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THE Club World Cup kicks off this Saturday and preparations are underway in the United States.
Some of the globe’s top clubs will take part in a new-look tournament over the next month, each battling for a place in the final on July 13 in New Jersey.
With 32 teams competing, some of the biggest and most iconic stadiums in the US have been selected as host venues.
From the MetLife Stadium to Lincoln Financial Field, SunSport has looked at each of the grounds in preparation for the tournament.
The Rose Bowl is an 88,700-capacity stadium located in Pasedena, California.
First opened in 1922, the venue primarily hosted American football games throughout its early years.
It instantly became home to the Rose Bowl Game, a yearly college football game played on New Year’s Day.
In addition, the Rose Bowl has played host to five Super Bowl games, the most recent being in 1992.
Although it is primarily recognised for its American football history, the stadium is also used for regular football.
It hosted the 1994 World Cup final and the 1999 Women’s World Cup final.
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Furthermore, the US men’s national team has played there 17 times and it was previously the home fo LA Galaxy for six years.
The Rose Bowl has also hosted some huge entertainment events and concerts.
The likes of Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Green Day have all played there.
Oasis are scheduled to perform at the stadium in September this year.
The MetLife Stadium is an 82,500-capacity stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
It is the designated venue for the Club World Cup final this summer, which is set for July 13.
Opened just 15 years ago, the stadium – which cost an estimated $1.6billion (£1.2bn) to build – has played host to numerous NFL games and is now home to the New York Jets and the New York Giants.
It also hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, which was won by the Seattle Seahawks.
The US men’s national team has played there on several occasions, with some pre-season friendlies having taken place at the ground as well – including a match between Arsenal and Manchester United in 2023 and one between Barcelona and Real Madrid last year.
In addition, the likes of Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Elton John, Lady Gaga and P!nk are among the stars to have performed there.
Taylor Swift also performed three dates of her iconic Eras Tour at the MetLife Stadium two years ago and had a record-breaking total attendance of 217,625 fans across the weekend.
The Bank of America Stadium is a 74,800-capacity venue in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Opened in 1996, the stadium has continued hosting every Carolina Panthers game.
It is also the home of MLS team Charlotte FC, founded six years ago.
In addition, several international football matches and club friendlies have taken place there.
The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar and SZA are all among the acts to have performed there.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a 71,000-seater venue in Atlanta, Georgia.
Opened in August 2017, it is one of the youngest stadiums on this list and cost an estimated $1.6bn to build.
The venue has played host to several high school and college American football events alongside NFL games.
It hosted Super Bowl LIII in 2019, which was won by the New England Patriots.
And it is next due to host the showpiece NFL event in 2028, as announced in October last year.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is also home to MLS team Atlanta United.
Atlanta have played every home match at the venue since moving there from the Bobby Dodd Stadium in the year it was opened.
Several international matches have been played there as well, including two in the 2024 Copa America.
Coldplay, Taylor Swift and Beyonce are among the superstars to have played concerts there
Lincoln Financial Field is a 77,900-seater stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It was opened in August 2003 and is home to Super Bowl winners the Philadelphia Eagles.
The stadium also hosts games for the Temple Owls football team of Temple University.
Although it is primarily known for American football, regular football has been played there on several occasions.
Some international games have taken place at Lincoln Financial Field, as well as some club friendlies.
It even played host to four group games at the 2003 Women’s World Cup.
At this summer’s Club World Cup, seven matches will be played there in total, including a quarter-final.
Some of the world’s biggest music acts have also played at the stadium.
Based in Seattle, Lumen Field has a capacity of 68,740 and is home to NFL team Seattle Seahawks, MLS team Seattle Sounders and NWSL outfit Seattle Reign.
It opened in 2002 and cost an estimated $752million (£554m) to build.
It is used for both American and regular football, putting it in good stead to host three group stage games and three knockout games at this year’s Club World Cup.
A temporary grass surface is set to be installed especially for the event.
The Hard Rock Stadium is a 65,000-capacity venue based Miami, Florida.
It is home to the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and college American football team the Miami Hurricanes.
The stadium has played host to numerous major events over the years, including six Super Bowls and two World Series.
It has also held some regular football games – including the 2024 Copa America final between Argentina and Colombia.
Eight Club World Cup matches are set to be played there, including the opening match betweem Al-Ahly and Inter Miami.
In addition, Paul McCartney, Guns N’ Roses, Madonna, Taylor Swift and Beyonce are among the music artists to have performed there on their respective tours.
The Camping World Stadium was opened in late 1936 and is located in Orlando, Florida – less than a mile away from the Inter&Co Stadium, which is also set to host Club World Cup matches.
It has continued to host different sports – mainly American and regular football – over the years.
From 2017 to 2020 it held the NFL Pro Bowl, which then returned last year under the new title of Pro Bowl Games.
In terms of football, matches were held there in both the men’s and women’s competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games.
MLS side Orlando City played there from 2015 to 2016, as did NWSL team Orlando Pride when they were established nine years ago.
Four Club World Cup games will be held there, including a round-of-16 match and a quarter-final.
It has a capacity of 65,000.
Just a short walk from the Camping World Stadium is the Inter&Co Stadium in downtown Orlando.
It is a football-specific venue that is the home of MLS side Orlando City and NWSL club Orlando Pride.
Opened in 2017, it has a capacity of 25,500 and cost around $155m to build.
As well as club football, several international games – both men’s and women’s – have taken place there.
The stadium will host two games for the Club World Cup.
Geodis Park is a 30,109-seater football-specific stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee.
It has been the home of MLS club Nashville SC for the last three years and has also hosted a number of international games.
Three Club World Cup group stages matches will be held at the venue, which cost an estimated $335m to build, this summer.
Guns N’ Roses and Green Day have both played concerts there in recent years.
Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, the TQL stadium is a 26,000-seater football-specific venue that is the home of FC Cincinnati.
It was opened just four years ago and cost around $250m to build.
FC Cincinnati have played every home game at the stadium since it was opened, with some international games also taking place there.
Four Club World Cup games will be played there, with the first on June 15.
Audi Field is a football-specific venue in Washington D.C.
It is the home of MLS club D.C. United as well as women’s teams DC Power and Washington Spirit.
Having cost $450m to build, it opened in 2018 with a match between D.C. United and Vancouver Whitecaps.
International games have also taken place at the stadium.
Three Club World Cup games will take place at Audi Field this summer.
PERU Two drug mule Michaella McCollum has warned Brit tourists about how trafficking gangs lure young girls into their criminal operations.
The infamous drug trafficker served three years behind bars in 2013 alongside Melissa Reid after they were handpicked to smuggle £1.5million worth cocaine into Peru.
Since being freed from a hellhole jail in Lima, McCollum transformed her life and is now a mum and public speaker.
Part of her work includes exposing how foreign drug operations try and recruit British mules.
The 31-year-old appeared on Good Morning Britain this morning to speak on the increasing danger of Brits being preyed upon abroad.
It comes after a spate of young women being arrested on trafficking charges including Bella May Culley, 18, and Charlotte May Lee, 21.
McCollum told Susanna Reid that people are often picked by drug chiefs specifically due to how vulnerable they appear.
She explained: “That’s what they do these organisations, they have people that are pickers and their job is to pick people to become mules.
“They’ll target vulnerabilities which might be age because at 19 or 20 you’re incredibly naive, you’re easy to manipulate.
“Then women as well as obviously women tend to be groomed and coerced in situations a lot more.
“Then whether you have a drug addiction as that could also be a vulnerability.”
McCollum was aged 19 at the time of her first being recruited with her Peru Two partner Reid being only 20.
She has also been open about her drug habits around the time of her arrest as she believes this contributed to her recruitment.
Bella Culley – the teen arrested in Georgia last month – was seen smoking in videos shared to her social media in the weeks before she was stopped at the border and detained.
Michaella also revealed that the drug kingpins ordering young women to become traffickers are masters at manipulation.
She says that when she was first coerced into taking a suitcase of cocaine across the border her bosses convinced her that everything would be okay.
Michaella was made to feel like a “little girl” when she questioned the dangers of smuggling, she said.
Her concerns were always met with simple solutions, she added.
She recalled once asking about how they would get the drugs through the airport before being told the airport staff is in cahoots with the operations being carried out and allow them.
By the time she realised the answers were a lie, Michaelle said she was already in handcuffs.
She continued: “You have to understand that the level of manipulation that goes on behind it as it’s not just overnight, it can be weeks of manipulation.
“They ended up making me believe that this was totally fine. I was being dramatic, I was being naive to question it.
“So I was so scared to say no and men know they can manipulate women to do things and I was so scared to just say no.”
Both Peru Two mules became friends when holidaying in Ibiza in August 2013 and were soon coerced into cocaine trafficking.
But in October, they were arrested as they stepped off a lane in Lima, Peru.
McCollum and Reid were convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to six years and eight months in a dismal Ancon 2 prison.
At the time, the pair’s horror trip led them to becoming household names as they both admitted to being used by the gangs.
In recent weeks, a string of British women have faced similar worrying experiences after being recruited by foreign gangs.
A couple claiming to be tourists from Thailand were busted with more than 33kg of cannabis in their suitcases at a Spanish airport in May.
By Patrick Harrington, Foreign News Reporter
Police Lieutenant Colonel Arun Musikim, Deputy Inspector of the Surat Thani province police force, said: “Cases involving British nationals smuggling cannabis have been around for a while.
“There is a lot of cannabis grown on Thailand’s islands in the south because the climate is suitable and it is legal. A lot of gangs are attracted to this.
“There are now various smuggling methods that we have seen. Some carry it themselves, some hire backpackers, and some send it via mail.
“This year, there have been many cases we have intercepted. Most involve British and Malaysian nationals.
“It’s easy for British citizens to travel as they can enter Thailand and return to the UK without needing a visa.
“Most of the smugglers are people hired to carry the cannabis, similar to how tourists might smuggle tax-free goods.
“They’re usually unemployed individuals from the UK. The gangs offer them flights, pocket money and hotel stays, just to come and travel and take a bag back home with them.
“These people often have poor social standing at home and are looking for ways to earn quick money. They find them through friends or on social media.
“Many will go to festivals or parties while they are here, just like they are having a normal trip abroad.
“They are told that it is easy and they will not be caught. Then the amount the organisers can sell the cannabis for in the UK is much higher than it costs in Thailand.
“Police suspect that there are multiple employers and groups receiving the drugs on the other end. The cannabis then enters the UK market.
“We are being vigilant to ensure there are no routes out of the country.”
A British OnlyFans model was also caught allegedly smuggling nearly £200,000 worth of Thai cannabis into Spain.
But the two largest and most concerning cases covered Bella and Charlotte.
Bella sparked a massive international search operation in early May after she was reported missing while holidaying in Thailand.
However, it was later revealed that the teen, from Billingham, County Durham, had been arrested 4,000 miles away on drug offences in Georgia.
She was allegedly carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis into the ex-Soviet nation.
Around the same time, 21-year-old Charlotte Lee May, from Coulsdon, south London, was also arrested in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo after police discovered 46 kg of ‘Kush’ – a synthetic strain of cannabis – in her suitcase.
The former flight attendant is now facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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LIDL is selling a nifty £7.99 BBQ tool that can help you make crispy pizzas.
The German discounter is launching the Grillmeister round pizza stone in stores from Thursday (June 12).
The stone is placed on BBQs and uses heat from the coals to cook your favourite flavour.
Lidl says the stone is moisture-absorbing too making for “extra crispy pizzas”.
The nifty piece of cooking tech, measuring 38cm across, comes with a three-year warranty.
Of course, whenever buying something like this make sure you shop around to ensure you’re getting the best deal.
Just because Lidl is offering a pizza stone for £7.99 doesn’t mean you can’t get one cheaper elsewhere.
Use websites like Price Spy, Price Runner and Trolley to compare prices on thousands of products across the major retailers.
You can do a quicker scan by using the Google Product/Shopping tab as well.
We had a look across the major retailers to see if any are selling a similar BBQ pizza stone for less than £7.99 and couldn’t find any.
The next cheapest is Asda which is selling one for £10, then Tesco which has one in stock for £13.99.
If you’re keen on Lidl’s pizza stone, you won’t be able to order it for home delivery as the retailer doesn’t offer this service.
You’ll have to be quick if you want to pick one up in-store as well as it’s a middle aisle buy meaning once it’s gone it’s gone.
You can find your nearest Lidl store by visiting lidl.co.uk/c/store-finder/s10023098.
If the BBQ pizza stone doesn’t take your fancy, Lidl has plenty of other middle aisle products on sale that might.
The discounter is selling a £6 foldable backpack that’s perfect for summer holidays abroad.
TAKEAWAY pizzas taste great but they can hit you hard on your wallet. Here are some tips on how to save on pizza:
Cashback websites – TopCashback and Quidco will pay you to order your pizza through them. They’re paid by retailers for every click that comes to their website from the cashback site, which eventually trickles down to you. So you’ll get cashback on orders placed through them.
Discount codes – Check sites like VoucherCodes for any discount codes you can use to get money off your order.
Make you own topping – One savvy customer noticed that Domino’s charges up to 70p MORE for pizzas on its menu compared to ordering the same one through the “create your own” option. It’s worth trying out to see if it makes a difference before you place your next order.
Buy it from the shops – It might not taste exactly the same but you’ll save the most money by picking up your favourite pizza from your local supermarket. Some Asda stores sell freshly made ones from the pizza counter where prices start at £2.
The retailer’s sell-out pizza oven is back in shops for £79.99 too.
Lidl reduces items at the start of the day, and the best deals can be found between 7am and 8am, when most stores open.
Shoppers can often find cooked meats, salmon fillets and breads reduced by 30% or more.
Lidl also has its own knock-offs of branded alcohol offering some bargain prices.
If you are hoping to avoid spending more than you planned on Middle of Lidl items, you can check what will be in the “Middle of Lidl” on the supermarket’s website in advance too.
The Middle of Lidl is refreshed every Thursday and Sunday.
Shoppers can also keep tabs on what’s appearing in the “Pick of the Week” section on the Lidl website.
The discounts happen every Thursday and are usually on fruit, vegetables, and meat.
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