Laos National Stadium, or Chao Anouvong Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Vientiane, Laos. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. The National Stadium is located at the intersection of Khounboulom and Le Ky Huong streets in central Vientiane, less than 1 km northwest of the Presidential Palace and adjacent to the Vientiane Tennis Club. An office of the Lao National Olympic Committee can be found at the stadium, and there are several practice facilities for athletes. A small sporting goods shop on Khounboulom street sells national jerseys. until 2009 the stadium was used as the national stadium. The current national stadium is the New Laos National Stadium.
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or stadium:
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“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)