Estádio Estadual Jornalista Edgar Augusto Proença, Football stadium in Belém, Brazil.
Estádio Estadual Jornalista Edgar Augusto Proença is a football stadium in Belém and offers space for over 50,000 spectators. The complex includes a large pitch, several stand sections, and training facilities for clubs from northern Brazil.
Governor Alacid Nunes ordered a stadium for 120,000 people; architect Alcyr Meira signed the project in 1969, and construction began in 1971. Games were already played in the unfinished ground by 1975, and it opened on 4 March 1978, when a Pará selection beat a Uruguayan youth side 4-0. Renovations completed the stands and added an athletics track between 2000 and 2002, when the stadium was renamed after journalist Edgar Augusto Proença.
The nickname Mangueirão was coined by sports columnist Moacir Calandrini, and the official name honours journalist Edgar Augusto Proença. On 28 September 2011, Brazil beat Argentina 2-0 here in the Superclássico das Américas, the match where the crowd began singing the national anthem unaccompanied, a tradition known as the Capela.
Access is through several entrances around the grounds, with each sector having its own gates. First-time visitors should plan enough time to find the right entrance and navigate the sprawling complex.
The nickname Mangueirão was coined by sports columnist Moacir Calandrini. For years the unfinished ground was called "bandola" because only one side of the bleachers was covered and painted with a marajoara motif. The stadium holds the largest attendance recorded in Latin America for an athletics meet: 42,640 spectators at the GP Caixa de Atletismo.
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