Maracanã Stadium

The Maracanã in Rio from above in 2022, its white ring roof wrapped around the pitch and the city pressing in on every side. It opened in June 1950 for the World Cup, and its deciding match that year, Uruguay 2, Brazil 1, still gives the place its legend: a huge crowd went home in silence. Germany beat Argentina 1-0 here in the 2014 final. Today it is the shared home of Flamengo and Fluminense, so a Fla-Flu derby is the fixture to target.