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BBC London is reporting that West Ham have won the backing of Olympic bosses in the battle for the right to call Olympic stadium home, after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, over Tottenham Hotspur. Olympic Park Legacy Company executives have decided the offer from the club - which would retain the athletics track - is better than Tottenham's ...

Houston Dynamo Stadium Launch Marketing Video from VISION Production Group on Vimeo. 'VISION Production Group is honored to be the official production partner for the Houston Dynamo for the launch of their new soccer stadium opening in 2012. VISION produced this video that opened up the ground-breaking event live on February 5th at the new venue ...

Five years after relocating from San Jose, the Houston Dynamo broke ground on their new stadium in the East End of Houston before a crowd of over 2000 people.  AEG president Tim Leiweke, co-owners Gabriel Brener, Oscar de la Hoya, MLS President Mark Abbott, Councilman James Rodriguez, County Judge Ed Emmett, and Dynamo president Chris Canetti, Mayor ...

Russia will host the 2018 FIFA Wold Cup, and many of the stadiums in the 13 host cities are being built from scratch.  The Kremlin has earmarked $4bn for sports over the next four years, with a further $10bn to be spent on infrastructure.   The World Cup is expected to be a big boost for the Russian economy, but the country still has to overcome ...

'BC Pavillion Corporation says construction on BC Place in Vancouver is one step closer to being finished after workers completed the installation of 36 masts on the new roof.' (more...)

A Night At The Emirates (1m30s) from Rohan Blair-Mangat on Vimeo. An artistic essay on Arsenal and Liverpool at Emirates Stadium.

Took the opportunity to head out to Rio Tinto Stadium yesterday (before the main event kicked off) to check out something a bit different in the world of Soccer Specific Stadiums, ISOC Racing's AMSOIL Chmapionship Snocross Series. Like any professional sports stadium in their off-seasons (and even in-season), the chance to host some type of event to ...

The rumors began trickling across Twitter last night, originating from a Chicago Cubs fansite, BleedCubbieBlue, that Manchester United may be exploring a summer friendly at Chicago's venerable Wrigley Field.  This wouldn't be the first time soccer has been played at "The Friendly Confines" - a young FC Uptown grew up watching the Chicago Sting at ...