One reporter questioned whether the artificial turf at San Jose's Ricardo Saprissa Stadium was a major factor in that loss.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

President Omar al-Bashir addressed a ceremony at a stadium in Omdurman.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

The two young women died in hospital from injuries suffered when they got caught up in the crush of people trying to enter a stadium hours before the pope held a youth rally.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"And the faces in this stadium show a simple truth: America's Army represents the full breadth of America's experience.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

It was a kind of round stadium with rows of seats all around the inside of it.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It is a splendid stadium such as is only seen in a few places on earth."

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Last year the New York Yankees moved into a new Yankee Stadium.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

"This stadium means a lot.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

"This stadium means a lot." "It is a splendid stadium such as is only seen in a few places on earth."

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The United Nations and local human rights groups say 157 people were shot dead during the rally at a Conakry stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Football fan Nkosinathi Wellington came out to see South Africa's national team inaugurate the 70,000-seat stadium in a friendly match with Zimbabwe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The last stadium, in the eastern city of Nelspruit, is to be handed over as soon as a new pitch is finished.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

French police packed the Jews into a vast stadium near the Eiffel Tower where they languished for days with almost no food or water.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

"Thanks to all the fans in the USA because there was a beautiful atmosphere at the stadium, and I think that the teams played well."

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

Speaking Saturday at a small Harare stadium, he said Zimbabwe had led the "fight over land" and encouraged Zimbabweans to also take over white and foreign-owned companies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Hundreds of dancers and singers, many of them dressed in traditional costumes, strutted behind a marching band to Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium for the dress rehearsal of Friday's World Cup opening ceremony.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Cape Town, on the south Atlantic coast, boasts a new 70,000-seat stadium with backdrops of the apartheid-era prison at Robben Island on one side and its iconic Table Mount on the other.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Major concerns over delays in the construction of facilities, including stadium updates and practice fields at a number of the eight venues spread across the country, seem to have been resolved at the last moment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The United States national soccer team accomplished what few believed they could Wednesday night in Bloemfontein, dominating the world's number one ranked team and leaving the stadium with a merited 2-0 victory and a ticket to the final of the Confederations Cup on Sunday night in Johannesburg.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24