Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park's warm-up ...

The Uruguayan national team which in 1950 defeated Brazil 2-1 and obtained the Jules Rimet Cup for the second time A silent tearful crowd of 200.000 seated in the Maracana stadium were unable to ...

In a heated Rio de Janeiro derby, Botafogo's Alexander Barboza lost a tooth after a brawl with Flamengo's Cleiton. The chaos ...

Lionel Messi has a big 2025 ahead with the FIFA Club World Cup and crucial derby games for Argentina against Brazil and ...

In 2017 looters broke into the stadium smashing windows and stealing some items. The Maracanã - which also hosted the 1950 World Cup final - has been used by all of Rio's big four teams, Botafogo ...

The Maracana is one of several football stadiums being used across Brazil as the South American nation battles the virus. The Pacaembu stadium in Sao Paulo has started building a field hospital on ...

A life-size, bronze statue honouring Brazilian football legend Pele is set to be unveiled in June for the reopening of Rio's revamped iconic Maracana Stadium. Well-known Brazilian sculptor Ique is ...

game against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19th November 1969. Historic Brazilian club Santos are in pole position to return to the Série A this season after ...

Fifteen years later, Fluminense have been handed a huge advantage with the final taking place not only in their home city, but in their home stadium too, the Maracana. However, Rio is expected to ...

I’m here with some bad news, and I’m afraid I’m the one who has to break it to you. The American fight against the cultural intrusion of soccer is dead. Soccer has won, ...