Editing Recife (section)

== Sports ==
[[File:Calçadão e ciclovia da Praia de Boa Viagem - Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.jpg|280px|thumb|right|Bicycle path in Boa Viagem Beach.]]
{{See also|2014 FIFA World Cup|Sports in Brazil}}
Football in [[Pernambuco]] began in 1902, when English and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] sailors landed in Recife and played a game of football on the beach. The new game aroused the interest of the people of Pernambuco, and they soon started playing.

Recife provides visitors and residents with various sporting activities. There are several football clubs based in Recife, such as [[Sport Club do Recife|Sport Recife]] the current 2023 State Champion (43 times state champion and once national champion (1987) and Brazil's Cup champion (2008)), [[Santa Cruz Futebol Clube|Santa Cruz]] (29 times state champion) and [[Clube Náutico Capibaribe|Náutico]] (23 times state champion and unique 6 consecutives). The [[Campeonato Pernambucano]] (Pernambuco's State Championship) is divided into Taça Revolução and Taça Confederação.

Also, the city has traditions in another sports as:
Basketball, Hockey, Golf, Tenis, Table tennis, Volleyball, beach volley, Handball, Surf, Skateboard, Bodysurf, Swimning pool and Futsal. Provided by clubs such as:
Nautico, Sport, Santa Cruz, Portuguese Club of Recife, Caxanga Golf & Country Club, Mauricio de Nassau University, School of Tenis Recife as others.

===1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cup===
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Recife was one of the 12 cities chosen to host games for the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]], for which Brazil was the host nation. The [[Recife metropolitan area|Metropolitan Recife]] project consisted of a new Sports City constructed in [[São Lourenço da Mata]] in an intersection area near to Recife, [[Jaboatão dos Guararapes]] and [[Camaragibe]]. The new Sports complex is {{convert|19|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Recife city centre and {{convert|19|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the Airport.

The sports complex 'City'<ref>[https://archive.today/20110106193623/http://200.238.107.167/web/portalpe/exibirartigo?companyId=communis.com.br&articleId=16353 Recife Sports City 2014 in Pernambuco State site (Portuguese)]</ref> was constructed with a [[Itaipava Arena Pernambuco|new stadium]] with 45,000 seats, 9,000 flats, 6,000 car parking spaces, 1 hospital, 1 technical school, 1 shopping centre, 1 integrated metro/bus station and improvement of federal roads, all with an estimated cost of R$1.6&nbsp;billion.

This was the second time Recife has been chosen to be one of the host cities of the [[FIFA World Cup]]. In [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950]], Recife hosted just one game, between [[Chile]] and the United States, at Ilha do Retiro Stadium. At this time, it was the only city to represent the [[Northeast Region, Brazil|Northeast]] of Brazil.