil's first 24 official matches (and another 5 unofficial games) retiring at the conclusion of the 1922 South American Championship. 

Marcos was a 4 time Campeonato Carioca winner and won the South American Championship with Brazil in 1919 and 1922.
Outside football he was an eminent historian specialising in Brazil in the 18th century, publishing works right up until his death, aged 93, in 1988. 

Medgyessy Jenő

The Danubian influence on the football of South America predates Dori Kruschner (Dori Kürschner) and his work in Brazil. It also predates the Ferencvaros tour that allegedly influenced the style of Argentine football. 
Eugênio Medgyessy arrived in Brazil in 1926 and managed Botafogo, where in true Brazilian style he picked up a nickname-Marineti. Medgyessy later managed  Fluminense (1927-28) and  São Paulo (1932-33) before moving  to Argentina where he had spells with Racing (Club de Avellaneda), San Lorenzo and River Plate. 
As Medgyessy Jenő he had played for Ferencvaros from 1907-1919, making 80 first team appearances. Medgyessy was a League championship winner with Fradi on 4 occasions (1909-10, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13) and a Cup winner in 1913. 
Despite these achievements his personal career was described as unspectacular. He received injuries whilst fighting for the central powers in 1918. Whilst in South America Medgyessy was instrumental in organizing Ferencvarosi's tour of 1929. 

Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio-São Paulo

Brazilian championships were run by city or state. It was not possible to have a national championship. However, in 1910 a competition was introduced in which the reigning champions of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo played each other for a trophy. The 1910 fixture is seen as a forerunner of the later matches, and Botafogo's victory is generally not considered 'official'. In 1911 the  Taça Salutaris was insituted. During the competition's history a succession of trophies were contested.

Taça Salutaris 1911-16
Taça Ioduran 1917-19
Torneio dos Campeões 1920-31
Torneio Rio-São Paulo 1933-

The matches tended to take place in the following season (so that, for example, the 1910 championship was decided in 1911. 1937 was an exception to this rule).

	Rio			São Paulo	Venue
1910	Botafogo	7	2	Palmeiras	Velódromo Paulistano(São Paulo)
1910	Botafogo	2	4	Palmeiras	Rua Voluntários da Pátria (Rio)
		6	1		Rua Voluntários da Pátria (Rio)
		0	2		Parque Antarctica (SP)
1912	Botafogo	0	3	SC Americano	Campo Público de São Cristóvão (Rio)
1913	América	2	3	Paulistano	Velódromo Paulistano
		-	-		Second leg not played
1914	Flamengo	0	1	AA São Bento	Velódromo Paulistano  (São Paulo)
1916	América Walk over	-	-	Paulistano	Campos Salles (Rio)
1917	Fluminense	2	3	Paulistano	General Severiano (Rio)
1918	Fluminense Walk over	-	-	Paulistano	Velódromo Paulistano (SP)
1919	Fluminense	1	4	Paulistano	Laranjeiras (Rio)
1922	América	0	2	Corinthians	N.K (SP)	No decider played
		4	2		Campos Salles (Rio)
1923	Vasco da Gama	0	2	Palestra Italia	N.K (SP)
		1	1		N.K (Rio)
1926	São Cristóvão	0	2	Palestra Italia	Palestra Italia (SP)	Aggregate win
		3	2		Laranjeiras (Rio)
1928	América	2	2	Corinthians	N.K (SP)
		-	-		Second leg not played
1929	Vasco da Gama	2	4	Corinthians	Parque São Jorge(SP)
		2	3		São Januário (Rio)
1930	Botafogo	0	2	Corinthians	Floresta (SP)
		7	1		General Severiano (Rio)
1931	América	1	3	São Paulo	Floresta (SP)
1934	Vasco da Gama	1	1	Palestra Italia	N.K Shared
1935	Botafogo	9	2	Santos	General Severiano (Rio)		Best of 3 decided on goal difference
		1	2		Vila Belmiro (Santos)
		2	2		Vila Belmiro (Santos)
1937	Vasco da Gama	0	0	Palestra Italia	Pacaembu (SP)
		3	1		São Januário (Rio)

Rio de Janeiro	5
São Paulo	10
Shared	1
Not completed	2

Palmeiras 1910

Paulistano 1917

Botafogo 1930

Vasco da Gama 1934

Fla–Flu

Fashionable spectators in 1916

In recognition of their intense rivalry yet common origins the sage and writer Nelson Rodrigues (a devoted Fluminense fan)  described the great Rio rivals as The Brothers Karamazov of Brazilian football. 

Fluminense was founded by Oscar Cox in 1902. 

Alberto Borgerth was the son of a high ranking lawyer who joined Fluminense as a 15 year old. He also enjoyed the other elite sporting pastime of Rio at the time, rowing. He did his rowing with Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (founded in 1885).

In 1911 a group of Fluminense players left their club following a dispute with the club directors. Dure to Borgerth's connections with Clube de Regatas do Flamengo the footballers approached this club and proposed that they be accommodated as a football section. The football section of Flamengo was officially created on December 24th 1911.

The catchy name for the derby, Fla -Flu, was coined by journalist Mario Filho ( a Flamengo fan, but Nelson Rodrigues' brother) in 1933.

Flamengo 1912, Borgerth seated far right.

Fluminense 1912

Date					Stadium
07.07.12	Fluminense	3	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
27.10.12	Flamengo	4	0	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
03.08.13	Flamengo	6	3	Fluminense	G. Severiano
09.11.13	Fluminense	0	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
11.06.14	Fluminense	0	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
26.07.14	Fluminense	2	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
15.11.14	Flamengo	2	1	Fluminense	G. Severiano
09.05.15	Fluminense	0	5	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
22.08.15	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	G.Severiano
13.05.16	Flamengo	4	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
30.07.16	Flamengo	2	2	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
15.08.16	Fluminense	0	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
08.12.16	Fluminense	3	1	Flamengo	G. Severiano
27.05.17	Fluminense	2	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
15.11.17	Flamengo	3	3	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
23.12.17	Flamengo	2	2	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
23.06.18	Flamengo	0	3	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
06.10.18	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	G.Severiano
24.08.19	Flamengo	1	3	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
21.12.19	Fluminense	4	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
23.05.20	Flamengo	2	1	Fluminense	R.Paysandu
19.12.20	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
29.05.21	Fluminense	3	4	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
07.08.21	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
13.05.22	Flamengo	0	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
25.06.22	Fluminense	1	1	Flamengo	G. Severiano
13.05.23	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
14.07.23	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
15.06.24	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
20.09.24	Fluminense	2	4	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
14.06.25	Fluminense	3	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
08.11.25	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
20.06.26	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
19.09.26	Fluminense	0	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
12.06.27	Fluminense	0	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
21.08.27	Flamengo	1	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
27.05.28	Flamengo	1	4	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
23.09.28	Fluminense	2	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
09.06.29	Fluminense	1	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
06.10.29	Flamengo	0	1	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
01.06.30	Flamengo	0	1	Fluminense	R.Paysandu
01.08.30	Fluminense	2	4	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
23.11.30	Fluminense	2	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
27.09.31	Fluminense	2	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
20.12.31	Flamengo	1	0	Fluminense	R. Paysandu
03.07.32	Flamengo	4	0	Fluminense	R.Paysandu
02.10.32	Fluminense	1	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
01.06.33	Fluminense	1	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
10.06.33	Fluminense	1	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
17.09.33	Fluminense	2	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
08.04.34	Fluminense	1	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
10.06.34	Flamengo	2	2	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
26.08.34	Fluminense	2	0	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
23.09.34	Fluminense	0	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
21.10.34	Flamengo	2	1	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
10.02.35	Flamengo	2	1	Fluminense	Campos Sales
23.06.35	Flamengo	0	0	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
21.07.35	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
01.09.35	Flamengo	1	3	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
13.10.35	Flamengo	1	2	Fluminense	Campos Sales
15.11.35	Fluminense	2	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
21.05.36	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
16.08.36	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
13.09.36	Fluminense	1	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
20.09.36	Fluminense	0	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
11.10.36	Flamengo	2	0	Fluminense	Laranjeiras
28.10.36	Fluminense	2	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
22.11.36	Fluminense	1	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
20.12.36	Fluminense	2	2	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
23.12.36	Fluminense	4	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
27.12.36	Fluminense	1	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
27.06.37	Fluminense	4	3	Flamengo	Laranjeiras
27.07.37	Fluminense	4	1	Flamengo	Laranjeiras

73 matches:

Flamengo – W 25 goals 122

Fluminense W 23 goals 115

25 draws.

 Venues- 
Laranjeiras = Estádio Manoel Schwartz popularly known as Estádio das Laranjeiras- home of Fluminense since 1914.
R. Paysandu = Rua Paysandu home of Flamengo from 1915 to 1932.
G. Severiano = Estádio General Severiano- home of Botafogo.

Campos Sales = Estádio da Rua Campos Sales -  home of America Football Club.

During this period the two sides also met four times in the Torneio Início do Rio de Janeiro. I have not included these games as they were not  played over 90 minutes.

Please remember- we only cover the period up to the northern hemisphere's summer of 1937.