Estádio Mineirão (meaning Big Mineiro Stadium), officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium) established in
1965 after Governor
Magalhães Pinto, is the largest
football stadium in the state of
Minas Gerais,
Brazil.On
February 25,
1960, the government of the Union and the Federal University of Minas Gerais gave Minas Gerais land in the neighborhood of
Pampulha,
Belo Horizonte, for the construction of the stadium.The Mineirão was planned by Eduardo Mendes Guimarães Júnior and Caspar Garreto, both architects. The structural project was undertaken by engineer Arthur Eugênio Jermann. The construction workmanship was directed by engineer Gil Cesar Moreira de Abreu. From
1963 to the date of its inauguration on
September 5,
1965, approximately five thousand people were involved in the construction.
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