Today I went with Joao and some other friends to the Maracana soccer stadium to see a Fla-Flu game: Flamengo against Fluminense. I turned out to be a Flamengo-Torcedor (fan), so we met all dressed in Black and Red.Best word to describe the event: psicodélico (viu Joao... foi imortalizado aqui!). It was just amazing. Standing in between thousands of totally fanatic fans, shouting songs out into the sky (half of them without REALLY understanding what I was singing), while the same sky pours water down on you in a storm-like rainfall. (But thanks to summer, it doesn't even feel that bad to be totally soaked.)
Anyway... quite an adventure. And one thing I know for sure: Flamengo playing and me in Rio... you'll find me in Maracana ;-)
And now some hard facts:
The Maracana is the biggest stadium in the world and was inaugurated in 1950 to host the FIFA world cup in Brasil. It can host up to 100.000 fans, but there has been a time when they squeezed as much as 200.000 into it. Luckily, today that wasn't the case, so I had enough space to jump and scream and dance every time a goal for 'my' team happened (which was twice... and twice I nearly cryed, because Fluminense scored... in the end, Fla is now out of the game).
1 comment:
aaaaaaaaa que flamengo que nada!!
bléééérrrghh
xD
beijos!
=**
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