And the famous Maracana Stadium is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro and was built for the fourth world cup soccer in 1950. The person in charge of its construction was the engineer Joan Esteban Suárez Florez.
It was in this stadium that the Uruguayan soccer team snatched the title of 1950 world champion, triumph that had been anticipated would be of the cariocas. This meeting was baptized as the maracanazo because it ruined the celebration that all the Brazilians had organized with anticipation and extreme enthusiasm.
It was not the only time that Rio fans left this stadium saddened. On July 02, 2008 the Fluminense (home team) was defeated in the final of the Copa Libertadores by the LDU, Ecuadorian team.
Among other events held in this famous stadium are the opening and closing of the Pan American Games of the year 2007. The Maracana It is oval in shape and has an area of approximately 200 thousand square meters, it has been renovated on some occasions and again it will have reforms for the 2014 championship and also for the 2016 Olympics.
Numerous figures of the brazilian soccer and worldwide have passed through this colossus, among which it is worth highlighting Pele, Garrincha, Tostao, Jair, Rivelinho, Maradona, among others. But Maracaná It has also known how to host artists of the stature of Madonna, Paul Mc Cartney, the great Roberto Carlos that summoned 70 thousand people, AerosmithFrank SinatraTina Turner, among other greats of music.
2014 soccer world cup
It was on October 30, 2007, when in an official ceremony, FIFA designated Brazil as the country that will host the 2014 Soccer World Cup And from that moment, the Rio de Janeiro country began to prepare for the main soccer event in the world, the same one that will begin in a little more than six months.
El World 2014 It will have twelve venues in total, the same as usually happens, will be the main cities of Brazil and the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro has been chosen for the final of the Cup on July 13.
2014 World Cup Final
At the moment we only know the teams qualified for the 2014 World Cup and the way in which the series have been distributed, but, despite all the fans of the beautiful game and having our favorite, we still don't know who will reach the semi-final and the final of the 2014 World CupHowever, if we know that the final will be held on July 13, 2014 in the legendary Maracana Stadium.
The works in the Maracana Stadium began at the beginning of 2010, even, many of us who wanted to visit it in these years have only been able to enter the museum area of the same since the works have been carried out 24 hours a day every day of the year so that it is ready to the World Cup that will begin on June 12.
(For those who visit the city during this sporting event, we recommend reading the Rio de Janeiro Tourist Guide and our article on Tips, documentation and requirements to travel to Brazil).
Regarding tickets, it is known that the country with the highest demand for tickets for the matches to be held at the Maracana has been Brazil with more than two hundred and ten thousand tickets. On the list are countries like the United States with twenty thousand and Colombia with five thousand. Within the second stage of the 2014 World Cup ticket reservation, 284.597 tickets have already been allocated.
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