Estadio Diego Armando Maradona

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Estadio Diego Armando Maradona
El Tifón de Boyacá (Boyacá street's typhoon)
Argentinos Juniors Stadium.jpg
Full nameEstadio Autocrédito Diego Armando Maradona
Former namesEstadio de la Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors
LocationVilla General Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
OwnerArgentinos Juniors
Capacity26,000[1]
Field size100x67m
Surfacegrass
Construction
Built1995-2003
Opened26 December 2003
Construction cost8,000,000 dollars
ArchitectHéctor Caracciolo
Tenants
Argentinos Juniors (2003-present)

Estadio Diego Armando Maradona is a football stadium in Villa General Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the home venue of Argentinos Juniors, and has a capacity of 26,000.[2]

It was given its name in 2004 in honour of the former Argentinos player Diego Maradona who made his professional debut here in 1976,[3] following the refurbishment of the ground, and to celebrate the club's centenary year.[4]

History[]

Before the construction of this stadium, there was another one on the same place, wooden made, which first opened in 1940. Since it was small and unsafe, it was left apart in the early 1980s, and the football team moved its basis to the nearer Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverri stadium, in the neighbourhood of Caballito. The idea was to build a modern and bigger stadium with the 5,800,000 dollars that the club received from the transfer of Diego Armando Maradona to the FC Barcelona but finally that money was invested in constructing other venues at the multisport complex Las Malvinas, owned by the same club, and in bringing some first level footballers in order to succeed at the national championship. The project of the new stadium had to wait until the next decade.[5]

In 1995, the old stadium was demolished, but at the same time a deep economic crisis hit the club and continued for a long time, delaying the works for eight years. Finally, in 2003, the new stadium was finished, and opened on December 26. Six months later, the team returned to the Argentinean First Division, where it is now based.[6] The opening ceremony included two football games between the 1984 team, that won the first national championship for the club versus the team that won the second division tournament in 1997, and another one between the Argentinean U-20 national team and a mix of some of the best players born in the club's youth divisions such as Juan Pablo Sorín, Esteban Cambiasso, Diego Placente, Carlos Mac Allister, Claudio Borghi, Fabricio Coloccini, Leonel Gancedo and Sergio Batista together with some other remarkable footballers that played in Argentinos, such as Ubaldo Fillol.[7] Lionel Messi made his debut with the Argentina U20 national team in this stadium and scored his first international goal in a friendly match against Paraguay on 29 June 2004.

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2017-11-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Entradas Argentinos Juniors". TicketBureau.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Glorias del Semillero: Diego Armando Maradona". Argentinosjuniors.com.ar (in Spanish). Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Maradona agradeció que el estadio de Argentinos Juniors lleve su nombre". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones. 9 August 2004. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Historia: 1980-1999". Argentinosjuniors.com.ar (in Spanish). Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Historia: 2000-Actualidad". Argentinosjuniors.com.ar (in Spanish). Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  7. ^ "Fiesta inaugural del Estadio de Argentinos Juniors". Argentinos-juniors.com (in Spanish). Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors. Retrieved 19 February 2014.

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Coordinates: 34°36′21.7″S 58°28′21.3″W / 34.606028°S 58.472583°W / -34.606028; -58.472583

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