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Sign up Explore our Food Tours → Let’s say you have only two or three days in Rio You want to experience a little real Brazilian culture and don’t want to restrict yourself to the obvious tourist stops overhyped bars and restaurants or usual “gringo” nightlife spots which means “fair,” is organized by people from the northeast (nordeste) which is the poorest region in the country That poverty has led millions of northeasterners to migrate to Rio over the last 50 years to seek a better life And Feira de São Cristóvão is where they express themselves culturally from Friday afternoon through Sunday night located in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão More than 10,000 people visit the feira every weekend but there are plenty of cariocas and tourists too – and they are undoubtedly there because northeastern culture is surely one of the most fascinating things about Brazil at least two big stages and a dozen smaller ones host nonstop performances of forró a music genre with a magnetic beat – anchored by the insistent ring of the humble triangle – that makes everybody dance all night long The fair is also the place to buy northeastern handicrafts is the food – typical northeastern dishes at stands of every size The big stalls operate like real restaurants and offer substantial most of them made with goat meat or dried beef (the northeast’s famous carne de sol) One especially popular dish is buchada de bode (goat offal) Less exotic but equally tasty are the typical combinations of dried meat and pumpkin (jabá com jerimum) and northeastern-style rice and beans made with sliced bananas and meat (baião de dois) You can find all of those dishes – and much more – at stands like Barracão do Aconchego But really any restaurant you find at the fair will serve you excellent and honest northeastern food The big restaurants are just part of the show. At Feira de São Cristóvão, there are also smaller stands slinging appetizers, beverages and candy, selling such specialties as acarajé the typical Afro-Brazilian street food of balls made from mashed black-eyed peas and fried in azeite de dendê (palm oil) which is always served by traditionally dressed baianas (Bahian women) The northeast is big: It’s composed of nine states Feira de São Cristóvão offers seemingly infinite possibilities for exploration It warrants multiple visits – we recommend going at least a dozen times loading map - please wait...Map could not be loaded - please enable Javascript!→ more information What began as a recreation area for immigrants from Brazil’s northeast is now a destination for visitors looking to get off the beaten tourist path The densely populated São Cristóvão quarter is home to this enormous complex to which visitors may arrive at a reasonable hour and not get out before dawn Afternoons are for shopping and noshing; but after dark and the marketplace becomes a scene for partying and live-music performances that are 100-proof Brazil Authentic northeastern music known as forró plays until sunup Information on this page, including website, location, and opening hours, is subject to have changed since this page was last published. 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SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM: Please consider donating to keep our website running and free for all - thank you is set to be restored after being destroyed by a large fire. the historic palace was largely destroyed by the blaze on 2 September 2018 the former royal residence was being used as a museum and housed the major part of the collections of the National Museum of Brazil The building served as residence to the Portuguese Royal Family and later to the Brazilian Imperial Family This was the case until 1889 when the country became a republic through a coup d’état deposing Emperor Pedro II plans were unveiled to restore the building The government believes that the palace restoration works can be completed by 2024 the part of the castle that was used by the royals all those years ago will also be restored and brought back to the way it was when the family had to flee Brazil to go into exile The royal apartments will be revived and used as a place where people can learn about the Brazilian monarchy and the imperial family the beginning of the restoration works on the facades and roofs of the historic block of the palace will start points out that the continuity of the reconstruction project requires more funds The estimated total for the recovery of the facades and roofs alone is 379 million Brazilian real approximately 245 million Brazilian real has been raised and a portion has been invested in the stages completed or in progress the Museum also seeks more partners in the private sector will be invested in the preparation of the executive project obtained thanks to a partnership between UNESCO the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Cultural Institute After the declaration of Independence of Brazil in 1822 the palace became the residence of Emperor Pedro I The remodelling and expansion of the palace continued from 1822 to 1847 After the marriage of Pedro I and Archduchess Maria Leopoldina of Austria in 1817 After the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 the Imperial family left the country and the palace and its surrounding gardens became empty one of the few known surviving major artifacts is the Bendegó meteorite a metallic roof covering 5,000-m² upper the debris was built An estimated 20 million artifacts appear to have been lost to the flames that devoured the nation’s oldest scientific institution a litany that includes treasures ranging from one of the oldest human fossils ever found in South America to artifacts made and used by indigenous cultures to incalculable numbers of specimen insects gathered throughout this biodynamically diverse part of the planet Exquisite Portuguese Colonial furniture perished as well a candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential elections “The catastrophe that hit the National Museum this Sunday is equivalent to a lobotomy in Brazilian memory.” a building that has housed the Museu Nacional since 1889 and which has been ill-served by governmental budget cuts The New York Times reported that the museum which is run by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and staffers were known to have raised money among themselves to pay for repairs and maintenance When fire brigades arrived on Sunday evening they discovered that the hydrants outside had no water Called Paço de São Cristóvão—the Palace of St Christopher—the structure was the primary residence of Brazil’s imperial family and fled to his colony of Brazil to avoid Napoleon’s approaching armies and their eight children moved into Rio’s charming 18th-century viceroy’s palace Their country place was Quinta da Boa Vista which had been given to the royal exiles by a local merchant and offered a splendid vista of glittering Guanabara Bay from its veranda A contemporary observer called it “perfectly plain in consequence of the windows being so crowded together with the Robert Adam–style arched gate presented by the Duke of Northumberland Then came a gift that launched a remodeling campaign: a monumental new entrance João originally just wanted two iron gates like those at Syon House the Duke of Northumberland’s suburban London residence and asked the duke if a craftsman could whip up some copies for Boa Vista who had lived in Brazil for a while in the 1790s not only the requested replicas of the gates but also of the stone gate lodges and colonnades flanking them an ensemble that had been designed by Robert Adam and erected in 1773 Johnston stayed on to improve it with fashionable neo-Gothic details after alterations by British architect John Johnston made more alterations in the middle of the 1820s Those changes were overturned later in the decade by Peter Joseph Pézérat who expanded Boa Vista and set it on a neoclassical course As a guide to Brazilian architecture explains “The old plantation home and then suburban mansion was adapted to the monumental requirements of a palace.” following renovations by Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre and Theodore Marx even Pézérat’s ennobling was tinkered with The tastemaker Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre unified the façade of the much-altered palace in the 1840s for Pedro II such as the classical-style statues that populate the roofline Theodore Marx came along in 1858 to undertake even more work (He and Porto-Alegre also designed the imperial family’s Palácio do Grão-Pará which is the home of Prince Pedro-Carlos of Orléans-Braganza a forest engineer who might be emperor if the monarchy hadn’t been overthrown in 1889.) Along the way the color of the exterior changed sand-beige—and the gardens were always in flux finally achieving their current shape in the 1860s thanks to French landscape architect Auguste Glaziou Whether Paço de São Cristóvão will be rebuilt as it was is unknown As the museum’s website states: “Unfortunately we cannot yet confirm what can and cannot be saved but we still consider it early for any balance or diagnosis.” Millions of dollars have been released by Brazil’s Ministry of Education as part of the salvage effort—funds that would have been well spent years ago on sprinklers More from AD PRO: Has Instagram Made Design Shows Better? Sign up for the AD PRO newsletter for all the design news you need to know the third largest poultry company in Brazil plans to expand its chicken processing capacity by as much as 20% over the next two years Aurora Alimentos has several products for national consumption and for export. (Benjamin Ruiz)Aurora Alimentos Neivor Canton, the company’s CEO, told Reuters that the privately-held Aurora intends to invest BRL500 million (US$93 million) in 2021 to achieve that goal processes about 6,000 metric tons of animal protein daily Aurora hopes to boost its export sales to other markets such as China The company also hopes to better compete with rival Brazilian companies JBS and BRF which are respectively the largest and third largest poultry producers in the world uses 160,000 metric tons of corn to feed hogs and chickens each month The company also said it intends to maintain its current level of pork production with hopes of continuing to export products as China and other countries struggle with African swine fever (ASF) By submitting this form, you acknowledge that use of your data is governed by our Privacy Policy. you agree to receive texts or calls regarding your subscription or other WATT products and services Please call +1 (847) 400-5960 for custom support It’s been a month since Brazil lost one of its oldest and most representative assets. A fire destroyed and erased more than 200 years of the Paço de São Cristóvão’s architectural history. The building served as a residence for the royal family, and turned a great part of its collection into dust, with many of the items being one-of-a-kind. The National Museum is seeking to rebuild in the aftermath of the tragedy Several institutions have taken a stand and initiatives have been made in this direction The emergency works began on September 21 to contain The Department of Education (MEC) allocated $2.4 million (R$ 8.9 million) to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) to complete the first phase of the rebuilding process. Concrejato Engenharia (National Maintenance/Engineers) have been working on site since then, and say it will take six months to complete in compliance with legislation. Besides clearing the site, the first phase also includes protecting and anchoring the remaining structures and building a temporary independent roof made of metal. The fire destroyed the building and its collection. Image: Mauro Pimentel/AFP"The first stage is fundamental for future technical studies on site that will allow for the reconstruction of the museum. The criteria provided will later be adopted for the project," says Nasser. Listed by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) since 1938, Paço de São Cristóvão was built in the beginning of the 19th century by Elie Antun Lubbus (or Elias Antônio Lopes, his “Portuguese” name) and became the official residence of D. João on January 1, 1809.   Built in the eclectic style, the structure had a built area of 13,600 square meters distributed through 122 rooms and three floors. Luís André Moreira Alves, technical coordinator of Rio’s Civil Defense, told HAUS that about 80% of its structure was destroyed by the fire. Soon after the tragedy, the museum’s vice director Cristiana Serejo estimated that the budget would be around $3.7 million (R$ 15 million). However, management is currently working to include in the 2019 Union budget which predicts that it will be around $13.4 million to $27 million (R$ 50 to R$ 100 million) to begin the reconstruction. In a press conference on October 2, the museum’s director Alexander Kellner said that the resources are the first step to reopen the museum in three years time. In an interview for “O Globo,” Kellner added that the façade and the external grounds will be kept, but that the interior will be redesigned using sustainable and energy efficient materials with low carbon emissions. The budget, however, only considers the building itself, as the lost artifacts can never be recovered or replaced. Rebuilding is an option and UFRJ is working to get the funds to do it. Image: Alexandre Macieira/RioturWith this being said, the Portuguese government announced that they will take inventory of its own collection to see what can, in the future, be transferred to the National Museum The declaration was made by Luís Filipe Castro Mendes during a meeting with Brazilian Education Minister Rossieli Soares on September 14 as stated by the Department of Education (MEC) According to the Department of Education, the General Director of Portuguese Cultural Heritage, Paula Araújo da Silva commented that she had been keeping in touch with IPHAN to align actions between the two countries When asked by our reporters, IPHAN confirmed that since 2017 “it has made a cooperation agreement with the Portuguese Directorate General for Cultural Heritage with the intent of promoting interchange and to develop projects that promote the common cultural heritage between the countries.” The text highlights that up to this moment the institution has not been contacted to discuss the National Museum’s rebuilding By Gazeta do Povo You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email The Brazilian National Museum has recovered 90% of the artifacts not totally destroyed by the flames and has raised almost 45% of the funding it needs to begin reconstruction in 2021 The search for remnants of artifacts in the rubble of the Brazilian National Museum has been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic The salvage operation among the ruins of Paço de São Cristóvão the palace that the institution linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) used to call home is scheduled to resume at the beginning of next year Museum management estimates that it has recovered 90% of the salvageable material and that another six weeks are needed to complete this phase According to a report released by the Federal Police in April last year the fire was started by an electrical overload in an air conditioning unit Frescoes from Pompeii before the fire...Romulo and Valentino Fialdini Fabio Motta / Agência Globo A temporary cover protects the institution’s facade and interiorFabio Motta / Agência Globo Much of the research conducted by staff from the museum relies on field investigations which has suffered less impact from the fire paleontologist Juliana Sayão runs the Paleoantar project linked to the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR) We came back with more than a ton of fossils and began exhibiting the material at the Casa da Moeda at the beginning of 2019,” recalls Sayão including professors and graduate students from the National Museum and other institutions has spent 20–50 days on Antarctica each summer looking for traces of the icy continent’s distant past Kellner presented a set of bones belonging to pterosaurs winged reptiles that lived some 85 million years ago which he found during expeditions to two islands in the Antarctic Peninsula The fossils were in the São Cristóvão Palace at the time of the fire but some were rescued in a good enough condition to be studied two more articles resulting from trips to Antarctica have been published: one describing Hoploparia echinata a new species of crayfish; and the other highlighting the first occurrence of a type of fossil coral on James Ross Island it will not be possible to resume fieldwork in the continent’s next summer Paleontologists from the National Museum will instead work on academic papers based on material already collected “Knowing the Antarctic’s past and all the processes that led to its freezing helps us to understand the biodiversity of our entire planet,” says Sayão Fieldwork by other teams from the museum has also continued since the disaster astronomer Maria Elizabeth Zucolotto from the museum’s meteorology department is leading an expedition to the outback of Pernambuco where a meteorite shower recently fell over the small town of Santa Filomena the researcher has been looking for fragments of these solid bodies from space The invertebrates department has been working hard to rebuild its arachnology collection which was consumed in its entirety by the flames The museum’s researchers are certainly not twiddling their thumbs while they wait for the São Cristóvão Palace to be rebuilt © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved he was already sleeping on top of a chest freezer in his parents’ tasca Like so many tasca owners in the Portuguese capital they had come to Lisbon from northern Portugal’s Minho region years before Zé Paulo used to help with the service while his mother cooked and his father ran the business behind the counter His professional fate was sealed from the beginning Naturally, he went to culinary school. But he didn’t want to replace his mother in the kitchen. “Actually, my first intention was to become a pastry chef,” he says. But after a year spent working at Taberna Sal Grosso probably the main impetus for the current tasca revival movement in Lisbon “I learned a lot working there,” he recalls That inspiration is obvious from the moment one steps foot in O Velho Eurico O Eurico was a tasca familiar to many lisboetas It had been a staple in the Mouraria neighborhood for several decades with senhor Eurico – hence the name ­– and his wife Carolina at the helm They also had a grocery shop next door: When the restaurant was too crowded they put extra tables in the shop’s corridor and clients would dine between rice packets and cleaning products Eurico and Carolina were also originally from Minho – that’s why the bacalhau à Minhota because I see something of my father in him.” Business had been going well but in the last few years Eurico had some health issues and Carolina couldn’t do it all – take care of the restaurant and her husband – despite her apparent boundless energy they decided to close up shop in January and look for new tenants (they own the building and live upstairs) Zé Paulo’s uncle learned about the opportunity and convinced his nephew to check it out The young gun liked what he saw and decided to go for it another cook with whom he had worked before and got the place up and running with the help of his father who restored every chair in the restaurant by hand O Eurico became O Velho (“The Old”) Eurico because I see something of my father in him it’s a matter of respect: They had the restaurant for more than 40 years.” The similarities with the aforementioned Taberna Sal Grosso are evident starting with the main blackboard menu on the wall where clients can see all of that day’s dishes “We thought about the menu in the three months it took us to renovate this place,” Zé Paulo says Bestsellers include a very good bacalhau à Brás but also Iscas de Cebolada (pork livers) and a recipe that he took from his mother It’s not the only one that she shared with her son “My mother was here for three days making Leite Creme [crème brûlée] because we had to register on the technical file the recipe she does instinctively.” That pretty much sums up this new era of tascas: giving old recipes new life This article was originally published on September 27 SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM: Please consider donating to keep our website running and free for all - thank you! The Brazilian Imperial Palace in Rio de Janeiro which burnt down last year is to be rebuilt, with the first stage of construction already beginning. The Palace of Saint Christopher, also called Palácio Imperial de São Cristóvão, served as residence to the Portuguese Royal Family and later to the Brazilian Imperial Family until 1889, when the country became a republic through a coup d’état deposing Emperor Pedro II. Since the deposing of the imperial family in 1889, the Palace has been used as the national museum of Brazil. It was on 2 September 2018 that the palace was completely destroyed by a major fire. Although some items were saved, it is believed that 92.5 % of its archive of 20 million items were destroyed in the fire, though circa 1.5 million items are stored in a separate building, which was not damaged. The burning imperial Palace of Saint Christopher in the background, her together with the statue of Brazil`s last Emperor, Pedro II. Photo: Felipe Milanez via Wikimedia Commons. Efforts to restore Brazil’s National Museum are still underway five months after it was engulfed in a devastating fire. The Brazilian government gave journalists a tour through the ruins in Rio de Janeiro in February. Local construction workers used scaffolds to reinforce the main areas of the museum for the safety of staff and reporters. According to the vice-director of the National Museum, Luiz Duarte, the institution had suffered from years of neglect under numerous governments. “We never got anything from the federal government. We recently finalised an agreement with the state-run development bank BNDES for massive investment, so that we could finally restore the palace, and, ironically, we had planned on a new fire prevention system,” said Luiz Duarte to Globo TV following the fire. The Imperial Palace of Saint Christopher before the fire in 2018. Photo: Paço de São Cristóvão via Wikimedia Commons. The interior of the museum is still in ruins, but restoration work has begun on cultural relics. Some pieces survived the fire, including the famous Bendegó meteorite and a library of 500,000 books, including works dating back to the days of the Portuguese empire and royal family. The rebuilding of the collection and the museum has received international help. Among the many donors, the German Foreign Ministry has offered € 1 million in aid to rebuild the museum. With this in mind, the first decision was to take advantage of an existing structure. A warehouse space was chosen because it`s an open plan space, it stands at a height of 9 meters, and it contains translucent tiles, which allow the entrance of natural light, all fundamental components. Floor PlansThe program consisted of small offices for residents, a photographic studio, a sewing studio, showroom, natural food restaurant, shared kitchen, administrative area, as well as a multipurpose room, co-working space, and auditorium. © Ilana BesslerThe project to occupy the hangar should not only reflect the MALHA collective`s concerns about sustainability but also promote meeting and exchange. Space should be treated as a great democratic site of debate and learning. © Ilana BesslerThe starting point for the occupation strategy was the use of containers as the main constructive element that would allow the distribution of the program throughout the hangar, as well as a quick and clean construction. SectionsThe logic of the occupation consisted in the creation of empty spaces between the forty-two repurposed containers, distributed over two levels along the interior walls. This empty space between the containers structures the project and was intended to provide different ways of appropriation and occupation, such as parades, markets, debates and film screenings. © Ilana BesslerSome pallets have been spread throughout the space, serving as seating, and small plant beds have been set up which, combined with the sofas, benches, and tables, create an atmosphere that blends the ambiance of a house with that of a public space. © Ilana BesslerThe photo and sewing studios and the showroom were arranged near the main entrance, while the natural food restaurant, multipurpose room/coworking space, administration room and shared kitchen are concentrated on the opposite side. There was also an open space for lectures and cinema, which consists of a kind of grandstand facing a big screen. © Ilana BesslerFor the occupation of the interior of the containers, six different uses were proposed, among them, offices, meeting rooms, and pop-up stores. In addition to the container, materials of low environmental impact and low cost were chosen, such as plywood, metallic tiles, and translucent tiles, applied to the internal façades. © Ilana BesslerThrough all these choices, the MALHA project was committed to rising to the contemporary challenges posed by architecture practices in big metropolises, such as Rio de Janeiro, which involves, among other things, exploring the potential of existing structures. This implies studying new forms of construction and new spatial mechanisms for the occupation of interiors. the project sought to contribute some solutions to these problems The fact that MALHA works as a public space allows the debate to be extended beyond architecture circles since the strong presence of the containers and materials chosen does not go unnoticed by visitors UNESCO specialists will help Brazil rebuild the São Cristóvão Palace using modern security techniques Reproduction from the book Debret e o Brasil – Obra complete Watercolor by Debret, 1817, shows the palace after its first major renovation. On the right, a neo-Gothic style pavilion, designed by architect John JohnstonReproduction from the book Debret e o Brasil – Obra complete The building shall be restored to the same standard as the original. With 13,600 square meters of space over three floors, the palace was a neoclassical design with eclectic decoration. “But it was not always so. The palace underwent successive renovations while it was home to the Portuguese Royal Family after they moved to Brazil in 1808,” says architect Ronaldo Foster Vidal, from the Brazilian Institute for Engineering Assessments and Expertise (IBAPE). Wikimedia Commons Side view of the building between 1858 and 1861Wikimedia Commons The materials chosen for the project are fundamental. “Today we have the technology to make historic buildings safer. Wood, for example, can be treated with an intumescent paint that protects it from fire,” explains architect Pedro Mendes da Rocha, who was in charge of restoring the Museum of the Portuguese Language, located in the Estação da Luz railway station in São Paulo, after a fire in December 2015. Wikimedia Commons The Palace of Ajuda in Lisbon, made of stone and lime, was the inspiration for the first renovations of the São Cristóvão PalaceWikimedia Commons When the fire started, the National Museum had already closed to the public, the firefighters were no longer there, and just four guards were patrolling the building. It was later learned that the building never had the mandatory Fire Department Inspection Certificate that demonstrates compliance with legal safety standards. Brazil has the necessary technical knowledge and museum conservation specialists Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil Cristina Menegazzi (middle) during a visit to the ruins of the National MuseumFernando Frazão/Agência Brasil also a professor at FAU and a member of the same research group as Ono says that modernization of the historic buildings that house important physical collections is inevitable we didn’t even consider keeping tanks of water for containing fires,” she says “Modernization helps to preserve and conserve the building itself including its period architecture and the collections exhibited or stored there.” buildings like the National Museum were lit with candles and lamps,” points out Jovanilson Faleiro de Freitas an electrical engineer and coordinator of the Specialist Electrical Engineering Chambers at the federal and regional Engineering and Agronomy Councils (CONFEA/CREA) with wires insulated by bitumen-coated paper This process of evolution is a nightmare for every historic building because when electrical installations are not properly updated In order to guarantee the safety of these electrics modern wiring must be proportional in size to the amount of energy used circuit breakers automatically disarm the system these systems need to undergo maintenance more than once a decade,” says Rocha Museums need technical teams able to follow and update safety standards including for one-off exhibitions with specific characteristics which are regular occurrences in these buildings Historic buildings must be constantly and preventively maintained © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved. São Cristovão, Vila MadalenaIf you're visiting São Paulo and are interested in Brazilian football make the city's football museum your first stop – and this fantastic Practically every inch of the walls and ceiling is plastered with footie-themed memorabilia – 3,500 mementos from the owners beloved São Cristovão football club and others providing a free history lesson of the Brazilian game Vila Madalena is São Paulo's most established nightlife destination and Rua Aspicuelta and the surrounding streets are full of great little bars serving excellent chopp (draft beer) and food (try the pot-roast-like carne de panela) take a stroll to one of the many other bars nearby The page you are looking for cannot be found You may have followed a broken or outdated link spring afternoon at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte in November 1993 with Bahia’s away game against Cruzeiro in the Campeonato Brasileiro drawing to an end Bahia goalkeeper Rodolfo Rodriguez knelt on the grass in his six-yard box put his hands on his head and looked to the skies his gesture was a lament aimed at his fragile defence and a plea for mercy from the heavens there was one thing he had not accounted for The 16-year-old boy stood a few steps behind him was not one for clemency That boy had one thing on his mind and one alone: scoring goals but the second the ball was unattended had been long enough The goalkeeper grasped at thin air; it was gone the adolescent in the dazzling blue shirt had nipped in he had poked it into the back of the empty net Rodriguez stood up and appealed for some imaginary infringement The embarrassment had already been inflicted had scored his fifth of the afternoon and Cruzeiro’s sixth “Ronaldo was a forward who was always paying attention to everything he never gave up,” Rodriguez told Superesportes years later and with Ronaldo’s eviscerating performance in that game the newspapers in Belo Horizonte featured the grinning buck-toothed teenager on their front and back covers and several of the pages in between the headline read: ‘Brasil se curva aos pes do Ronaldo’ – ‘Brazil bows down at Ronaldo’s feet.’ the teenage striker was called up to the Brazil squad for the very first time he went on to win his first senior club silverware was part of the Brazil squad that lifted the World Cup in Pasadena and earned himself a big-money move to PSV Eindhoven But that game against Bahia is etched onto the Brazilian collective conscience as the moment Ronaldo announced himself as a superstar of the future the time between anonymity and national fame flying past like Ronaldo flew past defenders with the ball at his feet Ronaldo had only really taken his first step towards becoming a professional footballer three years prior to scoring five against Bahia in front of several thousand people in the ground and many more watching on television Ronaldo had always roamed the streets of Rio de Janeiro with a ball at his feet and he played for a futsal side called Clube Social Ramos when he and his friend Alexandre Calango were taken in by Sao Cristovao a club from the Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of the same name Sao Cristovao’s stadium sits just a 20-minute walk from the iconic Maracana Sao Cristovao now play in the lower reaches of the Rio de Janeiro state league system and in recent years have teetered on the brink of bankruptcy playing in the top flight of the state league but they were not giants of the Rio football scene by any stretch the club’s facilities were situated relatively close to Ronaldo’s family home in the working-class Rio suburb of Bento Ribeiro and Sao Cristovao’s coaches and directors were ready to give him the support he needed an offer that was not forthcoming from the bigger clubs at which Ronaldo had had trials Alfredo Sampaio was the Sao Cristovao Under-17 coach when Ronaldo started playing for the Under-15s and remembers his arrival well “He was being looked at by Flamengo,” Sampaio says “but he had a lot of financial difficulties He didn’t have money to go to training [on the bus] and Flamengo didn’t offer the help A Sao Cristovao director by the name of Ary de Sa – the same man who had made the deal with Clube Social Ramos to give some of their futsal players a chance to play on grass – provided a little financial assistance to Ronaldo and his family as he did with other young Sao Cristovao players from less well-off families Ronaldo must have been devastated by the missed opportunity with Flamengo according to Sao Cristovao youth team colleagues the club he loved so much he tried to avoid playing against them at youth level But at Sao Cristovao he was finally in a place where he could demonstrate the skill honed on the streets while skipping school which he did much to the irritation of his mother Sonia dos Santos who was vehemently opposed to her son’s footballing ambitions Even with Dona Sonia’s constant reprobation “I remember [the first time I saw him play] because it was a game soon after he’d arrived at Sao Cristovao,” he says “It was a friendly tournament [with the Under-15 team] and he scored five goals in the game That one game was enough for Ronaldo’s rise to begin He was soon playing for the Under-17 team coached by Sampaio who was then promoted to coach the Under-20s Though Ronaldo was still young enough to be playing for the Under-15s Sampaio says he didn’t hesitate for a second to take Ronaldo with him onto that next rung of the ladder The coach remembers a cheeky but pleasant young man boys playing football in Brazil come from poor backgrounds and you end up seeing some difficult behaviour because of the environment in which they live “His mother was always present in his life He didn’t have the resources to do the things that he might have liked to do Ronaldo’s youth-team strike partner Clayton Grilo remembers that they dreamed of playing against each other as professionals – Ronaldo for Flamengo and Clayton for Fluminense – and would listen to endless funk carioca a genre of music that emanated from Rio’s favelas Clayton also recalls the pair skipping bus fares so they could save the little money they were given by the club for clothes so they could look like their funk singer idols “Back in the day it was all that baile funk,” says Clayton who went on to play for Gremio and Fluminense “[Ronaldo] used to tell us that he’d go to the baile funk [dances] and get with loads of women Today he can get whoever he wants but in those days Ronaldo’s behaviour was nothing out of the ordinary for a teenager There was one quirky element to the young Ronaldo’s personality that Sampaio noticed ‘Why do you score goals and not celebrate?’ He turned around and said I’m going to end up getting tired.’ He was like that that some tactical and technical aspects of the game passed him by completely Sampaio remembers that if he wanted Ronaldo to mark a certain opposition player when Sao Cristovao were out of possession it was not enough to refer to that player by his position ‘Make sure you don’t give the deep-lying midfielder too much time on the ball,’ Ronaldo would look at him blankly Sampaio had to point out the boy he wanted him to mark If it was against Pele or if it was against Joe Bloggs on the corner dribbling ability and unerring finishing made the other parts of his game irrelevant “He did stepovers with one leg and the other,” Clayton Grilo recalls “Nobody could catch him when he was running the little rascal didn’t like to run at all Even if it wasn’t yet clear that Ronaldo would become quite as good as he eventually did – “If I told you that I knew [at that time] that he would be one of the icons of world football I would be lying,” Sampaio says – people other than the coaches at Sao Cristovao were starting to notice Ronaldo’s promise emerging football agents Reinaldo Pitta and Alexandre Martins bought Ronaldo’s contract from Sao Cristovao for US$7,500 Sampaio had recommended that it would prove a wise investment national team scouts had started to sit up and take note of a boy who was making waves against some of the nation’s strongest sides at youth level despite playing for a relative minnow Ronaldo had just made another step up alongside Sampaio who had been promoted to coach the first team Yet before he could play for Sao Cristovao’s senior side the 16-year-old was selected as part of the Brazil Under-17 squad that travelled to Colombia for the South American championships the tournament was a disaster – they finished fourth and failed to qualify for an Under-17 World Cup for the first time in Brazil’s history it was another significant landmark on his road to superstardom a Ronaldo hat-trick gave Brazil a 3-2 victory over Chile and further Ronaldo-inspired wins against Uruguay Paraguay and Bolivia saw Brazil progress to the second stage – a four-team group that would decide the three nations to qualify for the Under-17 World Cup Brazil lost 2-1 to Argentina before struggling to 2-2 draws with both Chile and Colombia The Selecao finished bottom of the group and the other three teams went to the World Cup later that year But Ronaldo had barged his way through opposition defences scoring a total of eight by the time the tournament came to an end It was sufficient for the next leg of his journey to begin Big clubs had already shown an interest in Ronaldo by then Botafogo had offered agents Pitta and Martins 50% of a future transfer fee in return for Ronaldo’s signature less than the US$25,000 the young agents were requesting prior to Ronaldo’s barnstorming displays with the Brazil Under-17s With that tournament fresh in the memories of the nation’s scouts Ronaldo’s price had risen and Pitta and Martins went out looking for another suitor “There was an agent here called Leo Rabelo,” Sampaio says “and Leo Rabelo was already prestigious in the eyes of Brazilian clubs It was Leo Rabelo who intermediated with Cruzeiro he opened the doors for Ronaldo and his agents.” a significant return on their US$7,500 investment it was reported in the press that it was in fact Jairzinho the 1970 World Cup hero and Cruzeiro legend who had recommended Ronaldo to his old club the 1982 World Cup final referee Arnaldo Cezar Coelho said on SporTV that it was Jairzinho “who polished Ronaldo Pitta and Martins published a statement saying Coelho’s claims were false Their version is that Jairzinho coached Sao Cristovao around that time but never worked with Ronaldo directly and that Sampaio recommended Ronaldo to them Sampaio says the latter is “the only version” he knows It was the first soap-opera drama of Ronaldo’s career the fact is Ronaldo became a Cruzeiro player He made the journey 400km north to Belo Horizonte finally getting a shot with one of the nation’s biggest clubs Design: Euan Moss Ronaldo was not put straight into the first team when he arrived scoring four goals on his youth-team debut he was still one more extremely talented youth player in a country that produces them like the Cadbury’s factory churns out Dairy Milks There were even arguments in Belo Horizonte bars about whether Cruzeiro or their local rivals Atletico Mineiro had the better up-and-coming centre-forward and Ronaldo and Reinaldo battled it out in the local Under-20 classicos and for the No.9 shirt in the Brazil Under-17 side Hellas Verona in Italy as well as a host of big Brazilian clubs But as Reinaldo himself admitted after retiring there was something extra special about his friend and rival “When [Ronaldo] came into the [youth] Selecao I’d been there two or three years,” Reinaldo told Superesportes “I always joked with Caio Ribeiro when Ronaldo came on in the second half we already saw that one of the two was going to end up on the bench He’d come on and it’d be stepovers this way and that.” Less than three months after arriving in Belo Horizonte – three months in which Ronaldo found time to finish top scorer in the Minas Gerais Under-20 championship – Cruzeiro’s first-team coach Pinheiro saw fit to hand the awkward skinny teenager his senior debut in a Minas Gerais state championship game against Caldense told Hoje em Dia: “I really remember him on the pitch After a few more games back in the youth team and another tournament with the Brazil Under-17 team in the United States that served as a test event for the World Cup the following year – which nobody then expected Ronaldo to go to – he travelled to Portugal with the first team a more senior Cruzeiro forward at the time who now works with the club’s Under-17 team says: “Cruzeiro went on a tour to Portugal and Ronaldo went as part of the touring party By then it wasn’t Pinheiro as coach anymore scoring his first senior goal against Belenenses – with his head ironically – and his second against Penarol “[Ronaldo] went really well at the tournament over there,” Careca continues and he enchanted both the Portuguese and the manager Carlos Alberto Silva Carlos Alberto maintained Ronaldo in the first team Porto were so impressed that they offered Cruzeiro president Cesar Masci US$500,000 on the spot 10 times what Cruzeiro had paid a few months prior Masci said he wanted US$750,000 and Porto put an end to negotiations Porto’s reluctance to shell out that extra quarter of a million meant Ronaldo stayed in Brazil a little longer giving him time to get to know the rest of the squad Careca remembers a happy-go-lucky character: “He was not at all shy His relationship with the other players was excellent “He was a boy who even at the beginning at Cruzeiro showed great potential technically [But] what most impressed me about Ronaldo and what impressed me right from the start was his focus on becoming an idol and a great player.” the ability to shut out the world and concentrate only on his game is something others close to him comment on too In Jorge Caldeira’s book Ronaldo: Gloria e Drama no Futebol Globalizado Alirio Carvalho says: “What was special about him was his attitude Sao Cristovao coach Alfredo Sampaio says something similar: “If there was a time that he didn’t play as well “When he played against the best in the world soon saw Ronaldo scoring goal after goal after goal for the Cruzeiro first team It was already September by the time Cruzeiro returned from Portugal but Ronaldo found the net 20 more times before the year was out Ronaldo scored against his beloved Flamengo and managed eight in the Supercopa Libertadores Cruzeiro beat Chilean league leaders Colo-Colo 9-4 on aggregate Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick and setting up another in the first game and scoring twice more in the second leg Ronaldo scored three against Nacional of Uruguay – once at home in a 2-1 loss twice away in a 3-2 win – including a deliciously skilful goal to make it 2-0 and a last-minute winner to take the game to penalties but Ronaldo had already done enough to make himself the Supercopa’s top scorer That was swiftly followed by the five goals in that single game against Bahia in which Rodolfo Rodriguez suffered his embarrassing lapse late on – a game that was dissected and replayed on television for the whole of Brazil to see and resulted in Ronaldo’s first senior Selecao call up Careca scored the only other goal that afternoon “[Ronaldo] showed all of his talent: mental The only thing he didn’t do that day was make it rain in the Minerao That’s when he started to grab the attention of the world “Playing with Ronaldo was really easy because his quality was so far above average play and grow and give a better account of themselves He made the game easier and did something that today is rare he was a forward who decided games by himself Ronaldo was already working on another part of his reputation in Belo Horizonte He liked to sneak out of the digs where he lived with other players to hit the town and would sleep at Cruzeiro fans’ houses to get around the curfew imposed by the club as Belo Horizonte-based journalist Paulo Galvao says Ronaldo “was always a boy who people said liked two things: women and food” As part of an improved contract he earned while at Cruzeiro club president Cesar Masci had given the young striker a red VW Gol that he used to get to and from training and go out in the city “I still lived in an apartment in the city centre in ‘93,” Galvao says “and I was walking home one Sunday evening There was a bus stop on the way and there was a guy [in a car] talking to a girl [at the bus stop You don’t need to wait for the bus.’ She was saying for you to understand that in Brazil things weren’t really that serious Whatever he was getting up to off the pitch didn’t affect his form in the slightest Ronaldo kept hitting the net week after week that blistering speed destroying defences left and right A hat-trick in a pre-season friendly against Jubilo Iwata in Tokyo introduced him to the audience in front of which he later starred in 2002 but the two displays that really grabbed the attention were both in the Mineirao a ground on which he scored 32 goals in 27 games when Ronaldo scored all three of his team’s goals in a 3-1 derby win over Atletico in front of almost 70,000 people under pouring rain the game is remembered for a bit of skill that took him past Uruguayan centre-back Fernando Kanapkis “He didn’t only destroy the game but he destroyed Kanapkis The Cruzeiro fans gave him a three-minute standing ovation.” Ronaldo Fenômeno 'entortando' o Kanapkis, ex-jogador das frangas (1994) pic.twitter.com/FUFMF7Hcm6 — Cruzeiro em Vídeos (@CECemVideos) May 31, 2016 The second gala display was in the Copa Libertadores against Boca Juniors. Ronaldo had been kicked and fouled in the previous game between the two at the Bombonera, and if he went out for revenge, he got it rounded the goalkeeper and tapped the ball into the unguarded net to win the game The calls for Ronaldo to be handed a national team debut reached deafening levels and between those two games for Cruzeiro Ronaldo was included in the squad for a friendly with Argentina at the wild crumbling Arruda stadium in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Recife Ronaldo only got 10 minutes at the end after one of his childhood heroes Bebeto had given Brazil a 2-0 lead in the first half as Diego Maradona who was trying to get in shape for the World Cup But Ronaldo’s cameo in front of 100,000 fans was what the nation desired As journalist Paulo Galvao says: “We have to remember that Brazil struggled to qualify for the World Cup in 1990 and in 1994 So there was that desire to see a player who really was out of the ordinary Ronaldo was called up again for a friendly with Iceland in the southern Brazilian city of Florianopolis exactly six weeks before the World Cup kicked off with Diana Ross’ infamous penalty in Chicago Romario and Bebeto were already guaranteed as the starting attacking duo in the USA but Parreira was unsure of who else to take and against Iceland playing with the No.7 on his back alongside Corinthians forward Viola a loose ball dropped on the edge of the area and Ronaldo was there He hit it first time with his left foot and after taking a slight deflection off an Icelandic defender it nestled into the bottom corner of the goal Asked about the goal on Brazilian TV years later Iceland goalkeeper Birkir Kristinsson chuckled and said: “I think [Ronaldo] was lucky because I would have saved it but the ball deflected and went into the right corner Obviously we could see he was a great player scored two in the following two games and with it secured his first title as a player – the Campeonato Mineiro 1994 he picked up another top-scorer gong to go with his medal All he could do now was wait as Parreira decided to whom those last few plane tickets would go The day of the announcement came and television cameras and radio reporters piled into Ronaldo’s living room along with him and his family As Parriera read out the names and Ronaldo was among them brace-filled smile that broke across his face Perhaps a phone call had been made to tell him the news in private beforehand or maybe it was another example of his supreme confidence Despite the hype and hot air that surrounded Ronaldo there was an understanding that he was going to the World Cup more for the experience than to be a real part of the team watching from the bench as Romario’s goals secured Brazil their fourth world crown was confirmation that the future belonged to him but everyone knew it would not be for long Ronaldo was already looking ahead to his next move – he had said as much in the press Ronaldo was already set on making rapid progress towards the very top he said that Romario had recommended he sign for PSV by telling Romario that he would break his records in the Eredivisie one of the clubs who had turned him down not long before Ronaldo dribbled around the goalkeeper to score and earn his team a 1-1 draw it was his 56th goal in 58 games for the club in a little over a year As Careca says: “It’s not any old player who can do that.” 120 times what they had paid Pitta and Martins just over a year prior “That was a lot of money for a club like Cruzeiro at the time,” says journalist Galvao “It was enough to pay off all their bills and money they owed they shouldn’t sell him.’ Maybe they could have asked to keep a percentage of a future transfer fee “It was good business for both [Ronaldo and Cruzeiro] he scored goals and won titles and brought money in.” is also how Ronaldo viewed his time in Belo Horizonte but Galvao says the word idol is too strong Despite his success and the fond memories of those who played and lived alongside him Ronaldo never created a particularly affectionate relationship with the city or club He never made any promises about returning to finish off his career there nor does he talk about that period a great deal That is not to say that the time spent at Sao Cristovao and Cruzeiro was not a crucial spell in Ronaldo’s formation as a player and man As Alfredo Sampaio and others who know him say “Ronaldo always put his career ahead of everything else,” Galvao says He cared about whether he was going to play and whether he was going to earn money That’s the way he was since he was young.” The attitude took Ronaldo to the very summit of the world game saw him twice return from knee injuries that could have ended his career and has made him a successful businessman too runs a renowned sports marketing agency and part-owns Real Valladolid “I haven’t seen him for years,” Sampaio says I was the manager of Vasco da Gama and we went to play a tournament in Dubai He said I was the first person who believed in him as a player His life is very busy but if I do meet him we’ve always maintained a good relationship.” who now runs a social project called Centro de Oportunidade ao Talento that uses sport to help children from disadvantaged communities stay away from gangs and drugs says it would be a dream if he could get his old mate to come and visit the kids he works with and that he hopes to make the visit happen at some point in the coming year The kids would perhaps see something of themselves in Ronaldo’s story Nobody expected he would become what he did Each time he scored a goal or won a trophy I felt that I had played some part in his story “He had his dreams.” With a leg up from Sao Cristovao and Cruzeiro READ NEXT: Gigi Simoni: I never asked Ronaldo to run, he just needed to play TRY A QUIZ: Can you name every member of Brazil’s 2002 World Cup squad? 5 top footballers we can’t believe are still awaiting their first major honour 9 footballers who refused to celebrate after 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equalise The same could be said of the match against Sliema Wanderers the Blues managed to hold the Brazilians to a 0-0 draw Sao Cristavao ambled through the first period but Sliema struck back after the interval in a final rally which nearly produced a winner The match against the MFA XI was a great disappointment The Maltese produced an inept performance which had the home crowd moaning and groaning They resorted to the slow handclap as a sign of disapproval which was so popular in those days the Brazilians enjoyed their best game of the tourney They played some dazzling football and had their finishing been as sharp as their ball control than one shudders to think what the final score would have been It is difficult to find a Maltese player who came out with flying colours The newspapers singled out Ray Edwards as the best Maltese player on the field Edwards was able to cope with the brilliant Ivan and after the restart he came to his side’s rescue with several timely interventions there was a period when it looked as though the locals were going to make a game of it There were one or two attempts at goal but these efforts were easily dealt with by the Brazilians’ defence Sao Cristovao were already 2-0 up at half-time Indio took a free-kick from just outside the penalty area and MFA XI goalkeeper Alamango dived late Alamango had no fault in the other two goals The second came eight minutes before the interval when Arlindo beat Zammit and pulled the ball back for the unmarked Indio to crash home from close range Just before the Brazilians got their third Salvinu Schembri took a corner from the left and Pullu Demanuele headed down to Sammy Nicholl who took his chance well only for goalkeeper Hello to stick out a foot and clear The Brazilians’ third goal was a brilliant solo effort by Arlindo He won the ball on the right and danced his way past full-back Johnnie Alamango Edwards and Lolly Debattista before firing past Alamango the Maltese had a couple of 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