| The Estádio da Gávea ("Gávea Stadium", in English), also known as Estádio José Bastos Padilha, is a football stadium, inaugurated on September 4, 1938, in the Lagoa neighborhood, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a maximum capacity of 4,000 spectators, and is the home ground of Flamengo, its owner. Flamengo rarely plays at Estádio da Gávea. The club's most used stadium is Maracanã.
The stadium is named after José Bastos Padilha, Flamengo's president at the time of the stadium construction. He was Flamengo's president from 1933 to 1937. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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