(Reporter Kim Hyun-ki, Xports News) It is a ‘country of soccer’.
A new 60-meter high soccer stadium with a capacity of 80,000 seats will be built in Brazil. It will also be built in Rio de Janeiro, the city where the Maracanã, known as one of the ‘holy places of soccer,’ is located.
Flamengo, Brazil’s most popular club, announced plans to build such a large stadium and released a bird’s eye view.
According to the Brazilian soccer media ‘Nogomania’ on the 27th (Korean time), Flamengo club decided to build a new large soccer stadium on the site prepared in Gasometro, Rio de Janeiro.
The media said, “Flamengo has unveiled plans for a 60m high stadium, equivalent to a 20-story building,” and “Lands such as Camp Nou (FC Barcelona’s home stadium), Santiago Bernabeu (Real Madrid’s home stadium), and even Flamengo’s historic home stadium, Maracana. “We plan to build it higher than the Mark soccer field,” he said.
Flamengo is one of the most prestigious teams in Brazilian soccer history. Along with Pele, it produced Garrincha, who led Brazil’s first heyday in the 1960s, as well as Socrates and Ronaldinho, and Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior, who recently expressed his dissatisfaction after finishing second in the Ballon d’Or, is also from Flamengo. Rafinha, who is raising his stock price this season as FC Barcelona’s star winger, also has Flamengo as his home team.
The media continued, “Because it will be completed with 80,000 seats, it will have more spectator seats than the Maracana Stadium. The highest seats will be placed at a distance of 190 meters from the stadium at a steep slope of 34% at 45 meters above the stadium.” Plans to install spectator stands at a high and steep slope were also announced.
The club’s plan is that Flamengo’s new stadium will also host NFL games, American professional football.
In Brazil, the first NFL game was held in Sao Paulo this year. Next, to host Flamengo’s new stadium, the locker room will be set up in an extra-large circular shape that can accommodate up to 53 people.
Flamengo’s new stadium will open in November 2029.
Photo = Flamengo club SNS / Yonhap News
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