Estádio Raimundo Sampaio, more commonly known as Independência (Portuguese: Independence), is a football stadium located in the Horto neighborhood of 👄 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
It was built in 1950 for the FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil.
Initially its capacity was 👄 30,000 people, but after the reconstruction between 2010 and 2012, the capacity is approximately 23,000 people.
[1] It belonged to the 👄 defunct Sete de Setembro Futebol Clube, which is why the stadium is called Independence (the name of the team, September 👄 7, is Brazil's Independence Day).
The stadium is currently property of América Futebol Clube, but has been leased to the Minas 👄 Gerais state government for 20 years, as a counterpart to the injection of public resources to demolish the old stadium 👄 and build the new one.