Estadio Julio Humberto Grondona
Arsenal de Sarandi
- Games of Arsenal de Sarandi
The Estadio Julio H. Grondona is a multifunctional stadium in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It can accommodate 18,300 spectators and serves the football club Arsenal de Sarandi as homestead.
History
Julio Humberto Grondona The Estadio was built in 1964 and opened on 22 August of the same year. It is located in Avellaneda Partido, an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. In the Estadio Julio H. Grondona Avellaneda is the third largest stadium Estadio Presidente Perón behind the Racing Club and the Estadio Libertadores de América CA Independiente, both of which hold more than fifty thousand spectators. Just behind the Estadio Julio H. Grondona is still the Estadio Nueva España, where Deportivo Español plays and eighteen thousand people fit. The Estadio Julio H. Grondona is named after Julio Grondona ( born 1931 ), an Argentine football official. Grondona founded in 1957 together with his brother, the Arsenal de Sarandi and stood in front of this until 1976. Since 1988 Grondona member of the FIFA Executive Committee and also currently since 1979 president of the Argentine Football Association.
The Estadio Julio H. Grondona is used by the football club Arsenal de Sarandi as the venue for home games. The association has so far never won the Argentine championship. The greatest success in the club's history is winning the Copa Sudamericana 2007, when in the final of Club America from Mexico with 2:3 in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City 's Estadio Presidente Perón and 2-1 in Avellaneda, the Estadio Julio H. Grondona was was defeated, with its 18,000 seats too small for such a final, by the away goals rule. Latest Arsenal de Sarandi plays in Argentina's highest football league, La Liga.