Stadium Central

While we Americans love to tout the beauty of our baseball and football stadiums, soccer stadiums obviously hold the hearts of most of the rest of the world. A recent entry by John Molinaro of CBC Sports Online suggests a few stadiums that can be considered soccer's best around the world. He mentions Old Trafford (home of Manchester United), the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, and Ali Sami Yen in Istanbul among others. But the stadium touted as the best in which to watch the game was La Bombonero (translated to English as "The Chocolate Box") in Buenos Aires, home of the Boca Juniors. The picture below shows this interesting stadium; the design puts the fans on top of the field and creates an intimidating atmosphere. It's great to see that these soccer stadiums are touted for their ability to put the spectators into the action instead of the trend in modern American stadiums in which stadiums' virtues are measured by the way in which luxury boxes and club seats allow fans to be separated from the action. La Bombonero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image from The Stadium Guide.