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Brazil's Fluminense Proposes Home Stadium At Olympic Park

Brasileiro side Fluminense officials are meeting with Rio Mayor Marcello Crivella this week "to hammer out the details of a deal that could finally bring the club its own home stadium at Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca," according to Nelson Belen of the RIO TIMES. With a total of nine venues, the 300-acre Olympic Park in Barra was the largest of the Rio 2016 Games sites. Since the end of the Paralympics in September, the site has been "little-used" but is set to host the 2017 Rock in Rio music festival this September. Fluminense’s latest proposal "involves building a 25,000-seat stadium at Olympic Park using materials recycled from the dismantling of the Future Arena," which was used during the Games for handball, volleyball and goalball. For the Olympic Park deal to go through, however, the team and City Hall would have to "agree to modify the club’s earlier plan from last year, which also involved building a stadium in Barra, but at another location." Neither City Hall nor current Fluminense President Pedro Abad "could be reached for comment on the proposed Fluminense Olympic Park Stadium" (RIO TIMES, 6/22).

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