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    Qatar Building $20 Mln (US) Underground Stadium For 2011 Asian Cup

    http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/ne....php?id=292217

    DOHA, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- Construction work has started on the world's first underground stadium which Qatar is building for the 2011 Asian Cup football tournament.

    The US$20 million all-weather stadium resembles an open laptop computer and covers an area of 200,000 square meters.

    According to Dr Athanasios Batsilas, who is Qatar Football Association technical director, the new stadium was slated for completion in 2009 and would be put to use in 2010.

    "You won't not see any light towers around this new stadium. This is the unique part of this wonderful project. However, we shall have lights integrated inside the stadium which can house around 10,000 to 11,000 people," Dr Batsilas was quoted as saying in an interview with local daily The Peninsula.

    "We'll have the latest audio and video technology inside the stadium. The public will have easy access to the stadium from seven roads leading into the underground car park," Batsilas added. Doha, host of the 15th Asian Games in December 2006, is currently home to the world's largest indoor sports facility -- the Aspire Dome which is part of the sprawling 240ha Aspire Zone which was known as the Doha Sports City during the Games.

    In July, the Asian Football Confederation awarded Qatar the rights to host the 2011 Asian Cup, making the tiny Gulf state only the second country other than Iran to host the tournament for a second time. Qatar first hosted the Asian Cup in 1988.

    The new stadium is fuelling talk of a bid to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup Finals, amid the euphoria of Qatar's ambitious "Doha 2016" campaign for the rights to host the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.

    #2
    dammit how come they use their money on these stuff and our country must spend the money on tokhmi felestin???this is not fair! khak too sare IR

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      #3
      with such a tiny population to support, its bound to happen with all that wealth
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        #4
        Originally posted by Amir_Temur
        20 Million? that is gonna be one shitty stadium
        thats what I was thinnking




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          #5
          Good for Asian football.

          Qatar did an amazing job for the 2006 Asian Games, I have no doubt the Asian Cup will be just as successful.
          Please join and support Iran Rugby on Facebook.

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            #6
            Man 20 Million US dollars is like a piss in the bucket compared to some of the seadiums out there today. Why the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL are building a stadium worth OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS!

            Even colleges in America like Michigan State University just spent $50 million to renovate Spartan Stadium and add luxury boxes.

            $20M is NOTHING!

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              #7
              we all know that the bulk of their budget will go to buying off refs... free-kicks will turn into penalties.... thrown ins to corner kicks ....and so on etc..

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                #8
                Khaak to sareeh IR

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                  #9
                  guys US DOLLAR in qatar could be worth a lot more... maybe $20 mil is equivalent to some big number here, you know that' what i just think.

                  but that'll be cool thought "worlds firsts underground stadium"... at the end of the day they are getting a brand new stadium and we are still stock with our beloved Aryamehr Stadium (Azadi)

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                    #10
                    wembley cost 700+ million pounds

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Ghormeh Sabzi View Post
                      guys US DOLLAR in qatar could be worth a lot more... maybe $20 mil is equivalent to some big number here, you know that' what i just think.
                      but that'll be cool thought "worlds firsts underground stadium"... at the end of the day they are getting a brand new stadium and we are still stock with our beloved Aryamehr Stadium (Azadi)
                      In Qatar all the workers are from India and Pakistan and get paid 100$ per month its not like in the U.S where workers have unions and get paid 25$ per hour. by building stadiums with very cheap labor they save a lot of money.

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                        #12
                        what r u guys talkin id be happy if IR built a 15 m stadium
                        WE ARE THE UNDER DOGS

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by persiangodfather View Post
                          what r u guys talkin id be happy if IR built a 15 m stadium
                          id be happy if IR built a stadium

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                            #14
                            I'd be happy if IR was a stadium.
                            I went to Sharif University. I'm a superior genetic mutation, an improvement on the existing mediocre stock.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by 1Heesham1 View Post
                              we all know that the bulk of their budget will go to buying off refs... free-kicks will turn into penalties.... thrown ins to corner kicks ....and so on etc..
                              lol the sad thing is IT'S TRUE or they will buy African players.

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