City of Coventry Stadium and Olympic Football Tickets

The Ricoh Arena  home to Coventry City F.C., is a stadium complex situated in the Rowley’s Green district of the city of Coventry, England containing a 32,609 seated football stadium, a 6,000 square meter exhibition hall, a hotel, a leisure club, and a casino. The site is also home to Arena Park Shopping Centre containing one of the largest Extra hypermarkets. The site was previously home to the Floes hill gasworks. It is named after its sponsor, Japanese company Ricoh who paid £10million deal for the naming rights over ten years. For the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where stadium naming sponsorship is forbidden, the stadium will be known as the City of Coventry Stadium.

The arena was opened officially by Dame Kelly Holmes and Sports Minister Richard Caborn on 24 February 2007. This was after the arena had been open for a year which included hosting a sellout England under 21 football matches against Germany and a full season of Coventry City football matches.

The decision to relocate Coventry City from High field Road to a new stadium with a larger capacity and better road links and parking facilities was made in 1997 by the club's then chairman Bryan Richardson. It was anticipated that the new stadium would be ready for the 2000–01 season.

Permission for the ground's construction was given in the spring of 1999, with a targeted completion date of August 2001. This deadline was not met by almost four years the final gas holder wasn't demolished until September 2002. The original design for the arena was for a state-of the art 45,000 capacity stadium with a retractable roof, and a pitch that could slide out to reveal a hard floor for concerts. If the plan for a 45,000 seat stadium had gone ahead, it would have given the Sky Blues one of the biggest club stadia in Britain. After Coventry City's relegation in May 2001, a number of contractor/financier withdrawals and England's bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals ended in failure, the plans were significantly downsized to reflect new realities, and by the summer of 2002, there were plans for a more basic 32,500-seat stadium in its place.

On Friday 6 October 2006, the Arena hosted its first international football game when the England U-21 team played the German U-21 team in the first leg of a European U21 Championship qualifying play off. England won the game 1–0, with the winning goal scored by Leighton Baines. The name comes from a sponsorship deal, reported to be worth £10 million over 10 years with camera and photocopier manufacturer Ricoh, though during construction the stadium was variously referred to as the Jaguar Arena, Arena Coventry, and Arena 2000.

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The Millennium Stadium and Olympic Football Tickets

The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage of Wales Rally Great Britain, Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, boxing and many music concerts, including Tina Turner, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, U2, Stereo phonics, Paul McCartney, and the Tsunami Relief concert. It was built to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

The Millennium Stadium is owned by Millennium Stadium palace which is a subsidiary company of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU). The stadium was designed by a team led by architects Bligh Lob Sports Architecture, who merged to become HOK Sport Venue Event, which would be renamed Populous in early 2009. WS Atkins was the structural engineers, and the building contractor was Laing. The total construction cost of the stadium was £121 million, of which the Millennium Commission funded £46 million.

The stadium opened in June 1999 and the first major event to be held was an international rugby union match on 26 June 1999, when Wales beat South Africa in a friendly by 29–19, before a test crowd of 29,000. With total seating capacity of 72,500, it is the third largest stadium in the Six Nations Championship behind the Stade de France and Twickenham, which is the largest. It is also the second largest stadium in the world with a fully retractable roof and was the second stadium in Europe to have this feature.

Until 1969, Cardiff RFC and Wales both played their home matches on the same pitch at Cardiff Arms Park, but all this changed in the 1969–70 season. As a result of an agreement between Cardiff Athletic Club and the WRU, the National Stadium project had established that a new stadium for international matches and events was required, with Cardiff RFC moving to a new purpose built stadium on the original cricket ground at the site of the former Cardiff Arms Park stadium. By 7 April 1984 the National Stadium was officially opened. However in 1994, a redevelopment committee was set up to consider redeveloping the National Stadium, and by 1995 the WRU had been chosen to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

For the 2012 Summer Olympics, the stadium will also be one of the hosts for the football events hosting at least eight football matches, including a women's football match that is the first event of the Games, even prior to the opening ceremony. Olympic Tickets are being sold for The Olympic Games 2012, London. Global Ticket Market is selling all Olympic Tickets including Olympic Football Tickets at very cheap rates. You can purchase Olympic Football Tickets from Global Ticket Market in a secure way, very easily and at lesser rates.

Football construction and Olympic Football Tickets

The four main components of a Football ball are the cover, the stitching, the lining and the bladder.  Understanding these components and their options will help you in choosing the perfect ball to meet your playing and quality needs. The surface of Football balls or coverings are made up from synthetic leather and not full grain leather as used in the past because leather has a tendency to absorb water causing the ball to become very heavy. Synthetic leather is typically made from PU and PVC.

There are many variations of synthetic leather used in the construction of Football balls. They range from AI-2000, Japanese Teijin Cordley, Microfiber, English Porvair, Korean Ducksung, Leather Art Pakistan Synthetic Leather, and PVC. Best Football balls used in competition and by professionals are produced by using AI-2000, Cordley, Ducksung and Micro fiber or other types of PU synthetic leather. Promotional Football balls or practice balls are usually constructed with Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) or rubber molded or stitched covers. Material thickness plays a vital part in the quality of hand-sewn Football balls. Multiple layers of lining are placed between the cover and the bladder. These layers are composed of polyester and/or cotton bonded together to give the ball strength, structure and bounce. Professional Football balls usually have four or more layers of lining. Promotional or practice balls are often constructed with less layers of lining. The lining helps the ball retain its shape and bounce over the life of the ball.

Many Football balls include a foam layer for added cushioning and ball control. The bladder in a Football ball holds the air. Bladders are usually made from latex or butyl. Compared to latex bladders, butyl bladders retain air for longer periods of time. Latex bladders tend to provide better surface tension. However; butyl bladders offer the excellent combination of contact quality and air retention. Futsal ball bladders are filled with foam to limit the bouncing capability of the ball since they are used on hard flooring.

Most balls use butyl valves for air retention, with higher end balls using a silicone-treated valve for superior performance.  Silicone treated valves are used on some balls for smooth insertion of the inflating needle and added protection from air loss. When you first receive a ball, a good idea is to put a few drops of silicon oil in the valve.  This will provide easier needle insertion and better air retention.

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