Milton de Souza Corrêa Stadium, Football stadium in Macapá, Brazil.
Milton de Souza Corrêa Stadium is a football arena in Macapá with a grass pitch measuring 345 by 223 feet (105 by 68 meters) and a modern roof structure over the main grandstand. The facility has a straightforward layout with rows of seating on one side of the playing field.
The facility opened on October 17, 1990, with a match between Independente and Trem, during which Mirandinha scored the inaugural goal in the northern hemisphere. Four years later, the arena received its current name to honor a local sports administrator.
The venue has carried the name of a local sports administrator since 1994 and is shared by several clubs from the region. On match days, spectators from different neighborhoods across the city gather and fill the covered grandstand.
The stadium stands in the Marco Zero neighbourhood, named for the Equator, and the midfield line is aligned with the nearby Marco Zero Monument. It is owned by the Amapá state government and shared by Esporte Clube Macapá, Oratório, Trem, Santos (AP) and São Paulo (AP). Since 2015 the grounds have included an athletics track with jumping and throwing areas.
The nickname Zerão and the claim that each team defends a hemisphere rest on a surveying error: the Brazilian Geodetic System placed the equator at the midfield line, but in WGS84 the true line runs about 50 metres north, near the southern end of the pitch. The first goal, scored by Miranda on 17 October 1990, was marked with a plaque in 1995.
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