As preparations are underway to welcome the displaced people at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, pictures have emerged showing the sorry state this stadium has fallen into. There’s no grass left on the pitch, the seats on the stadium are either damaged or missing and the whole complex looks like it’s been abandoned for decades.
The same stadium that was rebuilt to host the 1997 Pan-Arab Games, the 2000 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup and the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie is now a neglected stadium being used as a storage space and a center for hosting the displaced people from the Israel war.
Such a shame!
Here’s a picture from 2018:
