Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira
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 Curitiba , Brazil
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| Coordinates | 25 ° 25 '16 " S , 49 ° 15' 34.2" W |
| owner | Coritiba FC |
| opening | 1932 |
| Renovations | 2005 |
| surface | race |
| capacity | 40,130 |
| playing area | 109 × 72 |
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The Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira - usually just called Couto Pereira for short , and known as Estádio Belfort Duarte until 1977 - is a football stadium in Curitiba , the capital of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná . Inaugurated in 1932, the stadium has a capacity of 40,130, making it the largest in the state, and is owned by Coritiba FC , one of the city's three major football clubs.
history
The Couto Pereira in was built between 1927 and 1932 and opened on November 20th of last year. For the first game in the new stadium, the future user, the club Coritiba FC , and America FC from Rio de Janeiro met for a friendly game that ended with 4: 2 for Coritiba FC. Since that day, Coritiba FC's Couto Pereira has been used as a venue for home games. The club became Brazilian soccer champions in 1985 and also won the Paraná national championship over thirty times , where the main rivals are the Athletico Paranaense and Paraná Clube , both also from Curitiba.
The stadium offers space for 34,872 spectators these days. Before various modernizations, the stadium's capacity was much larger. The record setting for a soccer game was achieved when on May 15, 1983 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro from Rio de Janeiro drew 65,943 spectators at a game by Athletico Paranaense. A mass by Pope John Paul II on August 5, 1980 even attracted around 70,000 people to the stadium named after Major Antônio Couto Pereira, who was president of Curitiba FC with interruptions from 1926 to 1933. It was originally named after Belfort Duarte (1883–1918), one of the great Brazilian football pioneers. In 1977 it was renamed after Couto Pereira, on whose initiative the stadium construction declined.
Web links
- Coritiba FC website
- Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira é a casa do Coritiba , Paraná-Online, October 11, 2009
- Pictures on fussballtempel.net