at a glance

rio de janeiro's prefecture, through the instituto pereira passos, makes data and statistics about  the district of  mangueira available on this link, including data on land (território e meio ambiente), population (população) housing (domicílios), health (saúde), education (educação), buildings (imóveis), and infrastructure (infraestrutura).

Presented by the Universidade Castelo Branco, the studyAvaliação dos efeitos do treinamento em crianças futebolísticas da Vila Olímpica da Mangueira   (Evaluation of the effects of training in children practicing field soccer from Mangueira Olympic Center), by Maria de Nazaré Dias Portal,  João Bittencourt da Silva, Alan Saraiva, Gerson da Cruz Monte Júnior, Ligia Gisely dos Santos Chaves, Antonio Maria do Amaral, Antonio José da Silva, Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas, evaluates the difference, after 12 weeks of training, on the development of the physical qualities of two groups of children practicing soccer at Mangueira Olympic Center.

Both groups were in the third stage of biological maturation, and were subject to two different methodologies during the stage of basic formation: the traditional and the maturational.