MILAN - The Guinness International Champions Cup, which will be contested in the United States by eight of some of the top club teams in world football, is nearly here. Walter Mazzarri's team will take part in three games, just as the other participants will. Let’s take a closer look at some of the venues the Nerazzurri will play at.
Inter face a fascinating challenge on 1 August when they take on José Mourinho’s Chelsea. To host this enthralling encounter will be the beautiful Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The stadium, nicknamed "The Luke", was opened in 2008 and replaced the RCA Dome, which was used by the Indianapolis Colts football team of the NFL. It has a seating capacity of 63,000 and features a retractable roof. The total construction cost was $720 million, $120 million of which was paid for by the Lucas Oil corporation in order to obtain rights to the name for over 20 years. Among the peculiarities of the structure is the exterior, faced with a reddish-brown brick trimmed with Indiana Limestone (a typical stone of the region) in order to help the stadium blend in with many of the city’s historic buildings. In addition to being the home of the Colts, the ground also hosts other non-sports events, and in 2012 held Super Bowl XLVI (the championship final of the National Football League).
The next match, Valencia or AC Milan, will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The stadium was inaugurated in 2010 (for a series of three Bon Jovi concerts), replacing the historic Giants Stadium, and was constructed next to the legendary stadium that was replaced after 30 years of service. It is the home of both of the Big Apple’s NFL teams: the New York Giants and New York Jets. It is also the league’s only case of two teams from the same city sharing a stadium, not unlike that of our own Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. This all-seater can host 82,000 fans and has an exterior lighting system similar to that of Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena, allowing the colours to be changed according to the team it is hosting. The MetLife has been designated as the host stadium of Super Bowl XLVIII on 2 February 2014.
All the matches of the championship round will be played in Miami, Florida at the historic Sun Life Stadium. This ground was built in 1987 – originally named Joe Robbie Stadium – as the home to the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and the Miami Hurricanes of the NCAA (the organising body of athletic programmes of many colleges and universities in the United States). Until 2012 it hosted the home games of the Florida Marlins baseball team, which recently changed its name to the Miami Marlins and moved in a change of ownership. This all-seater hosts 75,000 fans and has hosted the Super Bowl five times, the last of which was in 2010, as well as two World Series (the championship finals of Major League Baseball).
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