Smoke billows out from the demolition site of the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, February 12, 2007. The dated stadium, where China got its first ticket to men's World Cup finals after defeating Oman in 2001, will be replaced with shopping centers. A new stadium is scheduled to be built at another site in the city for soccer matches of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. [Newsphoto]

Feb 12th witnesses theimplosionof Shengyang Wulihe Stadium in just 6.6 seconds, where Chinese soccer team has ever qualified for the Soccer World Cup,leadingweb portalsina.com reported yesterday.

China's soccer team won 1-0 in a match againstOmanthatadvancedthem to the Korea-Japan World Cup finals at this Stadium in the past four decades. Since then, Chinese soccer fans view the stadium as a place of good luck for the team and Chinese soccer.

Even though the local Soccer Fans Association did not receive authorization to organize any large-scale activity, a large number of people gathered nearby taking photos and videos of the demolition.

Security guards were stationed every five or six meters around the perimeter to maintain order as the destruction of the stadium is a sensitive issue for many fans.

（Agencies）

Vocabulary:

implosion：內爆拆除

web portal：門戶網站

Oman：阿曼隊

advance：出線

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）