Sporting Cathedrals: The Maracana and its myth and magic
Built and rebuilt for Brazil to win the World Cup, the stadium is also linked with calamity
In pictures: Rio’s Olympic venues lie abandoned and in disrepair
Just months after the Olympic Games the Maracana is among the deserted venues
Behold the Maracana, the place that holds the soul of the Brazilian nation
Built for the 1950 World Cup, the great stadium has lost some of its lustre in the intervening years
Uruguay: Brazil’s nemesis in 1950 . . . and in 2014
It was arguably Brazil’s most painful defeat, when in front of over 200,000 fans in the Maracanã in Rio, they lost 2-1 to neighbours Uruguay in the final match of the 1950 World Cup
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