For the Middlesbrough F.C. stadium, see Riverside Stadium Estádio José Pinheiro Borda, better known as Estádio Beira-Rio, or Gigante da Beira-Rio or 🍎 simply Beira-Rio, (Portuguese pronunciation: [esˈtadʒiu ˈbejɾɐ ˈʁiu], Riverside Stadium) due to its location beside the Guaíba River, is a football 🍎 stadium in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It serves as the home stadium for Sport Club Internacional, replacing their 🍎 previous stadium, the Estádio dos Eucaliptos. It is named after José Pinheiro Borda (1897–1965), an elderly Portuguese engineer who supervised the 🍎 building of the stadium but died before seeing its completion. |
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