Have you ever watched a soccer match before? People run onto the pitch all the time. It happened plenty of times at Euro (including a guy going up to Ronaldo and taking a selfy) and they were supposed to have top of the line security there.
The wave looked great on TV. Too bad the sound was 5 seconds off on ESPN.
I was actually impressed by the ammount of people that showed up for this game. Any time you get over 100,000 for an exhibition soccer match (without Ronaldo, Bale and most top stars) is great. Also, as John Champion mentioned on the telecast, this was the largest crowd ever to watch a Chelsea match (111 years of history).
The only college football stadiums that had enough room for a FIFA soccer pitch were Stanford and the Rose Bowl. That's because of those stadiums at one point had an athletic track around. The Rose Bowl was a track cycling venue for the 1932 Olympics.
Posted by Bando in 2014:
Not sure if the link is going to work, but from a 1990 issue of the Michigan Alumnus, discussing the 1994 World Cup committee coming to Ann Arbor to scout locations:
"Michigan Stadium would need to be modified however to meet World Cup specifications. The field would need to be widened and the AstroTurf replaced with natural grass. One conceivable way of doing this would be to raise the field with scaffolding and cover the first eight rows. Of course the field would have to be removed in time for our American football season."
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Have you ever watched a soccer match before? People run onto the pitch all the time. It happened plenty of times at Euro (including a guy going up to Ronaldo and taking a selfy) and they were supposed to have top of the line security there.
The wave looked great on TV. Too bad the sound was 5 seconds off on ESPN.
I was actually impressed by the ammount of people that showed up for this game. Any time you get over 100,000 for an exhibition soccer match (without Ronaldo, Bale and most top stars) is great. Also, as John Champion mentioned on the telecast, this was the largest crowd ever to watch a Chelsea match (111 years of history).
The only college football stadiums that had enough room for a FIFA soccer pitch were Stanford and the Rose Bowl. That's because of those stadiums at one point had an athletic track around. The Rose Bowl was a track cycling venue for the 1932 Olympics.
Posted by Bando in 2014:
Not sure if the link is going to work, but from a 1990 issue of the Michigan Alumnus, discussing the 1994 World Cup committee coming to Ann Arbor to scout locations:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NwDiAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA16&lpg=RA4-PA16&d...
Pertinent quote:
"Michigan Stadium would need to be modified however to meet World Cup specifications. The field would need to be widened and the AstroTurf replaced with natural grass. One conceivable way of doing this would be to raise the field with scaffolding and cover the first eight rows. Of course the field would have to be removed in time for our American football season."
That changes everything, now I actually like it.
I wonder if Nike picked the historic font or if it's just coincidence.