The historic Maracaná stadium will change its name to ‘Pelé’, as approved by the Assembly of Legislative Assembly of the Brazilian Stadium of Rio de Janeiro
The Legislative Assembly of the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro approves a controversy over the rebuilding of the legendary Maracaná stadium with the name of Edson Arantes do Nascimento – Rei Pelis, considered by the country poster as the best footballer of all time.
Although the legislators have been reluctant to take a step back in time for their three world champions, the league has generated an intense controversy over what it said in the wake of the periodical Mario Filho, which currently has the number on stage. Scenario of the 1950 and 2014 World Cup finals.
The cambio of the stadium’s number, now waiting for the sanctioned by the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, has been criticized by Mario Filho’s family, by historians and by some sectors of the press.
The leader of the league, the deputy Izquierdista André Ceciliano alleges that the sports team that hosts the Maracaná stadium, which includes the Maracanazinho gymnasium, the water park Julio Delamare and the athletics track Célio de Barros, mantendra the next name.
Tan solo the football stadium, which albergo also the football final and the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro 2016, will receive the number of Pelé.
“El Rey Pelé is the mayor judging all times. It’s a just homage. Even though he’s not sure if the world will follow the stadium of Maracaná” afirmó the legislator to admit that hardly the mythical scenario will lose the number of the barrier that the alberga.
Ceciliano also criticizes the critics of women considered as proselytizing the use of living numbers to build public spaces.
“The use of numbers of people living in well-to-do public heritage has been a preoccupation of society to ensure that everything is and impedes the privatization of public space. But, in this case, there is a treaty. “Reconciles globally with his legacy in Brazilian football and the performance of important services in our country”, he said.
Among the deputies that firm as co-authors of the project is the ex-footballer Bebeto, champion with Brazil of the 1994 United States World Cup.
The draft law approved by the regional Legislative Council in emergency and symbolic voting is based on the only way to get the votes of each party.
Only the Socialist and Libertarian Party (PSOL) has demonstrated its support for the initiative.
“Mario Filho was a periodist who was not only compromised with democracy but was also very active in the deportation area. I can only imagine the duel of the number”, said the deputy Flávio Serafini, PSOL’s lawmaker.
Mario Filho was the main instigator of the idea of Brazil constructing the mayor’s stadium of the world for the World Cup that the country organized in 1950 and defending that the same thing was done in the Moroccan barrier, close to the center of the city, and not a single barrier in which the government of entities wanted to build.
The periodical was also an important sports chronicler and organizer of national character football tournaments.