FIFA are expected to announce Saudi Arabia as the host nation for the 2034 World Cup very soon but the organisers are already running into serious issues – with the construction of one of their biggest venues set to be scrapped.
Plans for one of the hosts’ most ambitious venues, a futuristic elevated football stadium 350m above sea level, are to be abandoned, despite £2billion having been spent on it already.
The NEOM stadium was sold as a one-of-a-kind sporting arena as a part of the 100-mile-long steel and glass structure known as The Line, a mirrored linear smart city meant to
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