{"id":23463,"date":"2015-06-12T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=23463"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:01:19","slug":"world-sport-group-comes-to-karyavattom-international-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/world-sport-group-comes-to-karyavattom-international-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World Sport Group&#8217; comes to Karyavattom International stadium! 160 days of sports action annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to ensure round-the-year international sporting action in Trivandrum, Kariavattom Sports Facilities Limited (KSFL), operator of the Greenfield International Stadium has joined hands with sports marketing and event management giant, the World Sport Group (WSG).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WSG will ensure 37 days of international and national events at the stadium every year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The role of WSG will be to ensure bringing world-class sport events to the stadium and also operating the retail space available at the venue. As per the agreement, WSG will ensure 37 days of international and national events at the stadium every year. Apart from this, the stadium will be venue for state and local-level sports events, bringing 160 days of sports action annually.<\/p>\n<h4>Also Read| <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/indias-1st-sports-hub-to-come-up-at-kariyavattom-greenfield-international-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">India\u2019s First Sports Hub<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Earlier KSFL announced its plan to turn the Greenfield Stadium at Karyavattom into a world-class \u2018Sports Hub\u2019. With sports hub multiple events can be hosted under one umbrella. World Sport Group will work on building an image for the Sports Hub across the world by promoting our Greenfield International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>WSG is also a partner in the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore, which is considered the first and largest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) sports infrastructure project in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium to get new name<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IL &amp;FS will auction the name of the stadium \u2013 now called as \u2018Greenfield International Stadium, Kariyavattom\u2019. Qatar Airways, Oman Air and Emirates airlines companies are in the fray. Once the name is auctioned the stadium will be known in the name of the company that wins the right. It\u2019s a common practise to auction the name of the stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the work of the facilities for the basketball, badminton, squash, table tennis and billiards will be completed by October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to ensure round-the-year international sporting action in Trivandrum, Kariavattom Sports Facilities Limited (KSFL), operator of the Greenfield International Stadium has joined hands with sports marketing and event management giant, the World Sport Group (WSG). WSG will ensure 37 days of international and national events at the stadium every year. The role of WSG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}