Manager Alex Oliveira, standing second from right, gives his team, Combatente, a pep talk during halftime of an amateur league game at the "Big Zero" Stadium, on the equator in Macapa, capital of the Brazilian state of Amapa, Dec. 1, 2004. One half of the stadium is in the Northern Hemisphere, the other in the Southern Hemisphere.

Manager Alex Oliveira, standing second from right, gives his team, Combatente, a pep talk during halftime of an amateur league game at the "Big Zero" Stadium, on the equator in Macapa, capital of the Brazilian state of Amapa, Dec. 1, 2004. One half of the stadium is in the Northern Hemisphere, the other in the Southern Hemisphere.