In the Football Museum exhibit, the Rite of Passage room represents one of the saddest defeats in our history: the “Maracanazo”. In 1950, the men’s national team lost the World Cup final to Uruguay in the brand new and absolutely packed Maracanã. But this rooms tell the story of another rite of passage, which did not last only one day and that also left very deep scars in Brazilian sport, society, and culture: the four decades of prohibition of women’s football.