The Rose Bowl is a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena, California. Its current official capacity is 92,542. The stadium is a National Historic Landmark.
The Rose Bowl was designed by architect Myron Hunt in 1921. His design was influenced by the Yale Bowl (New Haven, Connecticut, built 1914). The Rose Bowl was under construction from 1921-1922. The stadium was dedicated on January 1, 1923 when Penn State played USC.
Stadio Comunale di Torino is a multi-use stadium in Turin, Italy. It was built in 1933 for the 1934 FIFA World Cup, the first in Italy, and originally held 65,000 spectators. It was originally named Stadio Mussolini, after dictator Benito Mussolini. It was renamed the Stadio Communale after the Second World War. For many years it was home to Juventus and Torino Calcio before the Stadio Delle Alpi opened in 1990. The stadium was abandoned for several years, before being chosen as an Olympic venue. Much of the original structure was demolished in this rebuilding process.
The new version has 27,128 covered seats. The playing area is not roofed. It hosted the opening ceremony and will host the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics with the name Stadio Olimpico (’Olympic Stadium’). After the Olympic Games it will be renamed Stadio Grande Torino and it will be used as the home ground of local football team Torino Calcio.
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Independence Stadium is a stadium located at the Fairgrounds in Shreveport, Louisiana. Formerly known as State Fair Stadium, it is the site of the annual Independence Bowl post-season college football game, initially (1976) the Bicentennial Bowl. Prior to this, it was the home venue of the Shreveport Steamer of the short-lived World Football League (1974-75).
In 1994-5, Independence Stadium was home to the Shreveport Pirates of the Canadian Football League, which was undergoing US expansion at the time. The team ultimately failed due to low attendance.
In the late 1990s, the stadium was expanded from approximately 40,000 to 50,000 capacity as part of a grander upgrade plan that improved all aspects of the facility, from concourses to playing surface.
Independence Stadium was considered as a possible playing site for the New Orleans Saints in the 2005-2006 National Football League season, but has since lost out to the bigger venues like the San Antonio Alamodome in Texas and Louisiana State University’s Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.
Estadio Governador Alberto Tavares Silva, also known as Albertão is a multi-use stadium in Teresina, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 60,000. The stadium is owned by the government of Piauí state and is named after Alberto Tavares Silva, who was Piauí governor between 1971 and 1975.
It was built in 1973, and inaugurated on August 26 of that year. Eight people died during the stadium’s inauguration, after a tumult.
The inaugural match was played on August 26, 1973, when Tiradentes and Fluminense drew 0-0.
The first goal of the stadium was scored on August 29, 1973, by Cruzeiro’s Dirceu Lopes, when Tiradentes and Cruzeiro drew 1-1.
The stadium’s attendance record currently stands at 60,271, set on March 13, 1983, when Flamengo beat Tiradentes 3-1.
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Sapporo Dome is a stadium in Sapporo, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball and football (soccer), and is the home field of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in baseball and Consadole Sapporo in football.
Sapporo Dome opened in 2001 and holds 42,122 people. This stadium hosted some games during the 2002 World Cup.
Perhaps the Dome’s most unusual feature is that it has two entirely different playing surfaces. Baseball games are played on an artificial turf field, while football games are held on a grass pitch that slides into and out of the stadium as needed. Some other stadiums that feature sliding pitches are the Gelredome in the Netherlands and Veltins-Arena in Germany; however, unlike these two facilities, the Sapporo Dome has a fixed roof.
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Seats: 50 000
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Inauguration: 23.08.1995 (Belgia - Niemcy 1-2)
Address: Marathonlaan, 1020 Brussels
Lincoln Financial Field, familiarly known as The Linc, is the home stadium of the National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles. It has a seating capacity of 68,532. The stadium was named in June 2002 when Lincoln Financial Group paid $139.6 million for naming rights over the next 21 years. It is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and 10th Streets, closer to the area’s stretch of Interstate 95 than to Pattison.
The stadium replaced the old Veterans Stadium after over two years of construction. While its total capacity barely changed, the new stadium contained double the amount of luxury and wheelchair-accessible seats, along with the newer, more modern services. Like the Vet, Lincoln Financial Field has a jail inside the stadium, in this case one with four jail cells.
The Boleyn Ground is the official name of the football stadium of West Ham United. The club moved to the location in 1904 and rented ground from the London District of Upton Park who were using Green Street House as a school. Green Street House was known locally as Boleyn Castle because of its imposing nature and an association with Anne Boleyn (she had either stayed at, or some believe, owned the house). Hence renting the grounds of “Boleyn Castle” the name Boleyn Ground came into being. Today the ground is more often called Upton Park after the area of London in which it is located.
The stadium has a total capacity of 35,647 all seated. The stadium was subject to considerable redevelopment during the 1990s:
* 1993: South Terrace replaced by a new 9,000 seat, two tier stand named after Bobby Moore. The stand also incorporates executive boxes.
* 1995: North Terrace replaced by a new 6,000 seat, two tier stand named the ‘Centenary Stand’. The East Lower terrace (the ‘Chicken Run’) made all seater.
* 2001: West Stand replaced by a new 15,000 seat, two tier stand named the ‘Dr. Martens Stand’. The stand also incorporates executive boxes on two levels.
Plans have been submitted to increase the capacity to approximately 40,500 through replacement of the East Stand. This will result in a fully enclosed stadium by joining the new stand to the Centenary Stand and the Bobby Moore stand. Relegation to the Football League Championship in 2003 resulted in the development being delayed. However promotion to the FA Premier League via the Play-offs in May 2005 resulted in the immediate re-submission of plans to Newham Council. The timing of the development is now dependent upon the club establishing itself again as a regular member of the top league in English football.
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The Zentralstadion (Central Stadium), located in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany is the home of FC Sachsen Leipzig. The club is currently playing in the Upper League-South.
In 1956 the first Zentralstadion opened, at the time it was the biggest stadium in Germany being able to hold 100,000 spectators. However, over the years it fell in to disuse and was costing the city too much to maintain. In 1997 the city of Leipzig decided to build a new stadium within the old stadium, a modern state of the art stadium only for football. The new stadium was built from December 2000 till March of 2004. The Zentralstadion will host 4 group matches and 1 last 16 game in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
There are bridges built over the old stadium to connect with the new stadium. The roof has an integrated floodlight design and is designed to provide supierior acoustics. The lawn size is 80×120, the actual playing field is 68×105. It has been integrated into the area surronding the stadium by large amounts of trees and other greenery.
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West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English football club formed by workers from Salter’s Spring Works in West Bromwich, West Midlands in 1878. It currently plays in the FA Premier League.
This famous football club was one of the original founder members of the Football League. Although not as fashionable as some other English football teams, over the years ‘The Albion’ has made a great contribution to football. It was the first English team to play in Russia and then a couple of decades later the first English team to play in China. During the Chinese tour, midfielder John Trewick was asked what he thought of the Great Wall, his famous reply was “Once you’ve seen one wall, you’ve seen them all”.
Their original nickname,’The Throstles’ originated because they had a thrush on their shirt badges. The more colloquial nickname and the more popular one is ‘The Baggies’. There are several theories for how this name may have originated, a popular one being that the team wore unfashionably long shorts at one stage.
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