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UEFA Champions League Final generates 68 percent audience share in Portugal

The final of the UEFA Champions League between FC Porto and AS Monaco attracted some pleasing viewing figures, and not only in Portugal, which registered a sensational audience share of 68 percent. Mehr...
 
Triumph in blue and white: FC Porto win UEFA Champions League Final in the Arena

It was a scenario to warm the hearts of Schalke supporters everywhere. At the end of the UEFA Champions League Final between FC Porto and AS Monaco the Arena AufSchalke was awash with a sea of jubilant fans dressed in blue and white. The Portuguese champions lifted the most important trophy in club football with a surprisingly clear-cut 3-0 victory. Mehr...
 
"Arena is the best stadium I've ever played in", says Morientes

Although he was unable to make his dream of winning the UEFA Champions League for the fourth time come true, Fernando Morientes was still full of praise for the Arena AufSchalke after the final. And the Spanish international wasn't alone in his assessment. Mehr...
 
Bayern interested in man of the match Deco

Man of the match in the final between FC Porto and AS Monaco was Anderson Luis de Suza, or Deco as he is known. After the final whistle the gifted playmaker was asked about a possible move to Germany. Mehr...
 
Football, operas, pop concerts, winter sport - the Arena AufSchalke registers more than four million spectators in less than three years

On 13 August 2001 a new age began for FC Schalke 04. At an inauguration ceremony full of atmosphere the Royal Blues ushered in the era of the Arena AufSchalke. The traditional German club had built itself a new home, a home that in terms of functionality and modernity represented a quantum leap, not only in comparison with its predecessor, the Park Stadium. With its retractable pitch, closable roof, movable South Stand and videocube, the Arena immediately assumed the mantle of Europe's most modern stadium. Hi-tech that ensures that football matches can be staged in front of 61,000 fans (and more than 70,000 for pop concerts) 365 days a year. More...

 
The Ruhr - the region of unexpected opportunity, short distances and straight talking

Coal, steel and smoking chimneys, football and allotments - images people associate with the Ruhr to this day. The clichés cling on stubbornly, even though they have been obsolete for a long time. Hardly any other region in central Europe has undergone as big a transformation in recent decades as the Ruhr. The coal mines have been closed, the blast furnaces taken out of service. Hi-tech, retail and services are the economic sectors of the future. More...