Estadio Socum
The Estadio Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma de la Sociedad, short Estadio Socum (an abbreviation of the last three words: So- Cu -M), is a football stadium in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico, which has about 7,500 visitors. It is the current home ground of Albinegros de Orizaba.
History of sports venues in Orizaba
The first sporting venues
The first football square of the city was located on the east in Orizaba in the terrain, which was founded in 1892 factory " Santa Gertrudis de Yute ", in which the founder members who in 1901 launched football section of Orizaba AC worked. After the game operation at Orizaba AC had already come to a halt early in 1916 launched a new football team into life in which, after a submarine of the German Navy named in World War successor club U -29, the first on the cancha de Santa Gertrudis de Yute played, had fought on the above the glorious AC Orizaba its games. But soon began ADO, such as U -29 was called since June 27, 1916, with the planning of a new sports park. The new football field was built on the site, which was founded in 1836 textile factory " Cocolapan " on Calle Sur 6 in the south of Orizaba. The lawn of the cancha de Cocolapan was at the time as excellent.
Campo / Estadio Moctezuma
Sometime between 1932, when the football team based in Orizaba Moctezuma Brewery was founded, and 1940, when this team for the first time took part in the Games to the Mexican soccer championship, should the Estadio Moctezuma (or Campo Moctezuma? ) Have been built that specializes in the the site of the brewery was located. It was built to give a home ground for their own football team UD Moctezuma. His entrance was at the south end of calle 14 Sur, where the walled gate still recalls the along Avenida 9 Poniente leading wall of the brewery to the past. The main entrance Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma today ( the official name of the brewery since the merger with Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Monterrey in 1988 ) is located in the neighboring calle 10 Sur
Estadio Socum
Today's Estadio Socum was probably built in the 1960s to the Orizaba FC, who played 1959-1968 in the second Mexican soccer league to give a home stadium after the Estadio Moctezuma demolished and converted into storage and Verladeräume the brewery had been.
The Estadio Socum located about two kilometers northeast of the old Estadio Moctezuma calle 10 Norte and contributed to 1988 probably the name Unidad Deportiva Moctezuma, as shown on the map of Google Maps still be seen. There are also sources which ascribe the previous name this stadium Estadio Moctezuma and the previous stadium on the site of the brewery designate as Campo Moctezuma.
New stadium
In January 2010, the construction of a new football stadium in Orizaba, which should hold around 30,000 spectators, approved. But nothing is done yet. Location of the stadium, which was scheduled for a co-host role Orizaba for the Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 in Veracruz, the site of the former factory of the Cocolapan in the 1920s already the football team ADO should be served as a home ground. Yet in February 2011, reported the newspaper El Sol de Orizaba: " The football stadium is the most important project of this city; not only as a scheduled venue for the Central American and Caribbean Games, held in 2014, but also to promote economic development in the center of the state of Vera Cruz. "