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The Stadium Algarve
was built in 2003-2004, beeing part of the network prepared to host
the Euro 2004 in Portugal. It was intended to be home of Sporting
Clube Farense and Louletano Desportos Clube, two football clubs
from Algarve. Unfortunately Sporting Clube Farense, an usual
performer of the major portuguese league faced serious finantial
problems and terminated its professional football activity. It
still plays a few amateur matches in the stadium but this was a
serious hit in the original plan. Louletano Desportos Clube is
currently disputing the portuguese II League.
This stadium has
capacity of 30.305 seats and it was designed by HOK S+V+E, an
australian company which also created Stadium of Luz (also known as
Stadium of Light, home of Sport Lisboa e Benfica) and the Olympic
Stadium of Sidney.
The first big event
that took place in this stadium was a friendly match, opposing
Portugal and England, which ended with a 1-1 draw. Then, it was the
Euro 2004. On the evening of 12th June, Spain beated Russia 1-0,
with a goal of Valerón at 60'. Mr. Urs Meier was the
referee.
One week later,
Greece, the future champion, suffered its only defeat against
Russia by 2-1. Finally, it hosted a long quarter-finals match
between the Netherlands and Sweden. 120 minutes of football weren't
enough. Winner was decided on the penalty mark.
Nowadays, besides the
matches involving the above mentioned football clubs, the stadium
is used for several categories of events:
- Concerts and Rock Festivals (Algarve Summer
Festival 2006 presented Black Eyed Peas, James Blunt, Melanie C,
Rui Veloso and Boss AC; Algarve Rocks 2006 presented Simple Minds,
Sean Paul and Pitty)
- Sports (friendly match Portugal 6 Luxembourg 0;
pre-season football Tournaments; PT Rally of Portugal
2006)
- Assorted shows, like the Beijing Acrobatic
Circus.
Easy cache, I believe.
Find the point in the given coordinates and collect the gate
numbers you can see from there. Attention now! We only want the two
yellow signs with black numbers.
Lets call them Y and Z (doesn't matter which comes first,
really).
Final
Coordinates:
Y +
Z = K
A = 424 + K
B = K + 17
N
37º.05.A
W
007.B.559
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