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Leverkusen's defender Stefan Reinartz plays the ball during the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen first leg match Bayer Leverkusen vs FC Barcelona at the BayArena stadium on February 14, 2012 in Leverkusen, western Germany. Barcelona won the match 1-3.
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The idea of private funding for the stadium was an illusion. In 2007, we thought we could find investors to build a stadium although there were only a few such examples ... Stadiums and airports for the World Cup in Germany or the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland were built by the state. And that's right, because it is an object that doesn't offer direct return. That's a matter of prestige and sports development.
I could have moved to Russia, earned more money and felt more relaxed ... But I chose another option and joined Lazio. I’m hungry for football and really want new victories. I need new challenges and Lazio is a great challenge for me.
They entered the Olympic arena while the Israeli anthem was playing and it was hard to find the words to describe what it must have meant for those authors, whose grandfathers had been killed at concentration camps in Nazi Germany - walking onto the pitch like that. But soccer has helped us build bridges for the third generation.More quotes »
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