Santiago Bernabéu
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Estadio Santiago Bernabéu is a football stadium in the Chamartín distric of Madrid, Spain. It was inaugurated on December 14, 1947 and is owned by the Real Madrid football club. With a capacity of 80,354 spectators in 2007, it was named as a UEFA Elite Five-Star Stadium in 2007.
The Bernabéu is one of the world’s most famous and prestigious venues. It hosted the European Cup final three times, in 1957, 1969 and 1980, and is scheduled to host the 2010 final. The finals for the 1964 European Nations’ Cup and the 1982 World Cup have also been held at the Bernabéu.
Santiago Bernabéu after 2000
When Florentino Perez became the president of Real Madrid, was launched on the Master Plan called Santiago Bernabeu stadium, with one goal: To improve the comfort of the stadium and the quality of its facilities, and maximise revenue from the stadium.
This invested 127,000,000 euros in five years (2001-2006) between the cover and highlighted the expansion of the East Side, the new facade on Father Damien, new costumes, new boxes and VIP areas, a new stage in honour of the East Side, a new press area also located on the East Side, new audio system, new bars, placement of heat in the stands, panoramic lifts, new restaurants, escalators in the towers access and implementation of the multipurpose building in the street Father Damien, who will be more macrotienda football and offices for the club.
Following the enlargement of the lateral East and the creation of the creation of new galleries, the capacity of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is 80,354 spectators, all seated.
To capitalise further on the stage, created the Tour of Bernabeu, where any amateur can enjoy all the corners of the stadium.
In 2002 and 2004, the stadium was the subject of separate terrorist attacks by the errorist organisation ETA, was held to mourn any human or material damage.
In 2007, the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium was the 1000 league games took place. In addition, the latest revision of UEFA on October 24, 2007, on the occasion of the match Champions League against Olympiyacos FC, served as a final step in the procedures were underway to give the category of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium Elite Five-Star Stadium status on November 14, 2007, a month before the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the inauguration of the stadium, Uefa announced that the club will officially rename the five-star stadium.
The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez, proposed construction of a retractable roof before he resigned in 2005. The construction has not yet started.
Location
The Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is located in the Paseo de la Castellana in the Chamartin district. It occupies the block bounded by the Paseo de la Castellana and the streets of Concha Espina, Padre Damian, and Rafael Salgado.
The stadium has its own Madrid Metro station along the 10 line called Santiago Bernabéu. Its location, in the heart of Madrid’s business district, is quite unusual for a football stadium.
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Camp Nou
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The Camp Nou often erroneously called the “Nou Camp” (in both Spanish and English) is a football stadium in Barcelona, Spain. The stadium has been the home of FC Barcelona since its construction in 1957. It is a UEFA 5-star rated stadium, and has hosted numerous international matches at senior level, and UEFA Champions League finals, the most recent being in 1999. It has a capacity of 98,772, making it the largest stadium in Europe, and the eleventh largest in the world. Its official name was Estadi del FC Barcelona (FC Barcelona Stadium) until 2000, when the club membership voted to change the official name to the popular nickname, Camp Nou.
Across Camp Nou is the Palau Blaugrana, the stadium for indoor sports and adjacent is the Ice Rink, the stadium for ice-based sports. Just behind the complex is the Mini Estadi, the stadium where the FC Barcelona Atlètic plays its games.
Camp Nou History
By the early 1950s, Barcelona had outgrown its old stadium, Camp de Les Corts which had held 60,000 supporters. The Camp Nou, built between 1954 and 1957, was designed by architects Francesc Mitjans-Miró, Lorenzo García Barbon and Josep Soteras Mauri. FC Barcelona won their first game at Camp Nou in impressive fashion, a 4-2 victory against Legia Warsaw, with Eulogio Martínez scoring the first goal at the new stadium. Over 90,000 fans were present at this momentous occasion.
The stadium capacity has varied, opening at 93,053, but growing to 105,000 for the 1982 FIFA World Cup. With the outlawing of standing sections at the stadium in the late 1990s, its capacity settled to just below 99,000.
The facilities include a memorabilia shop, mini pitches for training matches, and a chapel for players. The stadium also houses the most visited museum in Catalonia, El Museu del Barça, which receives about 1,200,000 visits a year. The museum was inaugurated in 1984 under the presidency of Josep Lluís Nuñez. The museum shows 1,420 pieces of FC Barcelona’s history, of which 420 are trophies. The inauguration ceremony of the 1982 World Cup was held on June 13. In front of a 100,000-strong crowd, Belgium beat Argentina 1-0.
Events
Camp Nou hosted musical performances and other non-football events. Artists who have performed at the stadium include:
- Pink Floyd
- Michael Jackson
- U2
- Bruce Springsteen
- Frank Sinatra
- Julio Iglesias
- Sting, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Youssou N’Dour, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel and El Último de la Fila at the Amnesty International’s Concert for Human Rights
- The Three Tenors: José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti
- José Carreras
- Montserrat Caballé
- Lluís Llach
Pope John Paul II celebrated mass with a congregation of over 120,000 at Camp Nou on November 17, 1982.
