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Chapter 1
New home
Atletico Madrid’s 120,000 club members recently had to move across town to their brand-new stadium, the Wanda Metropolitano. The relocation has also upset decades of ingrained sensibilities across the city map. We find out more.
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Chapter 2
The Float
Andrew Mueller tells us the story of the Float, the world’s largest floating football pitch.
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Chapter 3
Lessons from South Africa
Eight years ago, South Africa hosted the Fifa World Cup across nine of its cities. It was a huge logistical undertaking in a continent that had never hosted a sporting event on such a scale. But what were the World Cup’s lasting effects on the country’s urban environments?
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Chapter 4
Bezigrad Stadium
Ljubljana’s Bezigrad Stadium is an unusual venue. Designed by Joze Plecnik, it is one of the few stadiums in world football built before the Second World War. But the stadium has been derelict since 2008 and development plans have come to nothing.
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