He opened the stadium with a great goal after receiving a heel pass from the Hulk
The party was overshadowed by the referee’s decision to provisionally suspend the match
Olympic champion Paulinho made history this Sunday by scoring two goals in the opening match of Arena MRVthe stadium of the Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro, which allowed the Belo Horizonte team to beat Santos 2-0 for the twenty-first round of the Brazilian Championship.
Paulo Henrique Sampaio Filhothe 23-year-old winger who returned to Brazil this year after five seasons at German side Bayer Leverkusen, he was the big star of the game in which Mineiro, one of the great clubs in Brazil, finally inaugurated its own stadium.
Paulinho, figure of the Brazilian team that won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, opened the stadium with a great goal in the first half of the match after receiving a backheel pass from the Hulk and he completed Mineiro’s party in the second half with a header.
Despite the historic day, the victory and the fact that the fans of the Belo Horizonte team took over their new home, the party was overshadowed by the referee’s decision to provisionally suspend the match due to the bad condition of the grass in the new stadium.
Those responsible for the field had to enter to make some mends in one of the goals.
The two goals allowed Paulinho to complete seven in the League and rank seventh among scorers and Mineiro move up to eighth position in the standings, with 30 points but 21 units behind leader Botafogo.
The MRV built in California, a neighborhood close to Contagem, one of the main municipalities in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, will allow Atlético stop paying for the rent of the Mineirao World Cup stadiumuntil now his fortress.
The stadium cost 1,080 million reais (about 220.4 million dollars) and has capacity for 44,892 spectators.
The inauguration of the stadium completed the party started by Mineiro on Fridaywhen the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) recognized him as the 1937 Brazilian champion, with which he can now display three League titles in his showcases (1937, 1971 and 2021).