It’s been an incredibly turbulent reign for Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley and you have to wonder how the supporters are going to react to news that St. James’ Park has been renamed “sportsdirect.com @ St. James’ Park Stadium”.
Brazil’s state development bank BNDES said it will provide up to 4.8 billion reais (US$2.77 billion) for work on the 12 stadia that will stage matches in the 2014 World Cup, despite a promise from organisers that public funds would only be needed for infrastructure. (more…)
RedBull Arena rolled out the grass this morning.
Check out what the outside of RedBull Arena in Harrison, NJ currently looks like after the jump (cool).
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has written a letter to the Maryland Stadium Authority asking the agency to study the possibility of building a new soccer stadium for DC United.
The city became warm to the idea after the 71,000-seat M&T Bank Stadium hosted a sold out soccer friendly in July between A.C. Milan and Chelsea, Millard said.
I’m not sure if this is a sneak peek of a new Roma stadium, a presentation of what it could look like, or possibly some sort of multimedia effort to garner support for building it. But they have succeeded in doing something, I’m just not entirely sure what.
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Completed on August 29th and located in Donetsk Ukrain, this home to FC Shakhtar Donetsk holds 51,000 and will host Euro 2012 matches.
