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...girls wearing baseball caps and baggy shirts mope around in a makeshift prison just outside the walls of Tehran's Azadi Stadium. From behind the flimsy cage, the girls can hear cheers erupt as Iran and Bahrain battle it out for a place in the World Cup. Under arrest for trying to sneak into the football match disguised as boys, the girls await their punishment - but being so tantalizingly close to the game is torture enough. One of the captives debates with a reluctant guard about the logic of Iran's law banning women from stadiums. "There are lots...
...resistance to Franco and developed a romance with the city. During my teens, I finally made a pilgrimage to Catalonia. It was the week before the New Year, and Barça had no matches scheduled. But to celebrate the holiday season, the club had opened the doors of its stadium, the Nou Camp, to the public, gratis. I sat in a line in the parking lot with young kids, eager to catch a glimpse of the pitch, and old men, eager to visit the trophy case--and I converted...
...past 18 months, a league that has been kept whole by dipping into the deep pockets of two soccer-nutty billionaire owners has attracted close to $1 billion in outside investment from new franchises, new team owners, public stadium funding and sponsorship money. Adidas kicked in $150 million to become the league's sole uniform supplier, in part to hold off Nike. MLS is close to a new television-rights deal with ABC/ESPN, one in which it will actually get money for its games, instead of having to buy the time from the networks and hope to sell...
...Apple team, now called Red Bull New York, is building a stadium in Harrison, N.J., 12 miles from midtown Manhattan, that epitomizes MLS's effort to be a major minor sport in America. Or a minor major one. The 25,000-capacity, two-tiered Red Bull stadium is designed to deliver a more European feel to the customers, which can't be done when 15,000 fans--a typical MLS crowd--get lost in a 70,000-seat U.S. football stadium. The Harrison arena will be one of eight new stadiums, including the Home Depot Center, Pizza Hut Park...
Nike is keeping its ambush plans for Germany under wraps, but Adidas has already manned the ramparts. The company is building a 10,000-seat stadium near the Reichstag, Germany's parliament, in downtown Berlin to attract fans during the Cup. For a 1-euro ($1.25) entrance fee, spectators will be able to watch games on a big screen, test their skills at soccer stations and attend concerts. On the airways, Adidas scored a major coup by shutting out Nike ads on U.S. English-language broadcasts of the games. The company will also be the sole footwear sponsor on three...