Flavio Augusto da Silva, the majority-owner of Orlando City Soccer Club, is more excited than anyone for Orlando City’s new soccer-specific stadium. But at the seat installation ceremony on Thursday, Silva revealed that this is not the first soccer stadium he has built.
“I grew up in a very poor area of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil; the name of the neighborhood is Jabour. This place is surrounded by many slums, very poor neighborhood; a lot of crimes,” Flavio explained. “And when I was 8 to11 years old, the thing that I liked to do the most was play soccer.