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The Estadio Julio César Villagra is a multi-purpose stadium in the Argentine city of Córdoba. It can accommodate 28,000 spectators and serves the football club CA Belgrano as homestead.

History

The Estadio Julio César Villagra in Cordoba, the second largest city of Argentina, and in the center of the country of 1.3 million people situated behind Buenos Aires, was built between 1927-1929 and opened on March 17, 1929. For the first game in the new stadium, the future users club, the football club CA Belgrano, and Estudiantes de La Plata met for a friendly match. Since then Belgrano de Córdoba uses the sports facility as a venue for home games. However, the club was able to still achieve any great success and is widely regarded as the second largest club in Cordoba to CA Talleres. Currently Belgrano plays but a league higher than Talleres, namely in the Primera División. In this they had risen in the past second-division season after relegation matches against the Argentine giants River Plate CA. In the first leg Relegation Belgrano River had defeated 2-0 at the Estadio Julio César Villagra, the return match ended in a 1-1 draw with monumental.

Today offers the Estadio Julio César Villagra, which is also known as the Estadio Gigante de Alberdi, space for 28,000 spectators. This capacity has been reached within the framework of renovations in 1997, took place as the modernization and enlargement of the stadium. Previously, only 10,000 people worshiped. Of the 28,000 available today ranks are 24,000 seats, the remaining four standing passengers. It is named after Julio César Villagra, a player of CA Belgrano, who was in the eighties, part of the successful team of Belgrano in the early eighties.