Journalist Zé Reinaldo , who writes about social and cultural resistance movements, criticized on his blog: The FIFA bureaucrats, in their Holly ignorance, think names like Mané Garrincha, Maracanã, Mineirão, Itaquerão, and others created by the populace are difficult to understand for those who do not speak the vernacular and don't know the rabble's jargon....Since the early 20th century, when football started being played here with exotic British words, Brazilians was able to "localize" vocabularies and without formalities understood that Foot-ball is "Futebol", goleiro is "goalkeeper", defensor recuado is "beque" , meio-campista is "center half”, escanteio is "corner", penalidade máxima is "penalty", and so on. Journalist Xico Sá recalled in his column in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo that Garrincha was the hero of the first two world titles won by the Brazilian National Team, an icon who made the country overcome the mongrel complex on the pitch.
Если бы стадион назывался Пеле (футболист, называемый многими лучшим игроком всех времен и народов, Пеле завоевывал Кубок мира в 1958, 1962 и 1970 годах вместе со сборной Бразилии; а сейчас популяризирует футбол по всему миру вместе с ФИФА), были бы тогда такие проблемы?