Surely the picture above is not some kind of metaphor for Missouri Governor-elect Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, shooting down a proposal for an MLS team in St. Louis that included a hefty chunk of public funding for a new stadium.
That would be ridiculous.
Greitens has once-and-for-all said that state funding will not be used for stadiums if he can help it.
Replacing a stadium that’s been around since 1898 was always going to be a difficult task for Tottenham’s ownership group, but ENIC International and chairman Daniel Levy appear to have gotten what is, for now, known as the Northumberland Development Project just right.
White Hart Lane, home to Tottenham Hotspur since 1899, was limited to a capacity of just over 36,000, and Spurs began exploring options for a new ground as far back as 2006.
There was a time when simply building a soccer specific stadium was setting the bar. Then came the era of enclosed-seaters around 20,000 following the same mold, like Sporting KC, Houston and Dallas. In today’s MLS world, a statement is needed in order to make an impact. Welcome to the "Purple Wall," MLS’s great new attraction.
Los estadios de fútbol se han convertido en las catedrales del siglo 21. Son lugares sagrados a los cuales los iniciados asisten para observar la única cosa que todos comprendemos: un partido de fútbol.
Sin embargo, observar un partido en uno de estos lugares particulares sería diferente a la mayoría de las experiencias que hayas tenido en otros estadios. Algunos están ubicados en condiciones extremas y otros tienen algunas peculiaridades que están más relacionadas con las reglas de campo en el béisbol.
Estos son 10 de los campos más extraños en el mundo del fútbol.