Well you didnt make it very clearly then, or not to me anyway. It read to me like you were suggesting a team should move around but then also have a stadium that they use as default. And do countries really have more than one national stadium? Surely that is an oxymoron. And why not merge? I didnt change any of the content.
I'm saying to TheCasual that teams with national stadiums still play at other stadia, as he is suggesting England shouldn't play at other stadia as well because Wembley is our national stadium.
I guess different people have different definitions of what a National Stadium. To me it's a stadium use for Cup Finals and National Team games. Not other club games. Spain even move there cup finals around the country.
England matches went on tour when the new stadium was being built and the result was that, for a change, most of the games had a passion and atmosphere about them that is nearly always lacking at Wembley, which, sometimes, feels like a millstone around the players' necks, rather than a home advantage. Take it on the road.
It also means people other than those living in London and the South East can get to a game without having to remortgage the ****ing house.
The Bernabeu is not a national stadium. Neither is he Maracana. Holland don't have a national stadium,mthoughnthrybdo have an Olympic Stadium.
The Bernabeu is not officially the national stadium, but they do play almost all their competitive games there.
Wembley is good when full, but when half empty like any other ground the atmosphere is not there. Much better to have full stadiums and move it around the country.
That isn't strictly correct. They play a lot of games elsewhere. They often used to switch important games to Valentin because of the atmosphere there and the spectators banked up high close to the pitch. "Spain does not have a national stadium as such, though major qualifying matches are usually played at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid. Other large grounds used include the Estadio Vicente Calderón, also in Madrid, and the Mestalla in Valencia. Spain are unbeaten in competitive matches played at the Calderón. Some international friendlies are played in these larger stadia, as well as the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in Seville. Other friendly matches, as well as qualifying fixtures against smaller opponents, are played in provincial stadia. The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign included matches at El Molinón in Gijón,the Iberostar Stadium in Palma de Mallorca, and the Estadio Carlos Belmonte in Albacete". There was a plan to use a stadium built in Seville as a national stadium but it fell through. It is called the Olympic Stadium despite the failure of Seville' bid, though it was originally built for the European Athletics Championships. For a while it meant Seville was the only city in Europe with three 50,000+ Stadiums. Hardly used as neither Seville team wanted to I've in. Anyone surprised by the lack of games in Barcelona? Portugal has a national stadium but I bet most people, especially younger ones,wouldn't guess it without googling.
It's Catalonia, they want independence from Spain. Still, it is a little surprising how little they've played there in their history.
Which is why I put a question mark, indicating no one should be surprised. Though it was used in the World Cup in Spain. There was a hit of an outcry when due to unexpected results Brazil and Italy ended up playing at Espanyol's then rather decrepit stadium and all appeals to have it transferred to the Camp Mountain were turned down. Of course Barcelona fans considered this to be a plot against them involving the government and FIFA.
The Club Wembley nonsense means it never looks full even when it is. It's a beautiful piece of architecture but it's become emblematic of everything that many people hate about modern football.
Should move the camera to the other side then the full stand will be shown like at the kc and others.
According to the interweb, they have multiple for different sports, but the one for football is the ANZ Stadium.
I'm afraid it isn't, Australia don't have a national football stadium, as BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR has intimated.
One was tentatively planned when the national capital was built( Canberra) but nothing eventuated. If Australia ever staged the Football World Cup the final would be at the Melbourne Cricket Ground because of its huge capacity(120,000). The A League Football grand final is not played on a neutral ground. The AFL grand final is played at the MCG and the NRL grand final at the Sydney Olympic Stadium(capacity 84,000). O/T. from this point! The NRL grand final this year was won last Sunday by South Sydney, a team which although being a foundation member(over105 years ago) and winning more grand finals than any other team was kicked out of the competition when Mr Murdoch tried to buy the game here around 2000. After numerous court battles and street protest marches(1 of nearly 50,000) they returned to the league after 2 years absence and ultimately were saved from liquidation by 2 multi-millionaires, one being Russell Crowe a lifelong fan. Each bought a 37.5% interest in the newly formed club leaving a 25% shareholding for the club members/fans. Significantly that 25% shareholding by the fans gave them control of Souths name,logo and colours. After the Grand Final win Crowe's other partner offered his 37.5% sharehoding for sale and it has been taken up by an Aus billionaire James Packer. Finally, the man of the match in the NRL final was a lad called Sam Burgess from Yorkshire(Dewsbury) who fractured his cheekbone and eye-socket in the first tackle of the match and played on to finish the game. Although numerous players from the UK have played over here it is only the 2nd time a UK player has won the prestigious MOM award(first in 1969 was from Wigan). Sam Burgess is code-hopping to Union and has signed a 3 year deal to play in England with Bath and hopes to play for England in the 2015 World Cup in the UK.
