Tự Do Stadium or Sân vận động Tự Do is located in the center of
Huế City,
Thừa Thiên–Huế Province,
Vietnam
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. It has a capacity of 25,000
seats. The stadium was constructed by the
French colonialists in the early 1930s, at which time it was given the name "Stade Olympique de Hué". Then, the Nguyễn court renamed it Stadium Long Bao (commemorating King
Bảo Đại
Bảo Đại (, vi-hantu, , lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 191331 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was em ...
and Queen
Nam Phương
Empress Nam Phương (4 December 1914 – 16 September 1963), born Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, was the last empress consort of Vietnam. She was the wife of Bảo Đại (), the last emperor of Vietnam (officially named as Đại ...
's son
Bảo Long
:''In the Vietnamese name below,'' Nguyễn ''is the surname.''
Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Long (4 January 1936 – 28 July 2007) was the eldest son of Bảo Đại, Vietnam's last emperor. He headed the House of Nguyễn Phúc from 30 Ju ...
).
Tự Do stadium is the home field of the
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club
Huda Hue F.C. (the first football club in Thừa Thiên–Huế).
References
Football venues in Vietnam
Buildings and structures in Huế
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