KING BAUDOUIN STADIUM (HEYSEL), BRUSSELS [STADIUM FLIGHT] скачать в хорошем качестве

KING BAUDOUIN STADIUM (HEYSEL), BRUSSELS [STADIUM FLIGHT]

King Baudouin Stadium (French: Stade Roi-Baudouin; Dutch: Koning Boudewijnstadion) is a football stadium with athletics facilities in the Belgian capital Brussels. It was called Heysel Stadium until 1995 and was converted into a multifunctional arena in the mid-1990s. With around 50,000 seats, the largest stadium in Belgium was one of the eight venues for the European Football Championship 2000 until the semi-finals. Since 1977, it has also hosted the Memorial Van Damme, one of the most prestigious athletics meetings in the world, which is part of the Diamond League series. On 29 May 1985, disaster struck the then Heysel Stadium. Immediately before the start of the European Cup final between Juventus Turin and Liverpool FC, a clash broke out between drunken British hooligans and Italian supporters in Block Z. Eventually, the English thugs stormed the section, which was mostly occupied by Italians, triggering a mass panic in which numerous people were trampled to death and crushed against the fences and walls. In the end, 39 people were dead and over 400 injured, some seriously. English clubs were subsequently completely banned from international cup competitions for five years.