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Evening Standard
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Ben Hayward

Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu unrecognisable as new images emerge of stadium renovations

Real Madrid have used the LaLiga shutdown brought on by the coronavirus crisis to crack on with renovation of their Santiago Bernabeu home.

The 13-time European champions opened the facility for use as a centre for medical supplies in March and, as new images reveal, work on the stadium has progressed rapidly in recent weeks.

Originally due to be finished in the summer of 2022, the Nuevo Bernabeu is set to feature a retractable roof and a range of new leisure spaces in a futuristic design and the project could now be completed ahead of schedule.

A tweet from the 'nuevobernabeu' account shows latest images from the inside the famous stadium, with a large number of seats stripped and a mountain of earth and gravel on the pitch.

LaLiga is set to resume next month, but games will be played behind closed doors for the remainder of the 2019-20 season due to concerns over Covid-19 and Madrid have been granted permission to play their remaining home matches at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano.

The 6,000-seater stadium is the home of Real's youth team, Castilla, and is based at the club's training ground in Valdebebas, on the outskirts of the capital.

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