Stadiums named in honour of footballers Around the world, many stadiums are named after football legends

The stadium is the home of the fans. A gathering place where they share joys and sorrows, where they cheer for their favourites, sing and express all the passion they feel for football or any other sport. A meeting point, then, but not only. The stadiums are also the stage on which champions show off their qualities, delight the fans with breathtaking plays and make the fans' eyes sparkle. And there are those who become so inextricably linked to a club and the people who support it that, over the years, they come to have the stadium of the team whose colours they have defended named after them. 

Around the world, and especially in Italy, there are in fact many facilities named after club legends and flags. A way of paying homage to those who are no longer with us, but who have written the history of one or another team, but there are also those who are still alive and can enjoy the sight of a stadium dedicated to them. 

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Around the world there are also stadiums named after footballers (and former ones) who are still alive and can enjoy a facility dedicated to them. This is the case of Bacary Sagna, the former French full-back who in Sens, the Burgundy Franche-Comté town where he was born, had his pitch named after one of the small town's most prominent personalities. The same happened to Fernando Torres to whom the stadium of Fuenlabrada, a Spanish third division team and Nino's hometown, was dedicated. The Stade Didier Drogba is the stadium in which Levallois FC in France plays, the team in which the Ivorian striker first kicked a ball, and where a beautiful plaque in his honour has been put up outside the stadium.