Brazil's World Cup dress rehearsal, the Confederations Cup, is full of startling new experiences: unfamiliar new stadiums, different teams, and even the Brazilian population throwing off their customary passivity in a wave of protests.
Asked if there were any differences from the old place, he said the wind swirled around the stadium in unfamiliar patterns.
Outside of the fact that most of the stadium seems unfamiliar with the rules of American football and the gentleman that stormed onto the field and did a jig in Notre Dame's end zone, the whole event has gone off without a hitch – well, it's not going great for Navy.
For all of its appeal the national stadium has felt unfamiliar to the players and, in short, simply not like home.
England, on the unfamiliar synthetic surface of the Luzhniki stadium, led Russia 1-0 withree-quartersers of the game gone but two goals in four minutes from Roman Pavlyuchenko sent McClaren into a tailspin from which he would not recover.
"Andre visited a local shop on the way to Saturday's game against Sheffield Wednesday and, being new and unfamiliar to the area, he programmed the stadium's postcode into his satnav.
The organizers will have their own challenges navigating an unfamiliar building, particularly one as massive as Cowboys Stadium.
But no one seemed to have told the Olympic Stadium, which remained contorted with an unfamiliar long-distance intensity of expectation.
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