Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó

CA Huracán

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The Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco is a stadium in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires in the Parque Patricios neighborhood. It can accommodate 48 314 spectators and is the club CA Huracán as homestead.

History

The Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina and with nearly three million inhabitants also the largest city in the country, was built in 1941-1949 and opened on 11 September 1949. For the first official match in the new stadium, the future users club, the football club CA Huracán, and the Uruguayan series champion Penarol Montevideo met for a friendly match, which was won by Huracán 4-1. Even before this game, there was an unofficial opening of the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco, as Huracán in this stadium with 4-3 win against Boca Juniors. Since then, CA Huracán uses the stadium as the venue for home games in football. The club was Argentine champion to date again. In 1973 they won under the leadership of César Luis Menotti, the only championship in club history. Currently playing CA Huracán in the second Argentine league, the Primera B Nacional, after last season ( Clausura 2011) the last place was occupied in La Liga and one had to descend.

The Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco is named after Tomás Adolfo Duco (1901-1964), an Argentine military and former president of CA Huracán. As a tribute to his merits decided the city of Buenos Aires in 1939 to build a stadium for his club with the name of Duco. Nowadays the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco can accommodate 48 314 spectators. However, the stadium is rarely filled, as it is only one of many large and Huracán in Buenos Aires, which is currently not one of the best teams in Argentine football, also can not mobilize so many followers.

In 2007, the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco was appointed by the Argentine government to a historic building, which was established by special architecture and the fact that you can watch the game from all the places of good in this stadium. Furthermore, the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco is known for good acoustics. Here have been many live albums were recorded, for example, one of the Argentine hard rock band La Renga. 2010 used the director Juan José Campanella the stadium as Handlungsort in his film in her eyes. The strip was honored at the Academy Awards in 2010 as Best Foreign Language Film.