Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, better known as Estádio do Maracanã (named after a bird living in this region), is the most important soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro. It was where Germany won the world cup in 2014, but it was also the place for one of the worst events in Brazilian soccer history: Brazil lost against Uruguay in the final of the world cup of 1950. Brazilians refer to this game as the Maracanaço.
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Wolfsburg, Germany is a town in lower saxony founded officially as the Stadt des ‘Kraft durch Freude’-Wagens nahe Fallersleben for only one purpose: building cars. Volkswagen, the partly state-owned enterprise tries to make the city more worth living and has therefore built the Volkswagen Arena, home to the (Volkswagen supported) Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg.
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“The cup has its own rules”, we say when talking about the cup of the German football association (DFB-Pokal). In first round of 2014, my team had to play the Fussballverein Illertissen – an amateur team of the Regionalliga Bayern, located close to Ulm. As their own stadium was too small, they rented the Donaustadium, home to the SSV Ulm.
Something absolutely worth being put on your list is a visit to Madison Square Garden (“The Garden“, MSG) – a stadium for different sports and a concert hall in the center of Manhattan. It names itself “The World’s Most Famous Arena“, dates back to the year 1874 and is home to the New York Rangers (NHL), New York Knicks (NBA) and New York Liberty (WNBA).
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The Allianz-Arena is the most important soccer stadium in Munich, Germany. In fact it is a gigantic temple for soccer and home to the two major clubs in München; the TSV 1860 München and the FC Bayern München. 75.000 supporters can find a place here and watch matches with an absolutely gorgeous view.
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The Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf, Germany (sponsored name: “ESPRIT arena”) is a multifunctional arena which is pretty young: It has been built between 2002 und 2004. It is home to the soccer club Fortuna Düsseldorf – currently once again in the first German league – and offers space for 54.600 supporters.
The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza – also called San Siro – is a famous soccer stadium in Milano, Italy. The clubs Football Club Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan) and Associazione Calcio Milano (AC Milan) play here in front of up to 80000 spectators. Continue reading “San Siro”
If you want to watch soccer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany you’ll have to walk through a forest: the now called Commerzbank-Arena was named Waldstadion (stadium in the forest) in earlier days. It is the soccer stadium of Eintracht Frankfurt and is sometimes also used for ice hockey. Continue reading “Into the woods”
When you want to see the 1. FC Köln play soccer or watch goat Hannes (their mascot) jumping around you shouldn’t be afraid of heights. The RheinEnergieStadion or Müngersdorfer Stadion in Köln, Germany has very steep visitor stands – but therefore guarantees good views. Continue reading “Like on a mountain”
The Stadio olimpico is a multi-sport arena in Roma, Italy used especially by the soccer clubs Associazione Sportiva Roma S.p.A. (AS Roma) and Società Sportiva Lazio S.p.A. (Lazio Roma) which opened in 1932 and has space for up to 72000 visitors. It was used for different Olympic Games, soccer club championships and international soccer championships.
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