Blimey. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5ylq7p0e62o That's crossing the line, even for an agent
Sao Paulo v Flamengo this evening attracted a paltry 11,000 spectators. Elfs, are attendances always so poor in Brazil? I always thought of Brazilian teams playing to vast crowds in colossal arenas.
For reasons unknown Sao Paulo played the game at Santos' ground. Santos is around 3 hours from Sao Paulo. The capacity of Santos is around 16k. Sao Paulo have a fantastic bowl of a ground and can take around 65k, attendances are not normally announced over here but at a guess they would comfortably pull in 40k for a game. For the derbies and Flamengo they'd be near capacity. The majority of games in Serie A will see gates of 30k plus, Vasco da Gama have a similar capacity to Santos but they play the Rio derbies in the Maracana then the gates go upto 50k. Out here you will pay between 10-£30 for games so you do not get fleeced, this is as a non member, as a member the tickets are even cheaper.
