Following a fire at their training ground which left 10 people dead and three more injured on Friday, Flamengo chief executive Reinaldo Belotti said the club is working closely with authorities ‘to clarify what happened’.

The blaze ripped through sleeping quarters at the Ninho do Urubu complex in western Rio de Janeiro.

With questions being raised over licensing, Belotti told journalists on Saturday: “We are not talking about a ‘puxadinho’ (illegal building), we are talking about a proper training ground.

“I just wanted to remind everybody that that training ground (Ninho do Urubu) was used by several professional Flamengo teams, also well-known players like Ronaldinho, Vagner Love, and others.”