I got a message the other day that said the show in Rio would have even
more people than the show in Italy, that held about 150,000 fans. So, I
did some searching and found these factoids:
From: http://www2.spidernet.net/web/~kasios/guin.html
"Largest in use The Maracana Municipal Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
has a normal capacity of 205,000, of whom 155,000 can be seated. A crowd
of 199,854 was accommodated for the World Cup final between Brazil and
Uruguay on 16 Jul 1950. A dry moat, 10 ft wide and more than 5 ft deep,
separates players from spectators."
and from:
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/non-official/rsssf/rssbest/short96.html
"The stadium, capacity 220,000 (178,000 seated, 42,000 standing) was begun
in 1948 and finally completed in 1965. Though it was immediately adopted
as Brasil's national stadium, it was originally built to replace Vasco
da Gama's grand "Estadio, Sao Januario."
Yet another interesting fact:
"...Rio de Janeiro's 110,000-seat Maracana Stadium and Sao Paulo's
100,000-seat Morumbi Stadium, the two largest soccer stadiums in the
world."
To see what what Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo looks like:
http://www.figer.com.br/morumig.htm
Holy Shit! Can you image 200,000 people at a U2 concert!?!?!?! Or course,
100,000 in Sao Paulo isn't too bad ;-) Does anyone know approx how many
tickets have alredy been sold?
Henry Wagner
henryw@panix.com
http://www.panix.com/~henryw/zootv/