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We will attempt to place the 1950 World Cup in the context of Brazilian urbanization, framing the material interventions (creation and renovation of stadiums) and the choice of location of the host cities in the context of urban Brazil at the time. Our study question is: How were our stadiums in 1950 and how did the World Cup of that year affect it, against the backdrop of the country’s urban landscape at that time. We will start by presenting the pre-existing picture in our football spatiality, i.e., what our stadiums looked like when Brazil decided to organize the tournament. This retrospective will allow a clearer dimensioning of the World Cup's impact on the Brazilian stadiums It will be presented in two moments: the formation of our first generation of stadiums and, then, the popularization process of football in Brazil, which, starting in the 1930s, required the creation of what we understand as a second generation of stadiums. Finally, in the third part, we will identify the interventions that the 1950 World Cup promoted in our stadiums to argue that this event did little to effectively change the ongoing process of renovation of these structures.
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Since Baron Haussmann built, in the Bois de Bologne, the majestic Hipodromme de Auteuil, conferring glamour to the turf (traditional popular spectacle), it was established the correlation between such object and the Belle Époque, spreading internationally this model, so that the physical presence of an imposing hippodrome became an instrument of urban land valuation, tending to be located in elite neighborhoods. On this subject, see Mascarenhas (1999).
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Teams with black, white, and mixed-race players.
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In 1948, faced with uncertainties regarding the construction of Maracanã, a private group led by Fausto Matarazzo announced its intention to build the Estádio Nacional Sociedade Anônima (Ensa), in the suburb of Irajá, with capacity for one hundred thousand people, a project harshly criticized by Jornal dos Sports, which accused it of being in disagreement with the fundamental principles of the national sports policy.
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Popular name for the match of greatest rivalry in southern Brazil, with opponents Grêmio and Internacional, the two largest teams in the city of Porto Alegre.
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The first time that a city in the northern half of the state (with the obvious exception of the capital) placed a club in the Gaucho Championship final was in 1942, through E.C. Floriano, from Novo Hamburgo. A well-documented account of the history of the Gaucho Football Championship can be found in Dienstmann (1987).
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Project of our authorship: “The global and the local in the spectacle city: Territory, culture and citizenship in the context of the 2014 World Cup.” Approved by CNPq, Research Productivity Scholarship, 2014–2017.
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Mascarenhas, G. (2021). World Cups’ Geography: Urban Brazil in 1950. In: Giglio, S.S., Proni, M.W. (eds) Football and Social Sciences in Brazil. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84686-2_19
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