{"id":1239,"date":"2014-01-31T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2014-01-31T23:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:43:38","slug":"1239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/1239\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid Unveils New Bernabeu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Real Madrid president Florentino Perez wants to make the Santiago Bernabeu &#8216;the best stadium in the world&#8217; after unveiling plans for its redevelopment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The estimated 400million euro (\u00a3328million) revamp will be led by German architects GMP along with international firm L-35 and Catalan firm Ribas &amp; Ribas following an international tender process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A new exterior will be built, and from the mock-ups shown on Friday, a retractable roof will also be included in the project which will take three years to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perez said at the unveiling of the plans: &#8216;It&#8217;s time to face another challenge has come, we want to make the Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Our commitment is to continue increasing the heritage of our club, thus gain in economic strength, so we can continue to lead in an environment of increasing competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8221;We believe in a project that will enhance our image, brand and city that we also feel proud of.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid president Florentino Perez wants to make the Santiago Bernabeu &#8216;the best stadium in the world&#8217; after unveiling plans for its redevelopment. The estimated 400million euro (\u00a3328million) revamp will be led by German architects GMP along with international firm L-35 and Catalan firm Ribas &amp; Ribas following an international tender process. A new exterior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}