Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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It’s a red flag with the club symbol centered: a pointy shield over a
bicicle wheel proper, the shield with a white border and vertically
partitioned in red and white, charged with a golden old-style foot ball in
the center and with a counter bend, blue, with the club’s initials
("SLB" — standing for Sport Lisboa e Benfica,
that is, Sport Lisbon and Benfica, Benfica being a neighborhood in Lisbon)
in gold on it, all topped by a golden eagle holding a green and red scroll
with the club’s motto in black: "E PLURIBUS UNUM".
Jorge Candeias, 28 Jan 1999
This flag
can be seen at the clubs HQ and stadium in Lisbon and in many other locations
throughout the country. The Benfica flag described by Adolf Durand in
[drn92], with white background and thin red
stripes top and bottom, is not the official flag but one of many often
variations.
António Martins, 26 Jul 1999