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Stade de France
Description: The Stade de France is a football and rugby union stadium in Saint-Denis, France, an inner suburb of Paris. It has a ... more  Stade de France ... capacity of around 80,000. The stadium is currently used for the French rugby union team during the Six Nations and other internationals. Paris's main rugby club, Stade Français, have also regularly used the stadium as a home ground in recent years. Stade de France is also the venue for the Top 14 (the domestic rugby championship) final every year. The French football team also use the stadium, and it was there where they defeated Brazil 3-0 in the 1998 FIFA World Cup final. It was also used as the final venue for the Coupe de France (football competition). Stade de France has been the host for the Race of Champions for the past three years. In 2007, it will host several matches of the Rugby World Cup, including the final.Newest Review: ... age. It is enormous and imposes itself on all around it. Exiting the station you are impressed by its scale and you feel you ... more ... are going to a special occasion.
Around the ground on the day we went, they had numerous food stalls and beer tents. As one would expect these were grossly over priced. Furthermore, these stalls also seemed insistent on blaring out techno music which I could have done without as I was recovering from the mother of all hangovers.
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Stade de France: Che sera, sera whatever will be will be were going to (1060 words)
by mikefnw75 - written on 07.06.06 (Very useful, 680 readings)
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we're going to Gay Paris so the song went. I visited the Stade de France for Arsenal's ill-fated Champions League final against Barcelona and here is my opinion of the stadium. *** History *** This stadium was built to concede with France hosting the World Cup in 1998. It was built in 3 years at a cost of £260 million pounds. It is built in the St Denis region in the outskirts of Paris. Incredibly the lower tier has been designed so it can be moved forwards or backwards by 15 meters bringing spectators closer to the action. *** Ticket Prices *** For this match the range of prices were £128, £100, ...
