A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro after 1889 by Tom Winterbottom

Author:Tom Winterbottom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

2014: The “New” Maracanã

The current stadium has impressive new features such as a new roof and big screens. Moreover, it hosted what commentators thought of as a successful World Cup in 2014. As a recently renovated and ostensibly modern stadium, however, there is a definite sense of nostalgia permeating its concrete structure. Its current iteration, recently renovated, already feels old, with wobbly seats, broken elevators, and a huge wait to get in via the security checks and old-style turnstiles (and some new ones). The old—the sweeping concrete bowl, the broken installations—and the new blend together in a stadium that seems perpetually incomplete. Ill-fitting, brand new wood imitation doors punctuate an old, scruffy concrete corridor near the player’s tunnel, before that same old wall comes up against a new-looking wood-panelled wall just near the changing rooms, which have themselves been partially refitted and updated (Fig. 13).

Fig. 13Wobbly seats in the “new” Maracanã

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