Vienna’s most beautiful football grass is growing in the Happel Stadium-Diepresse.com
The Happel Stadium is considered a bone-up apple for sports and politics, even the lawn can beat holes in the Prater. The stalks, well -groomed and millimeter precisely, shine on 8000 m² playing area. Greenkeeper Bernhard Neubauer and manager Christian Eisterer refute prejudices. A visit.
In the Prater, not only the trees bloom, but also grow out of high -rise buildings like mushrooms. This contrast is revealed near the U2 station stadium: on the one hand, modernity is enthroned, on the other the time-honored, the Ernst Happel Stadium rests. The football stadium, built in 1929, has already experienced a lot, great football games, several European Cup evenings or wonderful concerts. The oval with a by-football European Championships in 2008 is undisputedly getting on in years, and yet, despite the growing criticism and flaming appeals, it serves athletes, clubs, associations or event operators as home.
Whether political bone-up apple, social gap mushroom or simple sports facility, in which Austria’s football team has now started the way to the 2026 World Cup with the qualification game against Romania: the Happel Stadium remains. The political decision of the SPÖ city government is not only since the budget shortage has the idea of a change (for now) off the table. For notorious naggers, this stadium is considered a listed memorial or ruin, which has recently even been wearing a photovoltaic system on the roof.
