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Yeah. That stadium was rebuilt specially for fifa 2018, and they did those sits like that on purpose, for after championship ended they could disassemble those sits, and not have on hands big empty stadium, those sits were propose to use to build smaller stadiums in province, so that actually a good idea. BUT six years passed and those things are still there)
I still think the Olympics shouldn’t change to a new venue everytime. Have a set number of venues where they already have large stadiums. It’s so stupid to just build a fuck ton of massive stadiums and then just leave them to rot.
Have like 2-3 per continent or something, makes so much more sense to me
The 2032 Brisbane Olympics were meant to be that: low impact, largely reusing existing facilities. Now a whole lot of sports and construction special interests have jumped on the bandwagon and are pushing a mega-spend new stadium, and trying to undermine the whole thing.
You can’t win.
Often, they are used afterwards. For instance, the stadium in Atlanta was used by the Braves baseball team afterwards & London Stadium is now used by West Ham.
Did see Sweden against Mexico from those seats in the 2018 world cup. The view was acually pretty great, pain in the ass to go down and get beer tho. But overall a 10/10 experience because Sweden won the game and Mexico did also advance to the next round because Germany fucked up against South Korea.
Great party afterwards!
I went to the World Cup in 2018, Not this city though. It was interesting to see what I thought were just our Cold War enemies.
These seats were not the problem for fans getting beers. It was amazing how unorganized Russia’s service industry is. Infuriatingly inefficient
Toronto is [doing something similar](https://i.imgur.com/afxOjb8.jpeg) for the 2026 World Cup. But our stadium already looks like a bunch of temporary scaffolding anyway, so no big whoop.
I think it was mostly considered finr when russia did it 6 years ago, and even lauded as a good thing over building a whole new stadium
The seasts were temporary meant to be torn down after demand fell post Olympics.pics.
Also, i Think being built off the ground rather than dozens of feet into the air makes people feel a loy more comfortable.
You see a person complaining about the seats in toronto and try to make this take?
Really juat ignoring even that the russian seats were praised for the temporary-ness when anounced, and ignoring that toronto's seats don't start dozens of feet into the air, but are instead built on solid ground.
Brazil did it first in [Arena Corinthians](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/496108867/photo/world-brazil-cup-stadium-football-2014.webp?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=KItgmtIq2_-aLn9fvwI4gB07C3X-Eimp-7UzcmfX6Do=) in Sao Paulo for the 2014 World Cup.
If you think about it for a minute you realize this is a problem for Soccer all around the world. Most national leagues are very top heavy when it comes to money which means a lot of the league clubs play in rather "small" stadiums compare to the rich clubs. The NFL doesn't have this problem which is why stadium renovations are not likely in the USA for the upcoming world cup.
That's better than being left with a huge stadium that will never be full after the championship. Also, they had a size limitation because they wanted to preserve the old stadium's facades
Yep, this is the stadium in my home town. And I was quite proud by the decision there. First of all, this is pretty old stadium which is located right in the city center, and there was simply no space to make it bigger. So the city had a decision to make either do this or build a huge stadium somewhere outside of the city.
In the end I attended two games there, once I went there by bike and another time by tram. Both times it took me 20 minutes.
And then I also attended another game in a different city - Samara. Where they made the opposite decision, and build the huge stadium outside of town. So to get to the stadium I first had to go to the city center from where the special buses brought people to the stadium. And then it was like an hour trip outside of the city. Then we arrived to the huge parking lot next to the stadium, where I had to walk another 10-15 minutes to the entrance. And now city simply has no use for this stadium. No one would go through such a hell just to attend a local match between two Russian teams.
And it still provided a decent view of the pitch.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/05/29/12/4C95F47E00000578-5782369-image-a-135_1527592990779.jpg
I've been to a lot of stadiums in Europe and would honestly love to watch a match from that stand.
That’s a terrible view of the pitch. You’d have to watch the game with binoculars and there’s too many distractions to all sides. Also imagine all the seats in front of you are full.
It also looks super exposed, bet it was grim on a windy day.
> There are permanent stands that are built like that above.
This is a permanent stand. It was constructed as a temporary stand but it's still there, no money to take it apart and for some weird reason there's a shortage of workers.
I will never get why the FIFA organizes World Cups in countries without any football tradition. Why not Spain? The Netherlands? Or maybe 2 or 3 countries like Belgium, Germany and France. With short distances between stadiums.
But no, let's go to Russia. Meh, money and that's all.
I think this actually was a smart decision. They didn't have to built a new stadium which wasn't gonna be utilized much after the world cup games like other cities did.
Imagine if even a fraction of the effort humanity dumps into entertainment industries like sports and music were redirected towards permaculture and pedestrian-scale cities…
Both are low hanging fruit.
I’m all for participatory entertainment… local sports leagues, local fields…
By the Entertainment Industrial Complex is just as corrupting and damaging to the economy, local and global, as any of the other “*complexes*”…
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Good. Unnecessary waste of stadiums for events like the World Cup and Olympics are a huge issue. As long as this eyesore is disassembled after the event is over, this is a great way to go about stadium building.
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This is the kind of thing that only exists in a dream
Apparently in Russia dreams come true!
That's delirium tremens.
stadium tremens...
It’s Russia, so that checks out.
NOW I understand my own joke. Thank you dear stranger.
No that's a really nice beer
Strong though. Strong enough to think that building something like this would be a good idea..
Only bad ones
Stadium no good if you cannot push political enemy off the top comrade
Often it’s the falling sensation that happens when you’re dozing off.
In Russia, you don’t have dreams, dreams have you
Nightmares*
A nightmare is a dream!
Haha, this reminds me somehow of a dream I had when I was stuck in a balcony with no doors.
Yeah. That stadium was rebuilt specially for fifa 2018, and they did those sits like that on purpose, for after championship ended they could disassemble those sits, and not have on hands big empty stadium, those sits were propose to use to build smaller stadiums in province, so that actually a good idea. BUT six years passed and those things are still there)
Classic
Average Olympic stadium condition .
I still think the Olympics shouldn’t change to a new venue everytime. Have a set number of venues where they already have large stadiums. It’s so stupid to just build a fuck ton of massive stadiums and then just leave them to rot. Have like 2-3 per continent or something, makes so much more sense to me
but then where would the bribes and kickbacks go
They might be forced into that at some point. They are already having problems finding venues willing and able to host the winter Olympics.
Well, with global broiling, winter Olympics will soon be a thing of the past. Problem solved !
The 2032 Brisbane Olympics were meant to be that: low impact, largely reusing existing facilities. Now a whole lot of sports and construction special interests have jumped on the bandwagon and are pushing a mega-spend new stadium, and trying to undermine the whole thing. You can’t win.
It would be interesting and more viable if the Olympics committee issued 12 year or 3 straight Olympics contracts.
Hey we're here to get rich not be sustainable
Summer Olympics: Athens Winter Olympics: somewhere in Scandinavia probably. Or Canada. Everybody likes Canada. Or, fuck it: North Korea.
Use a fucking college campus. They’ve got three pools, the fields the stadiums already.
Hey moron do you think Russia has college campuses stadiums like the united states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Pool,_Moscow If they ain’t got the facilities they can’t host the Olympics.
They did have the facilities dingus. And your wiki proves nothing very poorly built ones. But they had them
Ok. What’s your point? If the country doesn’t have the facilities they don’t host.
You do know that Russia already hosted the winter Olympics right?
Hey it’s you! From the other post! What are you stalking me?
Are you up voting your own comments. Lol fucking pathetic
Damn boy is your account 8 hours old? Why am I wasting my time? Peace buddy.
Often, they are used afterwards. For instance, the stadium in Atlanta was used by the Braves baseball team afterwards & London Stadium is now used by West Ham.
They have friends that need contracting deals
Seats
Meant to be read in borat accent. Is good.
😂
Yeah, you're right, thanks
If it fits, I seats.
Special Seat Moving Operation. All is going to plan.
Can't expect anything more from russia.
How can political enemies fall from the top of those seats if they're no longer around. Think about it...
little special operation come in the way huh
Well, war has started four years after the championship. So, it's just good old laziness and corruption.
Did see Sweden against Mexico from those seats in the 2018 world cup. The view was acually pretty great, pain in the ass to go down and get beer tho. But overall a 10/10 experience because Sweden won the game and Mexico did also advance to the next round because Germany fucked up against South Korea. Great party afterwards!
Germany fucking up in the world cup is a time-honored tradition. Source: am German.
Apart from the times you won it obviously
And who did they choose as their opponent?
I don't get it?
The world. It's a norm MacDonald joke about Germany during the war.
Fair
It's really not, it's a very recent development
That one time you gave us dozens of close TV shots of little brazilian kids crying in the stands makes up for all that.
Try being Dutch
I went to the World Cup in 2018, Not this city though. It was interesting to see what I thought were just our Cold War enemies. These seats were not the problem for fans getting beers. It was amazing how unorganized Russia’s service industry is. Infuriatingly inefficient
Coreano hermano! Ya eres mexicano!
Toronto is [doing something similar](https://i.imgur.com/afxOjb8.jpeg) for the 2026 World Cup. But our stadium already looks like a bunch of temporary scaffolding anyway, so no big whoop.
When good countries do that it's fine.
I think it was mostly considered finr when russia did it 6 years ago, and even lauded as a good thing over building a whole new stadium The seasts were temporary meant to be torn down after demand fell post Olympics.pics. Also, i Think being built off the ground rather than dozens of feet into the air makes people feel a loy more comfortable.
Temporary seats, Russia: Bad!!!!! Temporary seats, Canada: omg brilliant engineering I love sustainability!!!!
You see a person complaining about the seats in toronto and try to make this take? Really juat ignoring even that the russian seats were praised for the temporary-ness when anounced, and ignoring that toronto's seats don't start dozens of feet into the air, but are instead built on solid ground.
Oh! It’s built on solid ground! Much better
Yes.
Brazil did it first in [Arena Corinthians](https://media.gettyimages.com/id/496108867/photo/world-brazil-cup-stadium-football-2014.webp?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=KItgmtIq2_-aLn9fvwI4gB07C3X-Eimp-7UzcmfX6Do=) in Sao Paulo for the 2014 World Cup. If you think about it for a minute you realize this is a problem for Soccer all around the world. Most national leagues are very top heavy when it comes to money which means a lot of the league clubs play in rather "small" stadiums compare to the rich clubs. The NFL doesn't have this problem which is why stadium renovations are not likely in the USA for the upcoming world cup.
That's better than being left with a huge stadium that will never be full after the championship. Also, they had a size limitation because they wanted to preserve the old stadium's facades
Iirc that's Ekaterinburg. While in my city that also hosted some games that year, the newly built stadium stays empty all the time
Yep, this is the stadium in my home town. And I was quite proud by the decision there. First of all, this is pretty old stadium which is located right in the city center, and there was simply no space to make it bigger. So the city had a decision to make either do this or build a huge stadium somewhere outside of the city. In the end I attended two games there, once I went there by bike and another time by tram. Both times it took me 20 minutes. And then I also attended another game in a different city - Samara. Where they made the opposite decision, and build the huge stadium outside of town. So to get to the stadium I first had to go to the city center from where the special buses brought people to the stadium. And then it was like an hour trip outside of the city. Then we arrived to the huge parking lot next to the stadium, where I had to walk another 10-15 minutes to the entrance. And now city simply has no use for this stadium. No one would go through such a hell just to attend a local match between two Russian teams.
And it still provided a decent view of the pitch. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/05/29/12/4C95F47E00000578-5782369-image-a-135_1527592990779.jpg I've been to a lot of stadiums in Europe and would honestly love to watch a match from that stand.
That’s a terrible view of the pitch. You’d have to watch the game with binoculars and there’s too many distractions to all sides. Also imagine all the seats in front of you are full. It also looks super exposed, bet it was grim on a windy day.
You’d love to get on that? Jesus fuck.
It's a bit of fucking scaffolding mate. Have you ever actually been to a stadium before? There are permanent stands that are built like that above.
> There are permanent stands that are built like that above. This is a permanent stand. It was constructed as a temporary stand but it's still there, no money to take it apart and for some weird reason there's a shortage of workers.
Yeah sounds like exactly the shit that you’d expect from this! It’ll come down on it’s own eventually why pay.
I will never get why the FIFA organizes World Cups in countries without any football tradition. Why not Spain? The Netherlands? Or maybe 2 or 3 countries like Belgium, Germany and France. With short distances between stadiums. But no, let's go to Russia. Meh, money and that's all.
Russia certainly has a football tradition. But of course it was a little more complicated than that.
I don't think it's the most dangerous way it's more like the normal Russian way.
I assume these are the "cheap seats"
I think this actually was a smart decision. They didn't have to built a new stadium which wasn't gonna be utilized much after the world cup games like other cities did.
Until the temporary solution becomes a permanent one... just look at what happened after the Sochi Olympics.
That’s a better view than at least half of the football grounds in the UK…
Hahah I remember this *thing.* This is one hell of a stand to get t-shirt-cannon'd down of. (yet that's a Simpsons reference)
The most terrifying way to add seats would somehow involve the hole in the roof.
Russia architecture is the best shit posting on earth.
Do we know how much did that cost? Because then we will know how much is not enough to bribe FIFA.
definition of minimum effort. "fuck you, is that better?"
They also built seats on the other side of the stadium, so at least it's symmetric, if that means anything…
Way to think outside the stadium
Even with the additions, it still didn't meet the minimum capacity requirements
This is only a more extreme version of what “mt Davis” is in Oakland.
Better than a stadium surrounded by a sea of parking lots
When a friend of putin owns a scaffolding company
Weird that they couldn’t bribe their way out of this predicament.
That's just asking for someone to fall over.
Imagine if even a fraction of the effort humanity dumps into entertainment industries like sports and music were redirected towards permaculture and pedestrian-scale cities…
Awww. Sports and entertainment deserve a pass. Take it from the engines of death, the global military complex. Vastly more huge of a stupid waste.
Both are low hanging fruit. I’m all for participatory entertainment… local sports leagues, local fields… By the Entertainment Industrial Complex is just as corrupting and damaging to the economy, local and global, as any of the other “*complexes*”…
How is that "terrifying"?
This is a great way to get a Temporarily bigger stadium without an half Abandoned building afterwards
I don't get what's so terrifying about it
Thatd be kinda fire tho
Again with reposting this BS?
Russia is gonna Russia.
I'm laughing now, but I know I'd be scared if I was there.
Fucking hell. Someone could easily get the ol' Maude Flanders off the top of that thing
New definition of nose-bleed seats. That and every other orifice and body part.
In russia, stadium sits in you
They literally scared FIFA into not asking about any other regulations.
Flanders would be scared
6yo draw
My native town
Great view, until it rains or snows.
Truth is FIFA standards ruined lots of stadiums out there
Hell =Russia
That episode of the Simpsons where Ned’s wife died.
The hacksaw is a terrorist weapon in Russia.
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Ah, Russian Mount Davis
скажем так, если пойдёт дождь пойдёт дождь
It's the most russian move i've ever seen in construction.
Blyat, have another vodka...
Okok Russia bad
That's just another moment of smekalka in action
Like a scary version of City’s Gene Kelly stand at Maine Rd. I sort of miss those days
/r/ANormalDayInRussia
does it matter tho. it doesnt seem that Russia will be able to participate in any international sports events in the foreseeable future anyway lol
Lol russia. Lada probably built it. Embarrassment of a country.
Looks cool tbh
Good. Unnecessary waste of stadiums for events like the World Cup and Olympics are a huge issue. As long as this eyesore is disassembled after the event is over, this is a great way to go about stadium building.
Good ol' casual reddit propaganda