Money for the construction of a national stadium will have to be found from within the State Budget, since foreign partners won’t offer that much, stated Prime Minister Vlad Filat. The Prime Minister was reminded by the host of a talk show on Moldova 1 that Moldova has been lacking a national stadium to represent its image for several years now. After a display of the ruins, which once used to be the national stadium, Vlad Filat pointed out that, besides ruined stadiums, Moldova had ruined international relations and foreign policies, but now that new relations were built upon those ruins beautiful achievements in sports have also become possible. “We had several discussion on this topic. At the meeting with President Nicolae Timofti and with the presidents of sports federations, we decided upon the building of a multifunctional stadium. Currently we are almost done with picking a place for this field. We cannot expect foreign investments; we will have to find money from our Budget; it may even be built in stages”, said Vlad Filat. The national stadium from Tighina Street was built in 1952, and could be dubbed the reflector of Moldova’s sports history. In over half a century since inauguration, this compound has witnessed numerous national and international records, victories of Moldovan and foreign athletes. Its visitor peak was registered on 14 December 1994, when 24,000 people came to see Moldova vs Germany in a European Championship match. The stadium was demolished in 2007, and is now a field of weeds. Since then, authorities have named several places where the new stadium was supposed to be built, including near the Circus, but that field always gets flooded during rainfall and become swampy. It was also reported that the new stadium might be built near the Airport, but no one has confirmed it officially yet.