Lets see some pictures of dressing rooms

Ill start:

Arsenal:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2175151991_110959f382.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1404/582209089_7d74c2eeff.jpg?v=0
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

Bayern Munich:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/48240128_2a5eb3104e.jpg?v=0

Wow, Bayern has a shitty locker room.

The Arsenal looks better or what?

Real Madrid:

http://www.realmadrid-futbol.com/Bernabeu_vestuario.jpg

http://www.realmadrid-futbol.com/Bernabeu_vestuario-1.jpg

Buffalo Sabres (Photo credit goes to Mike Lynaugh) http://www.mikelynaugh.com/sabres-thrashers/index.htm

http://www.mikelynaugh.com/sabres-thrashers/images/IMG_4040.jpg
http://www.mikelynaugh.com/sabres-thrashers/images/IMG_4045.jpg
http://www.mikelynaugh.com/sabres-thrashers/images/IMG_4051.jpg
http://www.mikelynaugh.com/sabres-thrashers/images/IMG_4056.jpg

San Francisco Giants:

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/_photos/2006/05/23/topper-clubhouse.jpg

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/_photos/2006/05/23/clubhouse-large.jpg

FC Porto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0U-Dyhw8k

Real Madrid:

http://www.realmadrid-futbol.com/Bernabeu_vestuario.jpg

http://www.realmadrid-futbol.com/Bernabeu_vestuario-1.jpg

this is the type of thing that makes players think they are better then everyone :ohno: Real manage to do this alot.

With 9 CL titles they have good reason to feel like that though.

With 9 CL titles they have good reason to feel like that though.

Who cares?

San Francisco Giants:

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/_photos/2006/05/23/topper-clubhouse.jpg

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/_photos/2006/05/23/clubhouse-large.jpg

ROID ROOM!

this is the type of thing that makes players think they are better then everyone :ohno: Real manage to do this alot.

Im with you, other than that, what a lame room.

Dallas Mavericks

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/lg_locker.jpg

Future Dallas Cowboys Locker Room

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Picture2.png

Omg, it's a changing room not an entertainment centre!!

Dallas Mavericks

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/lg_locker.jpg

Future Dallas Cowboys Locker Room

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Picture2.png

Jesus Christ. Suppose it's the different mentality in sports that make the American sports teams prefer their locker rooms to look like a sporting good store that threw up over a third rate carpet emporium.

Jesus Christ. Suppose it's the different mentality in sports that make the American sports teams prefer their locker rooms to look like a sporting good store that threw up over a third rate carpet emporium.


In the US you have free agents and college recruiting. Locker rooms have to be luxurious and amenity laden. A plain locker room would be considered high school like.

University of Texas

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/image_lib/locker_room_530.jpg

Texas A&M University
http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/facilities/images2004/full/footballlocker.jpg

should also add that football(American) is very locker room centered for players. Coaches and players pretty much live in these places during the season. Bigtime "bunker mentality" in football(American). You'd better be comfortable.

Rantanamo has a great point. Its all about impressing people today. Catch up Europe!
haha

Also, that's the Cowboys, remember. Of all the NFL teams, they're likely to have the most extravagant of everything.

actually i think the UT one is more extravagant then the Cowboys.

Rumour has it that the referees changing rooms provided by the Juventus Club of Turin was actually a 5 star hotel suite with women, gifts and other luxuries thrown in to help the black and whites win championship after championship in suspicious circumstances.

This all changed after Juventus was busted for 'influencing matches and officials' a few years ago. Well, I would not exactly be surprised if it still goes on judging by Juventus' latest results.

What is odd, is the ownership of Juventus were never dragged over the coals, only the lackey's were vanquished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itG1ItgUNNs

Here is Barca.

I don't like those USA style dressing rooms at all...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Picture2.png

:uh:

Lets see some pictures of dressing rooms

Ill start:

Arsenal:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2175151991_110959f382.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1404/582209089_7d74c2eeff.jpg?v=0
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

Bayern Munich:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/48240128_2a5eb3104e.jpg?v=0


these are the best dressing rooms

these are the best dressing rooms

Agree...keep it simple and stupid...It's a f***ing dressing room not some fancy night club

these are the best dressing rooms

They're great for soccer, but it simply wouldn't work for other sports where one spends more time in the locker room, or simply has more equipment needs. They remind me of what we'd see in a visitors locker room that are built to get in and get out. I'm guessing their dressing rooms at their training facilities are more akin to what you're seeing for the US dressing rooms.

You guys are really gonna hate Cooley Pavillion at UT. Definitely rivals our football locker room

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper410/stills/twm3w4r1.jpg
[img]http://www.texassports.com/images/photo_gallery/2003_04/mbb/022404_vitale/images/lockerroom.jpg

Ya, in football, all of the post game interviews are conducted in the locker room. So it is one of the single most important rooms in the building. It has to sell the teams image as much as the team and stadium do. And also its all about making the players feel relaxed. THose European ones look like the dressing room i had in middle school, our varsity high school locker room was better and fancier than any of those in Europe u showed.

Ya, in football, all of the post game interviews are conducted in the locker room. So it is one of the single most important rooms in the building. It has to sell the teams image as much as the team and stadium do. And also its all about making the players feel relaxed. THose European ones look like the dressing room i had in middle school, our varsity high school locker room was better and fancier than any of those in Europe u showed.

Well rantanamo's and most of your argumention is very sensible and I hadn't actually taken into account the different equipment needs e.g. for American Football and NHL etc., or even further the need for space to conduct postgame interviews.

Still, can't help as a style concious (*badum-tisch*) European to smirk a bit when I see two Texans advocate incredibly tacky locker rooms :D

Were a show me state! ;)

If you have ever seen a post game interview for a football game, you would realize why these locker rooms have to be so big and "attractive" Those guys are huge! Most of them are black...(most black players like to be pampered in style) and then you have to fit the coaching stff, trainers, press, owner, public relations, friends of player, special guest, etc and etc

everybody knows that sport in US is very comercialised :ohno:

Yep, that's why we have ads on our uniforms and next to the playing field

Yep, that's why we have ads on our uniforms and next to the playing field

just what i was about to say

but European players do not act like American players (most of them). Luxury is not the most important in European sport, but luxury in US is the most important (that is the image we get)


Other example is rugby vs american football...
It's even funny to compare it :dunno:
-European players play without protection on real grass with simple dressing rooms
American Football players play with protection on an artificial grass and their dressing rooms look like night clubs what landDK said before me.

Not to mention rules in both of games:
There's radio conection between coach and players in American football
In rugby that is not the case
In rugby there isn't so much interruptions of the game as in Am football....

And this one sport isn't the only difference between EU and American sport

Not to mention that usually soccer/football players earn more than NFL players for example and yet they are not that arrogant.

The Arsenal dressing room would be used for a very short period of time in comparison to the Gridiron ones. Players only use them on matchdays.They get in there an hour before and are out an hour after. Virtually all of the coaching, training and contact with the media is elsewhere.
Arsenal's Training Centre covers an area of 143 acres,and has a dedicated press briefing building where the players and staff fulfil their media requirements. It consists of 10 interview rooms and a press conference room, seating up to 100 people.
How many players do those Gridiron dressing rooms cater for?

Yeah, you also have to remember just how much they're used in American sports.

In baseball, you play 80 home games EACH YEAR. I'm surprised they haven't started incorporating the players hotel right into the clubhouse. Football, though you only have up to 10 home games, you have 50 guys playing, the entire staff, and spending a ton of time underneath during practices, training, film study, etc.

But still, no one needs a room as lavish as the Cowboys' new one...

but European players do not act like American players (most of them). Luxury is not the most important in European sport, but luxury in US is the most important (that is the image we get)


Other example is rugby vs american football...
It's even funny to compare it :dunno:
-European players play without protection on real grass with simple dressing rooms
American Football players play with protection on an artificial grass and their dressing rooms look like night clubs what landDK said before me.

Not to mention rules in both of games:
There's radio conection between coach and players in American football
In rugby that is not the case
In rugby there isn't so much interruptions of the game as in Am football....

And this one sport isn't the only difference between EU and American sport

The Helmet radios cut of after the play clock is down the 15 seconds, and most teams dont even use it.

Also rugby is a scrum sport filled with dog piles and group shoves. Football is one on one contact with receivers jumping 10 feet in the air to get a ball then being speared by a 250 pound strong safety before they hit the ground.

Not dogging on Rugby, I played in a a league for 3 years when i live in Dallas but the 2 sports are to different to realy compare.

Not to mention that usually soccer/football players earn more than NFL players for example and yet they are not that arrogant.

Soccer Players are so over payed though. Not as bad as baseball players but still pretty bad.

The Arsenal dressing room would be used for a very short period of time in comparison to the Gridiron ones. Players only use them on matchdays.They get in there an hour before and are out an hour after. Virtually all of the coaching, training and contact with the media is elsewhere.
Arsenal's Training Centre covers an area of 143 acres,and has a dedicated press briefing building where the players and staff fulfil their media requirements. It consists of 10 interview rooms and a press conference room, seating up to 100 people.
How many players do those Gridiron dressing rooms cater for?

53 player roster, 10 man coaching staff, trainers, personal trainers, national and local media (dallas cowboys always draw national media)

Also pro football locker rooms are only used game day as well. The Cowboys practice facility is 10 miles north in Valley Ranch, not as nice as what the new stadium will be because the practice facility is all about business.

Valley ranch Practice Facility for the Dallas Cowboys in the off season
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Phillips-Jerry2_330.jpg

Not to mention that usually soccer/football players earn more than NFL players for example and yet they are not that arrogant.

Maybe soccer players in Croatia aren't spoiled and arrogant because the Croatian league is not glamorous but to suggest that soccer players in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France are anything but arrogant is laughable. You should know it better than anyone else. After losing to Croatia a couple of months ago, all the English players kept on coming up with one excuse or another, with Michael Owen being the biggest tosser I've ever seen in my life.

Also, all these generalizations are getting extremely annoying. "Oh, America needs nightclubs-esque changing rooms because it is blah blah blah"....you don't hear college football fans ragging on European fans for sitting under roofed stands "Oh, Euro fans needs roofed stands because they are blah blah blah". Honestly, some people on here need to grow the eff up.

Don't compare English NT with others, thats other world... their results are just pure reflection of their behavior. Croatian league players are some of most arrogant overpaid wankers ever, thats why our top clubs flop in European competitions :) But dunno, when i watch NBA and see how there is barely any team play there and how all those players just do solo actions to get their statistic improved... whats that if not arrogant ? :)

Don't compare English NT with others, thats other world... their results are just pure reflection of their behavior. Croatian league players are some of most arrogant overpaid wankers ever, thats why our top clubs flop in Europe :) But dunno, when i watch NBA and see how there is barely any team play there and how all those players just do solo actions to get their statistic improved... whats that if not arrogant ? :)

I do agree about the NBA, but you Gotta watch the good Teams (SanAntonio, Dallas, Detroit and Phoenix) There all team ball. The bad teams have the SUPER STARS that are ball hogs but cant win.

Don't compare English NT with others, thats other world... their results are just pure reflection of their behavior. Croatian league players are some of most arrogant overpaid wankers ever, thats why our top clubs flop in Europe :) But dunno, when i watch NBA and see how there is barely any team play there and how all those players just do solo actions to get their statistic improved... whats that if not arrogant ? :)

That is a pretty poor reason to call everyone arrogant. First of all, there is team play in the NBA. Just because they aren't passing the ball around 20 times in 24 seconds doesn't mean they are looking to get points themselves. Keeping possession at certain times is better because if you can't penetrate or find someone open, passing the ball around is a waste of effort and an unwarranted risk, considering the chances of the ball being stolen.

Also, its not like everyone is doing whatever that they feel like doing. The coach or the PG calls a play, and the other four guys on the court comply. If the play requires the centre to hold onto the ball and try to score down-low on the block, that is what he is going to do.

NBA= individualism
Euroleague= Team play

i love the NBA, go PHX, but the NBA is so individual its all able one on one hence it not allowing zone defense till the 90's and having the defensive 3 second rule. Also you can see the NBA's individualism ideas in its court dimensions. Its a longer court and bigger 3 point line all to create more room for the highfliers and stars to do their thing without being shutdown by a team defense, also the key is smaller to enable the bigs to get closer without incurring the offensive 3 second rule therefore being able to throw down more dunks and why does the NBA do this? Because all this action means more money and more money is what Americans want.

On the football subject I think England are a bunch of cry babies, firstly I am Croatian so I was supporting a Croatia and England qualification but after I read in some English news paper online that this expert doesn’t think England should need to go into qualifiers I was compelled to start to support Russia therefore I am overjoyed that England didn’t get into the comp because maybe they’ll wake u to their own arrogance for once. Go Liverpool.

Soccer Players are so over payed though. Not as bad as baseball players but still pretty bad.

Soccer players are not over payed! idn why people always think that. The average annual salary in 2003-04 for players of the english premier league, which is the one of the best and most commercialized of soccer leagues was 1.3million USD. MLS players cant earn more than like 80 000 USD a year! so i dont think anyone can say that is bad.

Soccer players are not over payed! idn why people always think that. The average annual salary in 2003-04 for players of the english premier league, which is the one of the best and most commercialized of soccer leagues was 1.3million USD. MLS players cant earn more than like 80 000 USD a year! so i dont think anyone can say that is bad.

US soccer player dont earn allot because we know not to over pay for a boring product....im having a hard time trying to figure out why we pay baseball players so much..that game is sheer boredom.

back to dressing rooms

Guys i wish i could find the University of Kentucky's locker rooms at rupp arena. Because they are Amazing with a capital 'A'

Soccer players are not over payed! idn why people always think that. The average annual salary in 2003-04 for players of the english premier league, which is the one of the best and most commercialized of soccer leagues was 1.3million USD. MLS players cant earn more than like 80 000 USD a year! so i dont think anyone can say that is bad.

80k ? Come on... that is low even for mediocre league like Cro

Locker Room of Werder Bremen:

http://www.weserstadion.de/html/bilder/galerie/impressionen/images/previews/preview3.jpg
http://www.weserstadion.de/html/bilder/galerie/impressionen/images/previews/preview2.jpg

ManU:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/1923172378_3a225c2a0b_o.jpg

Wembley changing rooms:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41953000/jpg/_41953944_changingrooms416.jpg

AC Milan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHh0ATGvvw

FC Inter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9YnP2wV60

Chelsea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5ecuxLVHo

Liverpool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwE9nDQFfHM

Manchester United:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsbaDKgNe8

Everton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3ROiK0Tb0

West Ham:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4DRa5PcgI

Tottenham Hotspurs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OKZzG9JUP0

Real Madrid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPIgGoXPPbw

This kind of gives you an idea of an American football dressing room when in use:

http://www.seahawks.com/uploadedImages/Seahawks/PressReleases/Lockerroom570_0126.jpg

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2007/01/16/2003527470.jpg

I think the idea behind American football dressing rooms is to accommodate 53 extremely large players, their gear, the staff, the coaches, equipment, and related accoutrement. So. It's not about American grandiosity. It's a logistics issue for this sport.

^ Notice the difference in the pics. The top is likely their team facility. Just look at the ceiling and notice the large stocked out console to the right, while the bottom pic looks like their in a visiting stadium locker room.

We are not talking about the size of a dressing room but about its luxury:

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/image_lib/locker_room_530.jpg

^^
Looks like Master P's living room and not a dressing room:D

I like those US locker rooms.
But I think that having those couches and carpets in there is a bit unhygienic?
I mean youre dirty and sweating after a game and then youll go in there.
Its probably quite difficult to keep it all clean.

I think this is the Patriots locker room under construction:

http://www.thomasscott.net/america/pictures/lockerroom.jpg

A Pats player with media and gear (to underscore the spacial dynamics):

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/PatsBlog/archives/samuel0828.jpg

The Packers locker room:

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/packer/img/news/jul02/lock722.jpg

http://www2.jsonline.com/packer/image/jan00/lambeau.jpg

The Packers locker room:

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/packer/img/news/jul02/lock722.jpg

http://www2.jsonline.com/packer/image/jan00/lambeau.jpg

Man i hate the packers, but they know there a legendary team and so do you when you see this.

Chelsea

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/304417876_05de15d2a1_o.jpg

AC Milan

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1134/1491347514_55c07375b1_b.jpg

AC Milan

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1134/1491347514_55c07375b1_b.jpg

HAHAHAHA:nuts:
They cant even see the TV when there sitting down. Its like the Enterprise...BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! I cant Capen, I...JUST..DONT...HAVE....THE POWER!!!!!!:lol:

PARIS SAINT GERMAIN:

http://www.psg.fr/fr/matches/gallery/galleryimage/cp_4298e283b84932.jpg

http://www.psg.fr/images/diaporama/2815.jpg

http://www.psg.fr/images/splash/splsh18.jpg

No fancy bullshit locker room...the fancy stuff is on the pitch:)

Fancy on pitch with PSG playing ? Nice joke :)

Are you sure that's AC Milan's dressing room? I've done the San Siro tour and the changing rooms look nothing like that. The facilities I saw were very sparse, not what you would expect. There were only 10 shower heads to. In Werder Bremen's changing do they leave towel's to reserve their place?

That AC Milan dressing room is one of the weirdest things i've ever seen! :lol: Those seats look like they've come from a rollercoaster.

Are you sure that's AC Milan's dressing room? I've done the San Siro tour and the changing rooms look nothing like that. The facilities I saw were very sparse, not what you would expect. There were only 10 shower heads to. In Werder Bremen's changing do they leave towel's to reserve their place?
If you look at this video it seems like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHh0ATGvvw

wow, what a waste if those screens are just used to tell you whos spot that is.

PSV Eindhoven:

http://www.psv.nl/upload/163065_661_1192694902475-NieuweKleedkamer468.jpg

http://www.cyclomedia.nl/File/Image/PSV_2.jpg

I know the Buffalo Sabres dressing room has a pool and sauna.

Agree...keep it simple and stupid...It's a f***ing dressing room not some fancy night club

I completely agree...

Munich 1860
http://gallery.miliux.com/img/v2/p1051314192-3.jpg

Bayarn Munich
http://gallery.miliux.com/img/v2/p841707069-3.jpg

They even have their own spas for each dressing room. and rehab room for massage.

^^
Of course...you shouldn't mix of those two clubs!:)

http://www.classicbuffalo.com/images/HOFHabs.jpg

The Canadiens. Surprising! I thought there would be more room with such a storied franchise...

http://www.edmontonsun.com/PhotoGalleries/oilers07newdressingroom/2007/09/17/EDMTSoilersdressingroom6.jpg

http://www.edmontonsun.com/PhotoGalleries/oilers07newdressingroom/2007/09/17/EDMTSoilersdressingroom5.jpg

Edomonton's dressing room. Classy. I like the trophies on display right there in the changing room.

^^ you know those arnt the real trophies right?

^^ you know those arnt the real trophies right?

Of course... :)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/SafecoFieldVisitorsClubhouse.jpg/800px-SafecoFieldVisitorsClubhouse.jpg

Seattle Mariners visitor's clubhouse (dressing room). I can't seem to find one of their clubhouse.

http://www.classicbuffalo.com/images/HOFHabs.jpg

The Canadiens. Surprising! I thought there would be more room with such a storied franchise...

This is pretty bad.

Nice dressing rooms.

There are plenty of golf clubs about with similarly well appointed 'locker rooms' as we call it.

The gridiron teams rooms are very impressive, but they have many more players and equipment to cart around.

The best locker room I've been in would have to be the Palm Meadows Golf Club in Queensland. Complete with masseur, large spa and one way glass you can view the course.

Ya, in football, all of the post game interviews are conducted in the locker room.

Interesting difference here. In European sports the locker room is totally off limit for the press.

http://assets.espn.go.com/media/ncf/2004/0422/photo/i_lrview_hi.jpg

I'm obsessing over this locker room thing...

At least in this picture you can see the eraser board coaches use to discuss strategy with their team... Hence the need for space.

Fancy on pitch with PSG playing ? Nice joke :)

^^^^
I knew someone would say that...ok maybe its not fancy right now but im referring to the 1990's:)

AC Milan

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1134/1491347514_55c07375b1_b.jpg

It looks like the Jedi Council!

http://jadedpixel.com/assets/2007/8/9/Jedi_council_1.jpg

Toronto FC locker room:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1434/536127813_f1e9c37522.jpg?v=0

Ali Sami Yen Stadium
IMo quite good for an old stadium that will be demolished. So no renovations etc.
http://www.tff.org/Resources/TFF/Images/StadResimleri/3403/GSalisamiyen7.JPG

Interesting difference here. In European sports the locker room is totally off limit for the press.

That is interesting. In America, its a bad thing if the Media isnt allowed to be in there.

That is interesting. In America, its a bad thing if the Media isnt allowed to be in there.

I've always noticed how hands off the media is with sports in Europe. Look at F1 vs NASCAR. The media is constantly in the face of NASCAR drivers. They'll do interviews while they are in the car and on the grid and even during the race. You could tell Juan Pablo Montoya was like WTF? at first, but I think he's picked it up the fact that this will sell products for him and his sponsors and later in the season seemed to be more relaxed with it. If a driver shook the media off the way they do in F1, here in the states, you'd hear reporters complaining about it for a week on sports radio, then the player would be villified(like Barry Bonds), opening him up for possible ramifications like Hall of Fame voting in the future.

After pro football games, the media storms in. Players have become so used to it, they just go ahead and shower and dress and get out of there as soon as they can. Men and women reporters. I remember a local report where a player walked by naked in the background, totally exposed. It caused a big stir about women being in the locker room. Something you will notice though is that teams more and more have their own media now. For example, locally, the Cowboys do their own web media, they hire one of the local radio stations to be their exclusive station and contract with a local affiliate to officially report their content. The Cowboys give these bodies official interviews and the players they want representing them. If you notice, these reporters never go into the locker room, but rather set up outside. The rest of the local and national media are the ones who crowd the locker rooms.

For pretty much respect reasons(some of the younger players are considered, kids) media don't storm locker rooms. Instead they get interviews before and after players hit the locker rooms. Most major colleges simply won't let these people in and control who they let represent the University. This is pretty much Unconstitutional except for the possibility of minors being in the nude in there.

STADION SLASKI changin rooms, are luxuris, they even have a minifootball pitch, with fake grass, gym etc.

I remember i saw photos of it on the internet but i cant find it anymore.

Citi Field
http://www.stadiumpage.com/newmets/Citi_032109_42.jpg

WTF is with this thread? The title is very misleading.... you guys have ruined my high hopes for this......:devil:

Yankees

http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2009-03/45766680.jpg

Wow that Yankee dressing room looks great!, but the Mets at Citi is dissappointing, it's not even a proper shape, more like a kidney shaped pool or something.
You have to lend it to us north american's we sure no how to coddle our professional athletes, nobody does it better.

Wow that Yankee dressing room looks great!, but the Mets at Citi is dissappointing, it's not even a proper shape, more like a kidney shaped pool or something.
You have to lend it to us north american's we sure no how to coddle our professional athletes, nobody does it better.

Thats the visitors room. This is the Mets room.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/12/03/gal_clubhouse.jpg

here is a fun one; University of Iowa's locker room is painted pink, supposed to sort of play a sort of mind game with the opponent

http://static.flickr.com/57/187337672_1b554407bf.jpg

and for those that like sparse locker rooms, here is the Chicago Cubs locker room

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2457590201_98c200c747.jpg

My bad, that is much better, combined with the new nfl stadium New York built you can argue that New York now has the best stadiums in the world.
Do you know if their are any plans to rebuild MSG?
Also I wanted to respond to the person who put up the pic's of the canadiens dressing room. Make sure it isn't the mock up they have in the hall of fame in Toronto, because that's what it looks like.
The canadiens dressing room is much better than that.

Nobody has posted the University of Oregon's locker room yet? Shame on my fellow Americans!
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/24/sports/24oregon650.jpg
J1NyaTVUhFQ

University of Virginia (too many to post full-size, so just thumbs: full-size here (http://www.virginiasports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&&DB_OEM_ID=17800&ATCLID=1180607))

Football
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Men's Basketball
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Women's Basketball
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Baseball
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Field Hockey
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Men's Lacrosse
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Women's Lacross
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Men's Soccer
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Women's Soccer
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Men's Track and Field
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Women's Track and Field
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Volleyball
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Oh, all this sweet luxury in the lockerrooms.. That's just something for pussies!!!
Real men don't need that!!! Tough guys, they play here in these kind of locker rooms:

http://wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2008/05/02/lokac_01.xml;jsessionid=82EDDFBC429DDB199B9CA712DF1AC627.mediathek4
(Just click on the video, it's in german and talks about necesasary little renovations for this current (the final) season of our old stadium the Tivoli, before the new Tivoli is ready, at start of the coming season.)
These locker rooms are 81 years old and had just a few minor renovations so far in all these years.
Lots of really famous soccerstars had to change here in these rooms (even Franz Beckenbauer). In the season 2006/07, all of the first Bundesliga teams, like Bayern Munich, Bremen, Schalke, Dortmund... all the big ones. :)
And several big players changed here in these rooms when they used to play for our club in an earlier time of their carreer. The most popular fairly recent player is Thorsten Frings.)


Pah, who needs leather seats and all that useless stuff, when you can play high class professional soccer in the Bundesliga even against Championleague teams with some good old traditional lockerrooms like these??? :lol:

(And by the way, we beat Bayern München the last 3 times, they visited us here.)

Oh, all this sweet luxury in the lockerrooms.. That's just something for pussies!!!
Real men don't need that!!! Tough guys, they play here in these kind of locker rooms:

http://wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/2008/05/02/lokac_01.xml;jsessionid=82EDDFBC429DDB199B9CA712DF1AC627.mediathek4
(Just click on the video, it's in german and talks about necesasary little renovations for this current (the final) season of our old stadium the Tivoli, before the new Tivoli is ready, at start of the coming season.)
These locker rooms are 81 years old and had just a few minor renovations so far in all these years.
Lots of really famous soccerstars had to change here in these rooms (even Franz Beckenbauer). In the season 2006/07, all of the first Bundesliga teams, like Bayern Munich, Bremen, Schalke, Dortmund... all the big ones. :)
And several big players changed here in these rooms when they used to play for our club in an earlier time of their carreer. The most popular fairly recent player is Thorsten Frings.)


Pah, who needs leather seats and all that useless stuff, when you can play high class professional soccer in the Bundesliga even against Championleague teams with some good old traditional lockerrooms like these??? :lol:

(And by the way, we beat Bayern München the last 3 times, they visited us here.)


My neighbour and ex Hajduk's player Hrvoje Vuković now plays for Aachen! ;)
He lives 3 floors above me when he's in Split :)

My neighbour and ex Hajduk's player Hrvoje Vuković now plays for Aachen! ;)
He lives 3 floors above me when he's in Split :)
How cool! :)
I think he's a really good defensive player.

Yes, he was great perspective when he left Hajduk, many years ago
But I hear he doesn't play very much and he's thinking of retirement and coming back to Split

Yes, he was great perspective when he left Hajduk, many years ago
But I hear he doesn't play very much and he's thinking of retirement and coming back to SplitIt gets a little of topic, but I just have to answer to that with this one post. So if you're a reader that doesn't care about Alemannia Aachen and Vukovic, just skip it:

It somehow doesn't really mean overly much in our current team that he doesn't allways play. We currently have a lot of competition on basically each and every position and there are not that many players who really play all the time. And our defense player Olajengbesi hapens to be one of them, so the second inner defense player next to him basically has three main candidates, one of them Vukovic and then there's even a fourth one, who can and sometimes does also play there. Vukovic will have his "comeback" (even though this term is way to drastic) soon, I'm absolutely sure. Most of the payers in our Team didn't need many chances to get to play often again. And the Trainer is experimenting and changing the Team around a bit because we're not as successfull as expected in the last few matches, so other players had a chance and used it well, which probably is a little difficult for Vukovic of course and likely to be the main reason he didn't play all too much in the last few games. But he'll play more again, really soon, I'm absolutely sure! This kind of tough competition is currently going on with a lot of positions in our team not just where Vukovic plays.

The main goal is that team plays well! I hope Vukovic will use his chance when it comes!

Dallas Cowboys new stadium locker room
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Picture2.png

Dallas Cowboys new stadium locker room
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/Dallasbrink/Picture2.png

Before anyone criticizes the size or luxuriousness of this room, remember that there are a lot of big people and equipment that gets thrown around here.

There also needs to be enough room for everyone to gather around.

football locker rooms are just HUGE

This isn't normal anymore, it doesn't have to be that luxurious...
Look at normal football (soccer for the Americans) dressing rooms, that's enough

This isn't normal anymore, it doesn't have to be that luxurious...
Look at normal football (soccer for the Americans) dressing rooms, that's enough

Says who?

How much about the game do you know?

These rooms are used for meeting spaces, large men, interviews with players...You need a lot of room for a lot of people. Despite what you might think, this is in fact VERY normal.

And you dont have to say "soccer for the Americans", we arent the only ones who call it that. We get it, we call it a different name. You aren't being clever by pointing it out.

STADION SLASKI changin rooms, are luxuris, they even have a minifootball pitch, with fake grass, gym etc.

I remember i saw photos of it on the internet but i cant find it anymore.

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/4/4673/z4673534X.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/9/4673/z4673549X.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/5/4673/z4673535X.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/4673/z4673546X.jpg
http://www.dziennik.pl/files/archive/00001/Stadion__l_ski_ocieka_1456a.jpg

Before anyone criticizes the size or luxuriousness of this room, remember that there are a lot of big people and equipment that gets thrown around here.

There also needs to be enough room for everyone to gather around.

apparently JerryWorld has lockerooms for everything. One for the Cowboys, two visitors, two for college football, two basketball lockerooms, all have access to different training facilities.

apparently JerryWorld has lockerooms for everything. One for the Cowboys, two visitors, two for college football, two basketball lockerooms, all have access to different training facilities.

news to me. Where did you hear this?

Have heard it many times on local sports radio. One particular time when they were talking about all of the events it was mentioned that college and NFL teams had seperate lockerooms there and how there were smaller lockerooms for basketball and probably soccer.

wow. Damn ESPN has told me nothing. They must talk about it when im not listening.

Camp Nou
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