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Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha

Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is a multi-purpose stadium in Brasília, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 72,788. It was built in 1974. It is named after famed Brazilian footballer Garrincha.

The Mané Garrincha Stadium was demolished in 2010 to give way to a new stadium with a capacity of 72,788 fans and in order to reach the requirements for the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in Brazil. The stadium was renamed in early 2010 to the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha and the construction began in April of the same year.

The reconstruction involves dismantling the lower tier and retaining the upper tier into the new rectangular bowl, and reducing the size of the playing field so that the stadium can be a football-specific stadium.

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  • Part of Speech: proper noun
  • Industry/Domain: Sports
  • Category: Stadiums

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