Stadium
Feyenoord Stadium (De Kuip)
Steel-and-glass football bowl from the 1930s with a famous overhanging double tier of stands.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Feyenoord Stadium, De Kuip, in Rotterdam starts with the autumn of nineteen thirty-six, when about fifteen hundred marines and jobless men were invited into the empty, brand-new stands and offered a small reward for an unusual afternoon's work. It follows the money behind the ground, from a coal trader's fortune to a club president who won a vote that critics said nobody could afford. Stand where you can see the upper tier hanging over the lower one.
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