RE: Info on Maracana Stadium in Rio and Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo
Jorge Morgenstern (tiempo@sanofi.com.ar)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:03:10 -0300
>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."
>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?
In fact, the largest paid concert for a single act ever is not U2's Reggio
Emilia, but Paul McCartney's Maracana show in the 1989/90 tour. (184,000). I
don't know if The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge concert in Moscow was paid or
not, but I believe there were more than 200,000 people there.