Four days after beating Palmeiras to win their fourth Copa Libertadores, Flamengo secured the Brazilian title with a 1-0 success against Ceara at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana stadium on Wednesday.

It was a ninth Brazilian crown for the country’s most popular football club, and their third in the last seven seasons.

Samuel Lino, the club’s record signing, scored the only goal of the game against Ceara to maintain Flamengo’s now unassailable five-point lead at the top of Serie A over Palmeiras with just one game to go.

The newly crowned champions squeezed past Palmeiras with a 1-0 win in Saturday’s Copa Libertadores final, which was staged in the Peruvian capital of Lima.

They have now become only the fifth Brazilian side in history to complete the Serie A-Copa Libertadores double,

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