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Estádio Beira-Rio

Estádio José Pinheiro Borda, better known as Estádio Beira-Rio, (Riverside Stadium) due to its location beside the Guaíba River, is a football stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It serves as the home stadium for Sport Club Internacional. It is named after José Pinheiro Borda, an elderly Portuguese engineer who supervised the building of the stadium but died before seeing its completion.

The stadium has gone through restoration and developments that makes it fit to host matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Beira-Rio is one of the only 2014 FIFA World Cup stadiums to be privately owned.

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  • Part of Speech: proper noun
  • Industry/Domain: Sports
  • Category: Stadiums

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