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It appears that plans for a new NIS 500 million, 55,000-seat National Stadium will be delayed two years. Construction is estimated to take around two and a half years, but a study found that the national soccer team does not have an alternative stadium for that time that meets FIFA criteria.

"We have the necessary money and I have already approached planners in Germany," said Gideon Brickman, chairman of the Sports Betting Council, which is a partner in the project. "However, the Israel Football Association is unable to provide an alternative to Ramat Gan Stadium, which has a capacity of 35,000. The stadiums we are currently in the process of building will not be ready in the near future," he said yesterday.

josh007

That really sucks, but I thought it was supposed to be a tear down and build instead of Ramat Gan stadium. They changed it to build in a whole new site?

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Livni

The the Sports Betting Council should be fired.
their whole campaigns are based on lies and telling fantasies to the press and then saying its cancelled or delayed.
Where is the money going to besides their huge salaries?

The sport infrastructures everywhere in every sports field is old neglected and far below intl standard. Someone must investigate into how this council hands over its PUBLIC money, because its going into some not so public pockets. They have money for commercials how great they are.. for that there is never ending funds.

Im not surprised we dont have any other FIFA-level stadium - haifa/b.sheva ones are being delayed forever, blumfield and teddy are probably too small.. HELP SOS HELP SOS! fire these people already! the only two things they are expert in is new excuses why stadiums arent built and picking restaurants for lunch.

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