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Portuguese Soccer Near Collapse After $1 Billion Arena Spending

Other smaller European soccer nations have chosen to foot the bill jointly. The previous host of the competition, which runs every four years, was Belgium and the Netherlands. Euro 2008 will be played in Austria and Switzerland. Two of the three bidders short-listed for the 2012 competition are doing so jointly.

"It was complete madness building so many stadiums," Artur Felipe, President of second-division leader Beira-Mar, said in a phone interview from Aveiro.

(via Blasfémias e Contrafactos&Argumentos)