worldstadiums.com

[Peadar]

Just looking at this site and it says that Courcey Rovers are the club associated with Corks Pairc Ui Caoimh. Are Courcey Rovers not from near Kinsale?

No picture of Turners Cross, I'll have to sort that out.

[pete]

They also have both Croke Park & Lansdowne Road down as national Stadiums.

Do they know something the rest of us don't?

[Peadar]

Originally posted by pete
Do they know something the rest of us don't?

Croke Park is the national ground for GAA and Lansdowne is the national rugby ground.

[patsh]

Maybe we could get those [COLOR=red]North Koreans [/COLOR] to build us a stadium.
They seems to be no shortage there!...............

[Peadar]

Originally posted by oddboy
Maybe we could get those [COLOR=red]North Koreans [/COLOR] to build us a stadium.
They seems to be no shortage there!...............

There's a hell of a lot more stadiums in South Korea.
And believe me they're amazing.
This World Cup we'll see some of the bast stadia in the World.

[Seanie]

Is John Hyland Park really a 3,500 all-seater stadium

[patsh]

There's a hell of a lot more stadiums in South Korea.

Yeah I know, but they will actually use them for a tournament.
It's just that looking at the worldstadiums site you mentioned, I was struck by the number, design and scale of stadia in N. Korea, a country which has never had a major tournament or a professional/amatuer league of any kind. What do they do with them, I wonder?................

[jbrazil]

Originally posted by Peadar
Are Courcey Rovers not from near Kinsale?

yep, a few miles away. they have their own pitch out there as well...

[Peadar]

Originally posted by oddboy
What do they do with them, I wonder?................

Following World War II, Korea was split into a northern, communist half and a southern, Western-oriented half. Like so many other communist countries sport is controlled by the Government. They do play football there too. With a population of almost 22,000,000 I think they could fill a few stadiums. In fact I can even bring you this football news story from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The manager of North Korea's national soccer squad said Wednesday that his players were eager to compete in the World Cup, but not in this year's event which is being co-hosted by South Korea.

Team manager Kim Jong Man said North Korea would like to play in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but not in the May 31-June 30 tournament. The communist North and capitalist South Korea are still technically at war.

The North Korean squad will play Singapore's national team on Thursday. The match is a rare opportunity for fans and scouts to see the mysterious North Koreans at an international level.

FIFA, soccer's world governing body, has said North Koreans can play for South Korea's World Cup team. Kim, however, said he had never heard of such a deal or of any North Koreans that would play for the South.

"I think every player is willing and ambitious to play in the next World Cup (in Germany) of course," he told reporters at Singapore's National Stadium. He did not say why the North did not want to play during the tournament this year.

"I don't know anything about North Korea," Singapore's coach Jan Poulsen said at a joint news conference at the stadium.

"The last time I saw them play was in 1966 in England when they lost 5-3 to Portugal" during the quarterfinals of the World Cup, Poulsen said.

Song Ki-ryong, a spokesman at South Korea's Football Association, said earlier this week that the association would send two scouts to watch the North Korean team during the King's Cup in Bangkok next week to see if there are any players worthy of the World Cup soccer squad.

North Korea won the four-nation Samsung Cup during its last international appearance in Shanghai. The North clinched the cup in the final match against Kuwait 5-3 on penalty kicks. They played to a 1-1 draw in regulation and overtime. The two other countries in the tournament were China and Trinidad and Tobago.

North Korea and South Korea played two friendly matches in 1990 in the North's capital of Pyongyang and in the South's capital in Seoul. South Korea won in Seoul and North Korea won in Pyongyang.

There was some confusion and laughter during the news conference Wednesday when media asked the North Koreans who their best strikers (or forwards) were. After a huddled discussion with their fellow coaches, they realized the word for the position had been lost in translation.

"The word's not striker, not forward," said Patrick Ang chairman of Singapore's national team committee. "They use the word 'attack."'

[patsh]

Following World War II, Korea was split into a northern, communist half and a southern, Western-oriented half.

Thanks for the history lesson.........
I can remember the famous Pak Doo Ik , who became a star at the 1966 world cup, playing for N. K.. I think though that most of their stadia are "[COLOR=crimson]vanity[/COLOR] " projects by their beloved leaders ( ) as food is probably more desirable to the North Korean people themselves.

[COLOR=indigo]Hey, I just became an apprentice !!!!........[/COLOR]