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Once dead, could you move between levels/heavens? asked Potters Gate CE Primary School. Read what Dr. John F. Schwaller had to say.
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Official FIFA World Cup emblem, Mexico 1986 |
The Aztec Stadium, designed by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez (who also designed Mexico City’s celebrated National Anthropology Museum), was built in 1966, and is the second largest (capacity 114,000) football stadium in the world. It was in the stadium during the 1986 World Cup that the world famous ‘Mexican Wave’ first broke onto the international scene.
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Mexico City’s Aztec Stadium (Click on image to enlarge) |
For decades the Mexican team have sported a strip with a striking design based on the ultimate Aztec icon - the Sunstone or Calendar Stone. The ‘ghosted’ version in grey became very popular around the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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Mexico’s 1998 World Cup shirt design based on the Calendar Stone (Click on image to enlarge) |
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Mexicans learn to love football from before they’re born! (Click on image to enlarge) |
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