Chávez regretted that a football stadium bears his name in Libya
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that a football stadium in Libya has been christened with his name, arguing that "not worth it."

"As for myself, and I refuse to call him to put my name to anything," Chavez said at a public ceremony in the town of Ciudad Piar (Bolivar state, southeast).

"For there to tell me that Libya (Libyan leader, Muammar) Kadhafi gave my name to a stadium in Benghazi. Kadhafi is Kadhafi, but not worth it" this gesture, the president added.

Chavez, who maintains good relations with Kadhafi, said following the example of the independence leader Simón Bolívar, who recalled, rejected at the time that Bolivia is named after him.

The stadium was inaugurated on Friday in Benghazi in eastern Libya, and was baptized with the name of the Venezuelan president as "recognition for his revolutionary program (for a Socialist) and its future role in South American," according to the official libya , Jana.

With a capacity for 11,000 spectators, the Colosseum will be part of the venues that will host matches in the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in 2014, Mohamed said at the opening, the son of Kadhafi.