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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...