Come see Maracanã, the Temple of Soccer.

Today I will tell you about the legendary Maracana stadium.

The Jornalista Mário Filho stadium was inaugurated on June 24, 1950. By Miguel Feldman E it was restored between 2010 and 2013 to host the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The name of 1960, Mário Filho, is named after the journalist of Jornal dos Sports. The stadium hosted six World Cups in South America, 12 Club World Cups, 1 American Games, Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016, One Confederations Cup, Two World Cups (1950 and 2014) and many other events, from musical shows to charity events.

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The stadium has always been the scene of the classics among the best teams in Rio, including Flamengo Botafogo Vasco and Fluminense. The biggest stars of these teams and other Brazilian teams were always present on stage.

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The stadium has undergone modifications and its audience capacity has changed over time. At the beginning Until recently, it was one of the stadiums where we are most in the world. The maximum capacity was about 200,000 people, practically the population of an entire average city within a stadium.

For the 2014 World Cup, FIFA made demands and the stadium was substantially modified to reduce its capacity, for security reasons, among others. Today’s capacity is 80 thousand people.

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The stadium was famous for the general call, which was the closest part of the camp and where people paid to stand. It was a lot of people stuck vibrating for their team.

One of the most memorable and memorable moments of Maracanã was called Maracanazzo, in the 1950 World Cup. After all, it was between Uruguay and Brazil in the internship, and everyone trusted the Brazilian team, more than 173,000 people paid the entrance to see the game.

The public represented at that time about 10% of the population of Rio de Janeiro, Imagine alone. but unfortunately for Brazilians, Uruguay won by a goal of difference leaving everyone astonished and the stage in complete and deafening silence.

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The goal scorer was the Uruguayan Alcides Dias, who scored the second goal of Uruguay closing the score from 2 to 1. They say that only three people managed to make the Maracana shut up, Frank Sinatra when he came to sing in Brazil, the Pope and The Uruguayan player.

We can also mention another historical moment of the stage in which Pelé reached the goal of 1000 goals by hitting a penalty against the Vasco da Gama team. at that time Pelé played for the Santos team. When scoring the goal, journalists and the public invaded the field interrupting the game. Very excited, Pele said he would save young children.

A moment of consecration of the athlete, of great emotion and victory in the sport.

Another memorable event in the history of Maracana was the wake of Garrincha in 1983. Garrincha was called the Joy of the People, as he made a real show that everyone wanted to see with his bewildering and often even humiliating haggling his opponent. It was a separate show. Many consider Garrincha a kind of soccer soul, an athlete who embodies the sport and turns the dribble into pure poetry.