Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kobe, Japan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 45,000. It was built in 1985.
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Stade de la Revolution in Brazzaville is the national stadium of the Republic of the Congo. It is used for football matches and also has an athletics track. it holds 50,000.
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Faurot Field, also known as Memorial Stadium, is a stadium in Columbia, Missouri. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the University of Missouri Tigers.
The stadium is a typical horseshoe-shaped stadium, with seating added on in the “open” endzone. The horseshoe is completed by a grass berm in the curved end. The berm is famous for the giant block “M” made of painted white stones located behind the endzone. There is a short buffer zone of shrubs placed between the field and the stands around the entire length of the horseshoe. It was originally known as Memorial Field, named as a memorial to the MU students and alumni who lost their lives in World War I. In 1972, it was renamed for longtime coach Don Faurot.
The stadium officially holds 62,000 people. Some media guides list the stadium capacity as high as 68,349. The attendance record is 75,298, set on October 4, 1980 as Missouri battled Penn State.
Kings Park Stadium, also known for sponsorship reasons as ABSA Stadium, is a football stadium in Durban, South Africa which was originally built in 1891 and extensively renovated in 1990. It has a capacity of 52,000, and is used for both football (soccer) and rugby. The stadium currently hosts the following teams:
* The Sharks in the Southern Hemisphere Super 14 rugby competition
* The Natal Sharks (not to be confused with the above) in South Africa’s main domestic rugby competition, the Currie Cup
* The Golden Arrows in the Premier Soccer League
Kings Park will no longer be a venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as a new 75,000 seater stadium will be constructed where the existing adjacent Kings Park Soccer Stadium stands.
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Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium is a baseball stadium in Omaha, Nebraska. It serves as the home of both the minor league Omaha Royals and the annual NCAA Division I College World Series.
Omaha Municipal Stadium was built in 1947, ready to host the single-A Omaha Cardinals for the 1948 season. The St. Louis Cardinals farm team was the first professional baseball team to call Omaha its home. During the next few years Rosenblatt would see several different teams play there. In 1969, the Kansas City Royals decided to move their triple-A franchise here, and it plays in Rosenblatt to the present day.
In 1964, the stadium was renamed to honor former Omaha mayor Johnny Rosenblatt, who was instrumental in bringing professional baseball as well as the College World Series to Omaha.
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Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a 2.5 mile (4 km) tri-oval race track facility with a seating capacity of 168,000 spectators. It hosts races of motor vehicles of various kinds, including go-karts, dirt bikes, motorcycles, sports cars, modified pickup trucks, and stock cars. The facility also includes a 3.56 mile (5.7 km) road course and a 180-acre infield, including the 29 acre Lake Lloyd.
NASCAR was founded by William France Sr. at Daytona Beach, Florida in 1947. The original premiere event in the series was held at the Daytona Beach Road Course. France began planning a new track for the premiere event in his fledgling series in 1953. On August 16, 1954 he signed a contract with city officials to create this new track that would become famous as the Daytona International Speedway. Ground was broken on November 25, 1957. The speedway opened on February 22, 1959 to a crowd of 41,000 people.
The NASCAR Championship’s most important race, the Daytona 500, is held annually at Daytona International Speedway. It is a 200-lap, 500 mile (805 km) stock car race. The list of Daytona 500 winners is very long dating back to the inaugural race in 1959, and includes “The King” Richard Petty, and Dale Earnhardt.
NASCAR, the premier stock car organization in the United States, holds some of its most important races on this track. These include competitions in its Craftsman Truck Series (where pickup trucks are raced), Busch Series (the stock car junior league), and Nextel Cup series. The Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is also held at Daytona.
The racing season begins at Daytona starting with the testing sessions. The year’s racing begins with the 24 Hours of Daytona race in the Grand American Sports Car series. Then the racing begins for the Nextel Cup with the Budweiser Shootout and the Gatorade Duel. The Craftsman Truck Series begins with the GM Flex Fuel 250. The Busch Series begins with the Hershey’s Kissables 300, and then it is back to the Nextel Cup in “The Great American Race,” the Daytona 500. The Nextel Cup also features the Pepsi 400 in July at Daytona.
It also contains an attraction called Daytona USA, where the winning car is placed for a whole year.
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Goodeok Baseball Stadium in Busan
Inauguration: 1973
Seats: 12,000
The Estádio do Bessa (now Estádio do Bessa XXI) is a football stadium located in the Boavista area of Porto, Portugal, used by Boavista FC.
Like other stadiums used in Euro 2004, the Bessa is a new ground, but built on top of the old stands, and each one of them was built at a time, which allowed Boavista to continue playing there. It cost €45′164′726 to build, from which €7′785′735 were supported from the Portuguese state, and has an all-seater capacity of 28′263. Plans for improvement actually existed before the organization of the Euro 2004 was given to Portugal in 1999, and by then the first works were already underway.
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The Frankenstadion was inaugurated in 1928 in Nuremberg as home stadium to the Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. It is located next to the Zeppelinfeld. In 1991 it recived its current name, before that it was known simply as the, Urban Stadium. It also neighbors the new Arena Nuernberg. The Stadium is planned to host five games of the 2006 World Cup. During the World-Cup Finals the stadium will be known as “FIFA World Cup Stadium Nuernberg”: On March 14 2006, the stadium was renamed for a period of five years in “easyCredit-Stadion”, after a financing product of the German bank Norisbank AG.
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