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FC Barcelona Plans To Install $193K Heating System For Grass At Camp Nou Stadium05 / 17 / 13La Liga Champion Barcelona is planning nearly $2.5M in upgrades to its facilities during the offseason. As it does "every season, the club will replace Camp Nou stadium's grass field, but this year it will also install a heating system that the technicians consider the best solution," accordin... Tags: Europe, Facilities |
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Olympic Stadium's Future Nearly Set
EPL West Ham United "looks set" to move into London's Olympic Stadium, ensuring the venue "retains a prominent role in British sport once the memories of a golden Games begin to fade," according to Keith Weir of REUTERS. West Ham is "the best known" of four bidders competing for the Stadium and "app ...
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West Bengal Plans A Football Camp
The government of Indian state West Bengal "is planning to start a residential camp for budding footballers of Bengal," according to Archiman Bhaduri of TNN. State Sports Minister Madan Mitra said that the State Sports Council will "soon start off the procedure by picking up 500 footballers from eac ...
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Man City Set For New Training Complex
Manchester City has started work on a £100M ($162M) training complex that it hopes will "lead them to the top of the European game," according to Ian Ladyman of the London DAILY MAIL. Man City's "astonishing new complex" is being built on an 80-acre site across the road from the Etihad Stadium ...
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West Ham Pleads Case For Stadium
With final negotiations over the future of the Olympic Stadium entering a crucial stage, EPL West Ham United Vice Chair Karren Brady "has insisted that the club's proposal will deliver a lasting legacy," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. London Mayor Boris Johnson this week took "pers ...
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Sydney FC Moves To Larger Stadium
A-League club Sydney FC and its marquee recruit Alessandro Del Piero "have moved their second home match" of the season from the 45,000-seat Sydney Football Stadium to the 83,500-capacity former Olympic stadium, according to the AP. Team officials said Thursday that "turf replacement at the dow ...
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London-based Paragon Entertainment has won the contract to "design, develop and fit out" The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The project worth £4.8M ($7.7M) is to be delivered over the next 14 months ( STOCKMARKETWIRE.com, 9/12 ). ... The latest construction reports revealed that th ...
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WSG Unveils Exec Suites For Stadium
World Sport Group has launched the sale of 61 executive suites as part of the National Stadium Club membership program at the Singapore Sports Hub. National Stadium Club is the first corporate hospitality program of its kind in Singapore. As part of this program, 62 executives suites, including a VV ...
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Dubai Gets New Cricket Pitch
A new "top-class turf wicket" with a "lush green outfield" has been built in Dubai, according to K.R. Nayar of the GULF NEWS. The cricket ground is located at the Higher College of Technology Dubai Men's College Campus from an initiative by former cricketer Roop K Razdan. The FairGrounds Oval, as it ...
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New Golf Course To Hit Iran
Australian firm Pacific Coast Design is "underway with the construction of the first new golf course in Iran for 33 years," according to GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTURE. Developer TSI (Iranian Land) chose PCD to design the project, an int'l standard 18 hole course, plus a nine hole academy, near the town o ...
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Nurburgring Secures Races For '13
The German Automobile Association (ADAC) "signed an agreement with the operators of the Nurburgring racetrack that secures several races at the historic circuit in '13," according to Markus Lüttgens of MOTORSPORT-TOTAL.com. After a number of negative headlines in previous months, the Nurburgrin ...
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