Stadium
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium was built in 1952. It is named after famous football referee, Tofik Bakhramov. Stadium built by German PoWs and constructed in the shape of C to honour Stalin, however it was renamed back to Tofik Bakhramov in 1993 after his death. FC Baku's home stadium is normally the Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, which has a capacity of 30,000 fans. The Tofik Bakhramov Stadium stadium is also used for the Azerbaijan national football team and Neftchi Baku. In 2008, FC Baku's president Hafiz Mammadov announced that a new stadium which will have a capacity of 10,000 fans will be built. The new stadium was expected to be finish 2010, but construction is currently on hold.
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)