Manaus football team ready to host home matches in the Arena Amazonia, new structure realized for the upcoming competition
by Emanuele Bonini
A forth division football club is going to play in a new generation stadium. Nacional Futebol Clube, the most important club in Manaus, will play home matches in the Arena Amazonia, structure realized for the upcoming FIFA world cup. The new stadium cost nearly $290 million, about $70 million more than originally expected, and it has been built up on the former site of the Vivaldão stadium, where Nacional played until 2010. Vivaldão was owned by the government of Amazonas state, and local authorities decided to dismantle the old structure to create a new one because of the world cup tournament in Brazil. When in 2009 Manaus was chosen as one of the host cities of World Cup 2014 works started. So, at the end of the competition the eldest football club in Manaus will have a new house, one of the best in Brazil and maybe in the world making Nacional a low ranked team with well-advanced stadium. It's something really particular in a soccer world where just richest club can have the possibility to have new generation stadiums.
Nacional Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Nacional, is a traditional Brazilian football club from Manaus. Funded in 1913, the team won for forty times the Campeonato Amazonense, the national championship of Amazonas state. Nacional last appearance in Campionato Brasileiro Série A, the maximum compotition in Brazil (the federal championship), was in 1985. Since then a long decline started, bringing the team in forth division. People such as Toninho Cerezo and Francisco Lima, both well known in Europe, have played in Nacional.
A forth division football club is going to play in a new generation stadium. Nacional Futebol Clube, the most important club in Manaus, will play home matches in the Arena Amazonia, structure realized for the upcoming FIFA world cup. The new stadium cost nearly $290 million, about $70 million more than originally expected, and it has been built up on the former site of the Vivaldão stadium, where Nacional played until 2010. Vivaldão was owned by the government of Amazonas state, and local authorities decided to dismantle the old structure to create a new one because of the world cup tournament in Brazil. When in 2009 Manaus was chosen as one of the host cities of World Cup 2014 works started. So, at the end of the competition the eldest football club in Manaus will have a new house, one of the best in Brazil and maybe in the world making Nacional a low ranked team with well-advanced stadium. It's something really particular in a soccer world where just richest club can have the possibility to have new generation stadiums.
Nacional Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Nacional, is a traditional Brazilian football club from Manaus. Funded in 1913, the team won for forty times the Campeonato Amazonense, the national championship of Amazonas state. Nacional last appearance in Campionato Brasileiro Série A, the maximum compotition in Brazil (the federal championship), was in 1985. Since then a long decline started, bringing the team in forth division. People such as Toninho Cerezo and Francisco Lima, both well known in Europe, have played in Nacional.
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