Soccer Venues in New Zealand - Westpac Stadium, Waikato Stadium, Mount Smart Stadium, Northwestpac Stadium, Waikato Stadium, Mount Smart Stadium, North Harbour Stadium, Newtown Park Harbour Stadium, Newtown Park (Paperback)

Chapters: Westpac Stadium, Waikato Stadium, Mount Smart Stadium, North Harbour Stadium, Newtown Park, Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, Centennial Park, Christchurch, Bluewater Stadium, Sunnyvale Park, Memorial Park, Palmerston North, Kiwitea Street, English Park, Centennial Park, Ngaruawahia, Fred Taylor Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Westpac Stadium - The stadium is a multi-purpose facility, though used mainly for rugby union. It is the home of the Hurricanes Super 14 team and the Wellington Lions Air New Zealand Cup team, and also hosts the NZI International Sevens, one of the events in the annual IRB Sevens World Series for national rugby sevens teams. It is also the home venue for A-League football (soccer) team Wellington Phoenix FC. The stadium has also been used for rugby league matches. Australian rules football exhibition matches were played in 2000 and 2001. Off-field facilities built into the stadium also included the Stadium Centre of University of Otago, and a campus for the Wellington School of Cricket, run by the Wellington Cricket Association. In 2000, The Westpac Stadium had the honour of hosting the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This was the first time the event was hosted outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. During a cricket match, director Peter Jackson recorded 30,000 fans chanting in Black Speech for the sound of 10,000 chanting Uruk-hai during the Battle of Helm's Deep in the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. David Bowie performed at the stadium during his A Reality Tour on February 14, 2004. 2006 events at the stadium have included a concert by The Rolling Stones which ended the Australasian leg of its A Bigger Bang World Tour, and World Wrestling Entertainment's first ever New Zealand show, part of the WWE Smackdown ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1292296