Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium is a

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in Clermont, a

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. It is currently used mostly for

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matches and was selected as one of the 3 training venues of the

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after being renovated in 2010 and brought up to

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standards. The stadium's small capacity was expanded from 1,700 to 6,500 as a lasting legacy of the World Cup. The stadium is named after Cedric 'Sugar Ray' Xulu, a

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considered a living legend in

whose career in the 1960s led him to play for local side

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and

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