Maracanã Stadium: Symbol of sport, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil.

By completing 70 years of existence, the Maracanã stadium resurrects from the past in the present day as a symbol of football and sports in general for having settled in the memory of Brazilians and having world recognition. In fact, football made Maracanã a mythical place since its origins as well as its circular format, able to welcome large audiences made it a meeting place, creating a community relationship and inclusive with the city that houses it, Rio de Janeiro .
Thus, agreeing with the French historian Paul Veyne, narrating the totality of the facts in the historical field would be a task of the most arduous, since a path must be chosen, and this can not go through every place. However, none of these paths is the only one or true and not much less reflects in full history. Therefore, talking about Maracanã is a great challenge, for its history is confused with the Ethos Sports and Social of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil.
In this sense, being originally a giant architectural work planned in 1950 to receive 150,000 assistants, the stadium and its annexes turned into a monument, and then progressively projected as a symbol of his city in resemblance to Christ the Redeemer and With the sugar bread. Under these conditions, it is not surprising that football fans and the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro have passed to interpret Maracanã as their home and a place of encounter and friendships. There is then a reinforcement to Maracanã mythology with cultural and social meanings other than sports, its ancient founder sense of 70 years.
This scope of three meanings allows the maracanã between the monumental spaces identified by historians - especially of French origin - by the nexus of "memory place". This expression deals with references that identify demonstrations occurred in places that become typical and popular recognition and community.
Therefore, the "memory places" can have an original representation but assume over time a larger meanings. Examples of this transformation generally cited are the Eiffel Tower (France) and the city of Olympia (Greece). That is, in the first case a tower of tribute to the 19th century technology has passed the symbol of the city of Paris and in the second, a religious site of ancient Greece today is a meeting point of all the world's sportsmen.
In the face of these remembers, it is fond of the 70 years of the Maracanã stadium by giving him finally the proper credits that have been defined in inclusion in both sports, and in culture or society.
Veyne (1998) that explains that an event has only felt within a series, the number of series is undefined, they do not follow a geometric pattern in which logic serves to definitively clarify what happened. The idea of ​​history is an inaccessible limit, it is subjective and reflects the projection of our values ​​in the answers to the questions we decide to do well. Describing the totality of the facts in the historical field would be a task of the most difficult, since a path must be chosen, and the same can not go through everywhere. However, none of these paths is the only one or true and not much less reflects in full history. The story is in the set of information at the crossings of possible itineraries and especially in the research objectives.