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Estadio Sao Januario

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Estádio de Sao Januario.
Estádio de Sao Januario. Bernardo1989 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vista aérea do estádio de São Januário
Vista aérea do estádio de São Januário Diego Baravelli · CC BY-SA 4.0

The fans paid for it. When Vasco da Gama set about building on the hill in São Cristóvão, the money came from supporters of the club, and the work went to the Danish contractor Christiani & Nielsen on a design by the Portuguese architect Ricardo Severo. What went up was, at the time, the largest ground in the Americas.

The ground has taken in more than club football since. The final round of the 1949 South American Championship was played here, and Brazil took the title, beating Paraguay 7–0 on the way. Vasco have used it to build leads they then had to defend elsewhere: the first leg of the 1998 Copa Libertadores final against Barcelona S.C., the first leg of the 2000 Copa Mercosur final against Palmeiras, both won 2–0, and the first leg of the 2011 Copa do Brasil final against Coritiba, won 1–0.

The record crowd, 40,209, came on 19 February 1978 for a Série A match against Londrina — and Vasco lost it 0–2. Nothing like that figure is possible now. Standing areas have gone and safety rules have cut the capacity below the number the ground opened with. Renovations in 2006 and 2012 were modest. During the 2014 World Cup the pitch was used as a training base by Germany, Argentina and Uruguay, but no match was played on it. A replacement stadium, several times the present size, has been proposed for around 2028.