Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos -Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas - The World Stadium Tour

Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos is a multi-purpose stadium located in the neighbourhood of Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It is used mostly for football matches and athletics and is the home stadium of the football club Botafogo.
The stadium is known by a number of names.
The nickname Engenhão refers to the location of the stadium.
The stadium was named after former FIFA president and International Olympic Committee member João Havelange
Between 2015 and 2017 the Rio municipality allowed Botafogo to refer to the stadium as Estádio Nilton Santos.
The name honors Nílton Santos, whom spent his whole career with Botafogo and is regarded as one of the greatest defenders in the history of the game and a member of the World Team of the 20th Century.
In February 2017, the city of Rio de Janeiro officially renamed the stadium Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos.
The stadium cost R$380 million (US$192 million) to build, which was six times the stadium's original construction budget of R$60,000,000
The Mayor's office estimated in 2003 that the total construction cost would be of R$60 million (US$30 million) the actual cost was thus 533% higher than early estimates.
The stadium opened on 30 June 2007.
The first match held was a Campeonato Brasileiro Série A game between Botafogo and Fluminense. 40,000 tickets were available for the match and were exchanged for donations of powdered milk.
In all, 43,810 people were at the stadium to watch the inaugurating match, where Botafogo beat Fluminense 2–1.
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, commonly known as Botafogo, is a Brazilian sports club based in the bairro (neighborhood) of Botafogo, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Although they compete in a number of different sports, Botafogo is mostly known for its association football team.
They have won the Brazilian championship two times, in 1968 and 1995.
In addition, the club has some of Brazilian football's most notable records, like most unbeaten matches: 52 games between 1977 and 1978, the most unbeaten matches in the Brazilian Championship: 42, also between 1977 and 1978, and the most players assigned to the Brazil national team for World Cup.
The club holds the record for the greatest victory ever recorded in Brazilian football: 24–0 against Sport Club Mangueira in 1909.
Its biggest rivals are the other most important Rio clubs: Fluminense, Flamengo, and Vasco da Gama.
The derby with Fluminense is known as the "Clássico Vovô" (Grandfather Derby) because it is the oldest derby in the whole country. Both teams faced each other for the first time in 1905.
The match with Vasco is known as the "Friendship Derby" because the supporters of both club have been friends historically. It is the only derby in the city that tends to be nonviolent.
The derby against Flamengo, "The Rivalry Derby", is the biggest one for the club, and one of the more important in Brazil.
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