Estadio Nueva España

Deportivo Español

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The Estadio Nueva España is a football stadium in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires. It can accommodate 18,000 spectators and serves the Deportivo Español as homestead.

History

The Estadio Nueva España in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, was built in 1980 and completed on 12 February of the same year. For the first game in the new stadium Deportivo Español and the Spanish club Deportivo La Coruna met for a friendly match, which was won by the hosts 1-0 with a goal by Walter Corvo. Since that day, Deportivo Español uses the stadium as the venue for home games. His weddings, the club played several years in La Liga and reached three times the third place in the standings. After downs in the second and third major league and the resolution due to severe financial problems, the club was founded in 2003 and currently plays in the new third-tier Primera B Metropolitano, where, however, resides in the lower regions of the table.

The Estadio Nueva España today can accommodate 18,000 spectators. The current capacity has been reached within the framework of renovation work in 1996. After the bankruptcy of Deportivo Español, it was empty for a time, and was founded in 2007 in a very poor condition, with bushes in the middle and grazing animals on the edge, closed and demolished soon after. At the site of the old stadium Deportivo Español built a new stadium, which is aligned very modern and is based on European models, so as an arena built. The stadium is decorated in the colors of Spain and also the national colors of Argentina can be found again.