"My new book O Campo, or in its translation The Field, is a photographic compilation of football fields in Brazilian cities. The images were taken via satellite and they show the rather oddly shaped football pitches that seem to be built wherever possible – the desire for playing the game has clearly surpassed and ignored the limitations of natural topography and FIFA’s laws of the game. According to the official rules and regulations (which are included in the book as an epilogue) you would not be allowed to play football on any of these fields. However, the careers of many of the world’s best football players began on these very same fields despite their askew angles, odd proportions, mis-shapen border lines and pitch markings. Studying the architectual contexts of these fields we get an idea about the social context where these players come from." - Joachim Schmid

Many of the stadiums and venues from the 2004 Athens Olympics are now lying abandoned, unused since the Games and symbolic of the disfunctional Greek economy.

Nagyon kíváncsi vagyok hogy a VB után mi lesz ezekkel a hatalmas stadionokkal. Mivel nem hiszem hogy gyakran vannak 50.000 egy dél afrikai bajnokin szerintem szép lassan hagyják őket szétrohadni. Minek olyan országba EB/VB, ahol utána nem tudják hasznosítani a stadionokat?

Lengyelek is túlméretezték szerintem a pályákat, átlagnézőszámok sok többszöröse az új "arénák" befogadóképessége...
Néhány aktuális kép a Poznań-i építkezésről: http://www.lechpoznan.pl/mod,7718,galerie,ga,1488.htm