Making Reservations for Soccer's Final Stop
Some soccer fans follow a team their entire life. Now they'll be able to do it in the afterlife as well. A German soccer club plans to open a cemetery just a few feet from its stadium's main entrance. It'll be in the shape of a small stadium and open to 500 diehard fans willing to pay $10,000 a grave. Some churches in the area object. But the Hamburg Football Club is already getting reservations
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Some soccer fans follow a team their entire life. Now they'll be able to do it in the afterlife as well. A German soccer club plans to open a cemetery just a few feet from its stadium's main entrance. It'll be in the shape of a small stadium and open to 500 diehard fans willing to pay $10,000 a grave. Some churches in the area object. But the Hamburg Football Club is already getting reservations.
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