For years it was probably the world's worst football stadium -- a decaying structure with collapsing stands, its pitch replaced by shrubs and weeds while its walls were riddled with bullet holes.
The Islamic militant Al-Shabaab group, which considers football to be evil, once took over the stadium and, between 2008 and 2011, used it as their base.
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