Anyone been to the Stadium of Light - no not Sunderland

[NS Herald]

Estádio da Luz Stadium in Lisbon.

I'm lucky enough to be in Lisbon on Sunday and found out Benfica have an evening game at home. My business contacts are trying to get us a couple of tickets. Anyone been?

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Estádio da Luz Stadium in Lisbon.

I'm lucky enough to be in Lisbon on Sunday and found out Benfica have an evening game at home. My business contacts are trying to get us a couple of tickets. Anyone been?

I have been a few times to watch England and it a cracking stadium. There is a shopping centre right next door as well which is pretty good.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA

 

[maffew]

its f***ing ace, got some pics here I think....

 

[Cecil]

Was there for Euro 2004. Top notch

 

[maffew]

 

[maffew]

 

[Uncle Buck]

Yes indeed.

 

[maffew]

ub did you manage to get to the the leiria in Coimbra?

 

[maffew]

liera

 

[Mr Blobby]

Stadium of Light - first lot in 1987 before it was rebuilt, next 3 from Croatia and then Portugal match in Euro 2004

 

[salazar]

You don't want to be going to see benfica when you have the mighty SPORTING 2km away.Remember that they [benfica] have an eagle as their mascot.

 

[salazar]

And another thing,they have a gypsy as a manager.

 

[maffew]

You don't want to be going to see benfica when you have the mighty SPORTING 2km away.Remember that they [benfica] have an eagle as their mascot.

crap mascot, much better stadium though
(have deleted SLs picture cos its too big and not very good pic)

 

[Storer68]

it is not the stadium of light (common mistranslation)

it is the stadium in the district of Luz in Lisbon

 

[Paxton Dazo]

I flew over it and Sporting Lisbons ground for braga away - look nice stadiums ( very, very close)

 

[The Large One]

I flew over it and Sporting Lisbons ground for braga away - look nice stadiums ( very, very close)

Run that by me again...

One, they don't call themselves Sporting Lisbon.

Two, why were you flying over Lisbon to get to Braga?

 

[Storer68]

I flew over it and Sporting Lisbons ground for braga away - look nice stadiums ( very, very close)

are there two Sporting Lisbons

 

[salazar]

They are known as Sporting or SCP,Sporting clube de Portugal. Now benfica are SLB or otherwise known as filho de puta SLB.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Run that by me again...

One, they don't call themselves Sporting Lisbon.

Two, why were you flying over Lisbon to get to Braga?

Err , i might have got confused - we spent 1 night in porto and 2 nights in braga, but we DEFIANTLY flew over a ground with green seats and a ground with red seats, within 2 miles of eachother.

Sporting Clube de Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -

 

[shaun_rc]

The toliet? (as Sporting Portugal's stadium is referred to by Benfica fans, due to the green and white tiled finish).

I've worked in Lisbon a few times and have a friend there who's a big Benfica fan. I was lucky enough to see them against AC Milan in the Champions League there last year (as well as 1.FC Nurnberg in the UEFA).

If you do go... make sure you get there early enough to see the real eagle (called Viktoria) who flies around the stadium 10 mins before every game. It is a shame about the mascot, though my mate's not too happy about our blue and white Porto stripes either! It's a spectacular sight though, flies around and lands in the middle of the pitch.

Top Fact no.2... it's a sister stadium of the Emirates, built to the same plan but with less money, so a rougher finish on the outside. It's a shame if stadiums become like shopping centres (i.e. all identical), but it's a great stadium, even if there are two of them in this case. If you've been to the @rse, you've been to Benfica (but the weather's nicer in Portugal)

Unfortunately it can be a lot emptier than the Emirates though. Wages in Portugal are a lot lower than here. It's even possible to easiely get tickets for the derbies against Sporting, and the AC Milan game was a 35,000 attendance in a 60,000 stadium. The tickets were 35 euros, in a country where wages are half ours...

Same applied to Sporting, though it's a tighter ground, with the seats painted to look like there are people there, even if there aren't!