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6 unusual facts about Stadion


Fritz-Walter-Stadion

It is named after Fritz Walter, who played for the Kaiserslautern club throughout his career and was captain of the Germany national football team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup in the "Miracle of Bern".

Matthias Sindelar

On 3 April 1938, the Austrian team played Germany in the Prater Stadium in Vienna its last match as an independent Austrian team, as some weeks earlier, Germany had annexed Austria (Anschluss) and the Nazis ordered the dissolution of the Austrian team into a common team with Germany, albeit it had qualified for the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Paul-Grüninger-Stadion

The stadium is named after Swiss police captain and football player Paul Grüninger.

Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion

In its 2008-2010 European Nations Cup First Division campaign, Germany played one of its five home games at the stadium, the others being held at Heusenstamm and Heidelberg.

Sophie von La Roche

Georg von La Roche was an illegitimate son of Count Friedrich von Stadion-Warthausen and a dancer, Catharina La Roche.

Stadion

Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen (1806-1853), Austrian statesman, son of the previous


Christoph von Stadion

Christoph von Stadion was born in Schelklingen in Mid-March 1478, the son of Nikolaus von Stadion (d. 1507) and his wife Agatha von Gültlingen (d. 1504).

Doosan Arena

It is also known as Stadion ve Štruncových sadech (Stadium in Štrunc Park), named after Emil Štrunc, a former regional chieftain of the Sokol Movement (some people incorrectly think it is named after a famous local footballer Stanislav Štrunc).

Düsseldorf Volksgarten station

South of the platform are the sports facilities of TuRU Düsseldorf including its football stadium, Stadion an der Feuerbachstraße.

Fana Stadion

Fana stadion is a multi-use stadium in the borough of Fana in Bergen, Norway.

FC Espoo

The first team of FC Espoo plays its home games at Leppävaaran stadion in the district Leppävaara in the Greater Helsinki region.

Frankfurt Stadion station

Stadion station was given the name because the S-Bahn station is about a kilometre on foot from the Frankfurt stadium, the Commerzbank-Arena.

Fredrikstad FK

The seventh and final iteration of Fredrikstad's kit was introduced after a match between Norway and Poland at Fredrikstad stadion, on 7 October 1926.

Frogner stadion

In 1921, Harald Strøm set the record 8:27.7, and in 1922 he improved his own record to 8:26.5, both at Frogner stadion.

Max Morlock

In 2006, a majority of fans voted in favour of renaming the Frankenstadion itself into "Max-Morlock-Stadion", but the city of Nuremberg instead won a sponsorship deal with a local bank, which included renaming the stadium EasyCredit-Stadion after one of that bank's financial products.

OFK Prijedor

Their stadium was the "Gradski Stadion", today their bigger city rival FK Rudar Prijedor plays there.

Philip II Arena

Before the name change to Philip II Arena, at the beginning of 2009, the stadium was known as the Skopje City Stadium (Macedonian: Градски стадион Скопје, Gradski stadion Skopje).

Polychares

Polychares of Messenia, victor in the stadion race of the 4th Olympic Games in 764 BC

Randers FC

It was built by C. F. Møller Architects and is established on the former Randers Stadion, partly finished in 2006 leaving the North Stand in its original form.

Slavko Goldstein

Goldstein also wrote screenplays for several Yugoslav World War II films such as Signal Over the City (Signali nad gradom, 1960) and Operation Stadium (Akcija stadion, 1977, co-written with Dušan Vukotić).

Stadion Birchhölzli

Stadion Birchhölzli is a football stadium in Düdingen, Switzerland.

Stadion Górnika Łęczna

Stadion Górnika Łęczna (Górnik Łęczna stadium) is a football stadium in Łęczna, Poland.

Stadion Lapad

Gradski stadion Lapad is a football stadium located in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Stadion Pod Racinom

Stadion Pod Racinom is a multi-use stadium in Plav, Montenegro.

Stadion Pod Vrmcem

Stadion Pod Vrmcem is a multi-use stadium in Kotor, Montenegro.

Stadion Rujevica

Rujevica Stadium (official name: "Stadion Rujevica", English: "Rujevica Stadium") is a stadium that was planned to be built in the city of Rijeka.

Stadion Sportkompleks Abdysh-Ata

Stadion Sportkompleks Abdysh-Ata is a multi-use stadium in Kant, Kyrgyzstan.

Steenbek-Projensdorf

Today Steenbek-Projensdorf is bounded by the Olof-Palme-Damm between Suchsdorf and Steenbek-Projensdorf, furthermore by the Kiel Canal up to the bridge of Holtenau, by the B 503 - a freeway built in 1972 due to the Olympic Games - up to the tunnel junction with the Steenbeker Weg and lastly by the Projensdorfer Straße up to the Westring including the Holstein-Stadion.

Stenløse BK

Stenløse BK's home ground is the 3,000-capacity Stenløse Stadion in Stenløse on Zealand.

SV Meppen

Construction on the site was finished in 1924 and the stadium was named "Hindenburg Stadion" two years later.

Synods of Augsburg

The two Bishops Christopher von Stadion (1517–43) and Otto Truchsess von Waldburg (1543–73) made use of diocesan synods (1517, 1520, 1543 in Dillingen, and 1536 in Augsburg) for the purpose of checking the progress of the Reformation through the improvement of ecclesiastical life.


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