Manaus: la Coupe du monde, un stade et puis après?

Construire un stade dans la célèbre forêt amazonienne à des centaines de kilomètres des autres stades et des concentrations de population. Un stade de 300 millions de dollars pour quatre parties de la Coupe du monde... Ça vaut le coup à long terme? L'équipe américaine jouera à Manaus et le Washington Post s'intéresse au dossier du stade.

 “We have this new stadium and it’s beautiful,” da Silva said. “But after three or four games, it’ll be useless. People will still need schools, still need hospitals.”

 The complaints are similar to those voiced in other host cities, where citizens have watched the government pour billions of dollars into hosting 64 soccer matches. Despite the best efforts of protesters opposed to the spending, people throughout Brazil accepted they couldn’t stop the tournament. Now that it’s underway, many in Manaus realize it’s a chance to showcase their unique city — its 117-year-old opera house, its bouncy boi bumba and forro music, and the grilled jaraqui and tambaqui fishes, pulled right out of the Amazon waters.

“The Cup is here, the money is spent,” da Silva said. “We should use it for good. Here, people think we only have forest and monkeys and tribes. No, there’s a lot of things to do.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/dcunited/manaus-celebrates-its-world-cup-games-in-the-amazon-rain-forest-even-as-some-wonder-why/2014/06/17/a877d520-f645-11e3-afdf-f7ffea8c744a_story.html?hpid=z1