Stadium
Neo Química Arena
Fan-financed stadium whose towering debt was settled only by selling its own name to a drugmaker.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the stadium in São Paulo opens on November 27, 2013, when a crane swinging the last piece of roofing into place buckled and crashed into the stands, killing two workers just months before Brazil was due to open the World Cup here. It steps back to Corinthians club president Andres Sanchez, who pushed the financing through against decades of unfulfilled promises from earlier presidents, and to the builder he hired, whose name would soon become shorthand for Brazil's biggest corruption scandal. Investigators later traced bribes through the very contracts that raised the roof above your head.
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