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Dream come true: 1960s - a Football Stadium was planned to be constructed in Bangalore with Capacity of 90,000! #StateOfFootballInIndia 1/11 
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball It was to be a stadium with a 90,000 crowd capacity with a three-tier stand structure all around! #StateOfFootballInIndia 2/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball They called it "Bangalore Football Stadium" - supposed to be based on the famed Estádio do Maracanã in Brazil. #StateOfFootballInIndia 3/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Construction of this stadium began in 1967 with the eastern stands to be completed in 4 years by 1971. #StateOfFootballInIndia 4/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball 1967: FIFA President Havelange visited Bangalore to inaugurate work on the main stands of this dream stadium #StateOfFootballInIndia 5/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Havelange was so impressed with the plans that he promised to send teams from South America to play here. #StateOfFootballInIndia 6/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Fast Forward 2017: Dreams are sold, Areas around the proposed stadium are sold to private parties. #StateOfFootballInIndia 7/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Now we have a 7500 seater stadium, with no proper seating, no proper infra! #StateOfFootballInIndia 8/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Only one stand is now really usable and hardly has any match organized here now! #StateOfFootballInIndia 9/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball After almost 50 years it is again now given to Private builder to rebuilding and renovation. #StateOfFootballInIndia 10/11
@fni @superpowerfb @WestBlockBlues @IndianFootball @SK_IndFootball @TFGfootball Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. #StateOfFootballInIndia 11/11
