Brazil bade "vai com deus!" to their football stadium

Last Sunday, 29th August, Brazilians watched in silence as seven hundred kilograms of explosives imploded the Fonte Nova football stadium.  After the "momento do buuum!," the stadium was gone in 17 seconds.

The stadium was torn down as Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup.  A new one costing $330-million and with a seating capacity of 50,000 will be built in the same site.

The Fonte has been closed since 2007 following the collapsed of a seating section and seven people died.

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The picture above is the front-and-back-pages photo spread of the implosion in the special edition of the magazine Correio.   Clicking the hypelink will give you a view of how the Brazilians bade good-bye to the football arena.

"Vai com deus" is the Portuguese equivalent of a Spanish phrase that many Filipinos use when they bid goodbye to friends and relatives who are going away: "Vaya con Dios!"

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