In 2017 looters broke into the stadium smashing windows and stealing some items. The Maracanã - which also hosted the 1950 World Cup final - has been used by all of Rio's big four teams, Botafogo ...

A 23-year-old fan of US pop music star Taylor Swift died Friday night of a heart attack amid Rio de Janeiro's historic heat wave ... Argentina at the iconic Maracana Stadium.

Brazil, the historic five-time FIFA World Cup champions, have not won in Lionel Messi's Argentina for 16 years and are yet to ...

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park's warm-up ...

Fifteen years later, Fluminense have been handed a huge advantage with the final taking place not only in their home city, but in their home stadium too, the Maracana. However, Rio is expected to ...