Maracanã
Located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Maracanã stadium (official name: Estádio Mário Filho) is one of the biggest football (soccer) stadiums of the world, and it is home of the four biggest football teams of Rio: Flamengo, Botafogo, Vasco da Gama and Fluminense.
These four clubs are part of the twelve biggest Brazilian football clubs.
The stadium, built for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, originally had a capacity of 200,000. However, its capacity was greatly reduced when it was converted to an all-seater in the 1990s; it can currently hold around 70,000 seated and 120,000 with standing room. It is now undergoing renovations that will increase its all-seated capacity to around 80,000.
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Botafogo (football club) | Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas | Brazilian national football team | Clube de Regatas Flamengo | Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama | Fluminense (football club) | Fluminense Football Club | Football World Cup 1950 | List of stadiums | Queen/Band | Queen (band) | Queen (rock band) | Rio De Janeiro | Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | Rio de Janiero | Río de Janeiro | Vasco da Gama (football club)
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