Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fire ravaged a temporary dormitory early Friday at a Brazilian training center for young soccer players run by one of South America’s most prominent teams, killing at least 10 people in a disaster that reverberated through the soccer world and beyond.
The fire in the dormitory, which may have been constructed improperly on what was intended to be a parking lot, was the latest in a string of seemingly preventable tragedies that have convulsed Brazil over the past two weeks.
It struck the training center of the Flamengo club in Rio de Janeiro, breaking out in the early morning when many youth players, ages 14 to 17, were asleep.