November 21, 2022
10:11
Marcela Leiros – Amazon Agency
MANAUS – The “Streets of the World Cup” in the capital of Amazonas are in final preparations for the opening of the world cup, which happens this Sunday, 20, and the mood is of expectation and realization for another year of tradition.
AMAZON AGENCY was in the neighborhoods Alvorada and Vila da Prata this Saturday, 19, where the last banners are being installed and the retouches in the asphalt painting are being finalized. The custom of decorating the streets is passed from parents to children and becomes a legacy for the city.
This year, the Municipal Foundation of Culture, Tourism and Events (Manauscult) enabled five streets to display the games of the Brazilian National Team during the FIFA World Cup 2022, which will take place in Qatar. They are: 24 de Agosto Street, in Morro da Liberdade, in the South; Professora Isaura Barroncas Street and Street 3, in Alvorada, Midwest zone; Capitão Francisco Galvão Street, in São José 1, East zone; and Santa Isabel Street, in Vila da Prata, West zone.
In the Street 3, Alvorada neighborhood, amid the final arrangements for the release of the road to pedestrians, the coordinator of the Technical Commission of Decoration, Everton Vieira, He says that keeping the tradition is to ensure that the memory of those who started the project lives on. He says that the responsibility is a way of honouring his father, Emílio Lopes Vieira, deceased 11 months ago, who was in charge of assembling the street since 1994.
“He was the mentor, the guy with the ideas, the guy who knew everything, the step by step, materials, what he was going to get, the quantity, everything he had in mind”, reports Everton. “I think that if it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have built the street. With the help of friends and colleagues, wanting to honor him, and other people here in the street that left, we managed to make our decorations, highlights here, in Amazonas, and internationally”, celebrates.
Vieira refers to recognition, by the International Federation of Associated Football (Fifa), the decoration of the “Streets of the Cup”, in Manaus. The organization disclosed in social networks, in the last day 13 November, images of the streets decorated with banners.
Love for the World Cup
On Santa Isabel Street, in Vila da Prata, in the West Zone, Rivelino dos Santos Bentes, born in 1969, has a very familiar name to those who know a lot about the “old” players of the Brazilian National Team. This is because it is a tribute to Roberto Rivellino, starting player of the team in the conquest of the three times champion in the 1970 World Cup, in Mexico.
Like Everton Vieira, Rivelino also follows in his father’s footsteps and, despite having almost given up decorating the street this year, his love for the custom spoke louder. He is the one who climbs ladders and scaffolding to tie more than 300 thousand banners on the street, always counting on the help of other residents.
“But we have been doing this for many decades, since 1982”, explains Rivelino. “I do it for love, I like doing it. It is tiring, it requires a lot of time, attention and care, but I like it. And it’s a legacy I want to pass on to my children. Not only for them, but for this whole new generation that is being born”, she adds.
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Expectations
The law student Larissia Brandão, 25, took the eve of the start of the championship to take pictures and visit, for the first time, a street decorated for the World Cup. In Alvorada, gathered with her husband, father-in-law and friends, she said she is confident of winning the sixth-time champion title. “We are very confident that the sixth-time champion title will finally come this year. We came today because we know that in the coming days here will be very crowded”, she said.
Rivelino dos Santos Bentes also hopes that the Brazilian National Team finally brings the country the sixth star on its jersey: “I hope that this year’s World Cup is not a disappointment for us, that we get the sixth-time champion title. That is the goal, to make the effort worthwhile”, he added.
Everton Vieira said that four months of work were involved, with over 100 people involved in the decoration of Rua 3, in Alvorada. He also looks forward, anxiously, to the sixth title.
“We’ve been working there since Thursday, on the (entrance) gate and painting. It’s a tireless job, we stay up nights and nights. The recognition will be after the inauguration with everybody playing and happy, let’s see if Brazil can drag this long-awaited sixth title”, concludes Everton.
This Saturday, 19th, a mass will be held to commemorate the work done on Rua 3, in Alvorada, and to pay tribute to those who have already left. In Santa Isabel, a breakfast will be offered to residents and to those who visit the street this Sunday, 20, from 9 am.
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