Estádio Beira-Rio
football stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Estádio José Pinheiro Borda, better known as Estádio Beira-Rio (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [esˈtadʒi.u ˈbejɾɐ ˈʁi.u]; "Riverside Stadium"), Gigante da Beira-Rio or simply Beira-Rio, due to its location beside the Guaíba River, is a football stadium in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It serves as the home stadium for Sport Club Internacional, replacing their previous stadium, the Estádio dos Eucaliptos. It is named after José Pinheiro Borda (1897–1965), an elderly Portuguese engineer who supervised the building of the stadium but died before seeing its completion.
Estádio Beira-Rio was one of the 12 venues used for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, hosting five of the matches in the tournament.
General information
Grass: TifGrand
Box offices: 4, with 68 booths
Toilets: 81
Capacity 50,128 (7,500 VIP seats)
Executive suites 125 (70 suites + 55 skyboxes)
Video screens 2 (100 m2 (1,100 sq ft) each)
Parking 5,500
Record Attendance 106,554 (Rio Grande do Sul All-Stars 3–3 Brazil national football team, on June 17, 1972)
History
Construction
On September 12, 1956, Ephraim Pinheiro Cabral—a former president of Sport Club Internacional (or simply 'Internacional' for short) from 1951 to 1952—proposed a project in the Porto Alegre City Council to donate an eight-hectare plot of land to the Clube do Povo for the construction of a new stadium. The only complication was that the land was situated within the Rio Guaíba. Hence, if the proposal were to be approved, filling the area would be necessary before commencing construction.
The landfill started to become a reality in late 1957 with the arrival of the 'Ster' dredger. Nevertheless, there were times when the construction lagged behind. At the time, many skeptics joked that he was actually buying a 'Floating Seat', with these critiques being depicted in newspaper cartoons.
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