May Day Stadium

Dundee · Post by **Dundee** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:18 am

Are in the May Day Stadium in North Korea also football games or only dance performances? On www.fussballtempel.net there stands: "Mainly mass Games and dance performances, very rarely Football and Athletics".
Very rarely means not often but sometimes is that right? Or are there never football games? Thanks for help.

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:49 am

I am sure it holds some soccer matches. but it would rarely get soccer matches because of the conflict between the West and North Korea.

But I am sure some of North Korean domestic soccer comp is played there.

Yep your definition of rarely is correct.

Sathc · Post by **Sathc** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:57 am

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's home world cup qualifying matches are played at the Kim Il Sung stadium and Yanggakdo Stadium, both located im Pyöngyang. A city with three major stadiums, one the largest in the world that is rarely used for sport... Only the work of an evil dictator can cause this.

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:59 am

I wouldn't like my chances of getting decent food there.

HoldenV8 · Post by **HoldenV8** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:05 am

Back in 1995, the May Day Stadium held a 2 day Profesional Wrestling event in conjunction with the World Peace Festival. Headlining the wrestling was none other than the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair.

The 1st day attracted a small crowd of 150,000 paying spectators (this was April 28, 1995). Day 2 (April 29) saw a world record 190,000 people through the gates. When you consider that the largest wrestling crowd ever in the USA/Canada was 93,173 it shows how big pro wrestling is in Asia.

But you're right, I've not heard of much more except dance festivals there really. Heard nor read about other sports apart from the wrestling there.

Dundee · Post by **Dundee** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 8:42 am

The webmaster of a Stadium website told me that in the May day Stadium there was a game between North Korea and Iran or Irak he doesn't know it exactly. I haven't heard about that match. Do you know anything about it?

Tancred · Post by **Tancred** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:16 am

The list of their upcomming games
http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/fixtures/fi ... lect13=PRK

britishspud · Post by **britishspud** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:28 pm

hot_dogma wrote:I wouldn't like my chances of getting decent food there.

i bet you could get a decent HOT DOG

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:08 am

britishspud wrote:
hot_dogma wrote:I wouldn't like my chances of getting decent food there.
i bet you could get a decent HOT DOG

LOL