Rosenery Mello do Nascimento
Rosenery Mello do Nascimento, best known by the stage name Rosenery Mello, was a Brazilian celebrity and model also known as "Fogueteira do Maracanã". During a football World Cup qualifier in 1989 between the national teams of Brazil and Chile at Maracanã Stadium, Mello threw a firework, which landed about a yard away from Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas. Rojas then deliberately cut himself with a razor hidden in his glove in a failed attempt to have the match awarded to Chile. The event became known as El Maracanazo.
In November 1989, Mello was on the cover of men's magazine Playboy. She died of a brain aneurysm on 4 June 2011, age 45, in Rio de Janeiro.
