Maracană Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Maracană stadium (official name: Estádio Mário Filho) is one of the biggest football 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.