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אצטדיון תומאס ד'אלסנדרו ג'וניור | |
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| Location | Kiryat Haim,Israel |
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| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Surface | Grass |
| Tenants | |
| Hapoel Haifa (Ligat ha'Al) (1930–1955) | |
Thomas D'Alesandro Stadium, also known asKiryat Haim Stadium, is amulti-purpose stadium inKiryat Haim,Israel. It is used mostly forassociation football matches and is the home stadium ofHapoel Haifa's youth teams. It used to be home to the first teams ofHapoel as well asMaccabi Haifa, but was replaced byKiryat Eliezer Stadium in 1955.
The stadium was built with help from theJewish community of Baltimore, Maryland and named for the mayor of Baltimore,Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., who was the father ofNancy Pelosi; he "helped lead the movement in the United States to garner government support for the establishment of a Jewish state."[1]
Pelosi loves to tell people that there's a soccer stadium named for him north of Haifa
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