Good Grief Charlie Brown
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 • Posted by jcb
Alison and Witzy packed themselves a lunch and headed to the stadium for a leisurely day of soccer this past Sunday. Not even an hour later the two cocksure American’s kicked in the apartment door suspiciously blanched. After some initial inquires on my part the story is still sketchy at best. The story includes tales of rioting soccer fans, armed police intervention, several gunshots, and a prescient warning by a friendly Brasilian. “You people don’t belong here. Leave now.” So they did.
One of the world’s largest stadiums, Maracanã was built for the IV World Cup of Football that happened in Rio in 1950. Brazil unfortunately lost to Uruguay that year, but today it’s the only nation in the world to hold 5 titles. Soccer is the national sport in Brazil, and the stadium is often filled to capacity with more than 90,000 people when there is a major match, and the official record is of 183,341 spectators in 1969. This is where Pelé made his 1,000th goal.
Alison. The lone woman in the 90,000 strong crowd.
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Posted by: JDawg at March 24, 2005 07:44 PM
Sadly enough, the biggest crowd ever at Maracana was not for a soccer game. It was for a Billy Graham event. What has this world come to?
Anyone who wants to learn more about soccer in Brazil and the passion that its people have for the game should read Futeboll by Alex Bellos. Great book and available from Amazon.com. You dont need to know anything about soccer to enjoy this book…
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