Porto vs Barcelona on the inauguration day on the 16th of November, just reported on www.portuguesesoccer.com
Barcelona will be without of their many stars, with the national teams including Ronaldinho with a injured. only 4,000 tickets are left for the game
game will be televised live on RTP international 21:00 16:00 08:00 INAUGURAÇÃO DO ESTÁDIO DO "DRAGÃO" Inclui: ESPECIAL DESPORTO FUTEBOL DE PRIMEIRA PORTO vs BARCELONA
I'm watching the game on RTP right now. What is the purpose for this game? It looks like a new stadium, I'm assuming they built it for Euro 2004. Anyway the field sucks and play is very sloppy. 0-0 at the half.
first game ever played at the stadium FC Porto-2-Barcelona-0 goals by Derlei and the U20 Hugo Almeida
That's really bad if that was the first game ever on that field. There were mounds of torn up grass all over the place. They obviously did not give the sod enough time to settle in.
samething happen to the Sporting new stadium the grass had to be removed, the Benfica and Beira-Mar stadium without any problems they rush to have this games, Porto will have to play Partizan, per Uefa rules at the old stadium
Barcelona got 250 thousand dollars for the game. Futebol Internacional – O presidente do Barcelona e a ligação ao Porto ASF «Sinto-me muito ligado ao Porto, pois é uma cidade que luta pela descentralização do poder, algo similar ao que se passa na Catalunha.» A afirmação é de Joan Laporta, presidente do Barcelona, na sequência da presença dos «blaugrana» na inauguração do Estádio do Dragão, que terá valido ao clube catalão um «cachet» a rondar os 250 mil euros. 17/11/2003 21:58