Corona Stadium (2009)
- Santos Laguna
- U-17 Football World Cup 2011
- Games of Santos Laguna
- Concerts
The new Estadio Corona - Corona German Stadium - is a football stadium in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. It acts since November 2009 as the home stadium of the football club Santos Laguna and triggers in this capacity, the former Estadio Corona from.
The stadium is the most important building of a new housing estate Territorio Santos Modelo with the name. With this choice of words, the close cooperation between the football club Santos Laguna and the mighty brewer Grupo Modelo will be highlighted. Both the new and the old stadium are named after the best-selling beer brand in this group: Corona.
Was designed the sports venue of the HKS Inc., an international architecture firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA. Her work includes, for example, the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
The stadium opening
In the presence of known, former player of the club as Dolmo Flores, Ramón Ramírez, Antonio Apud, Jose Luis Ortega, Hector Adomaitis and last but not least Jared Borgetti was the Nuevo Estadio Corona officially opened on 11 November 2009. At the beginning of the ceremony, the singer Ricky Martin occurred. Subsequently, the Mexican President Felipe Calderon cut the symbolic opening band before 21:00 clock the official opening match kicked off between the host and his Brazilian namesake Santos FC. It ended with a 2-1 victory of the home team. First goal scorer in the new stadium was Matías Vuoso who had brought the hosts already in the sixth minute lead. After Jean Carlos da Silva was succeeded in the 65th minute of the compensation for the Brazilian, Carlos Ochoa scored the winning goal just before the end of the game.
The first competitive match
The first competitive match at the new Estadio Corona took place on November 15, 2009 instead of the last game in the league game round of the Apertura 2009, between Santos Laguna and Club América. After Salvador Cabañas had given the visitors from the capital after 24 minutes on the clock, Carlos Ochoa was achieved in the second minute of stoppage time of compensation.
The new stadium of Torreón is one of the venues of the U-17 World Cup 2011 in Mexico.