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The Estadio Morelos is a football stadium in the north- west of the city of Morelia in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Primarily, it is used for football matches and is the home ground of the football club Monarcas Morelia. In addition, it serves as a multi-purpose arena. It can accommodate 41,500 visitors.

The official and full name of the stadium is Estadio Generalísimo José María Morelos y Pavon and thus commemorates the eponymous hero of the Mexican War of Independence, who was born here in Morelia the light of day. At the time of his birth city, however, still wore the name of Valladolid, before they got it to honor its current name.

History

As the Estadio Morelos did not exist, played the football team Atlético Morelia, whose name was extended to Club Atlético Monarcas Morelia in 1999, at the Estadio Venustiano Carranza. Because this was not championship ready and Morelia in 1984 elected to be a venue for the World Cup in 1986, entered the planning phase for a new stadium. This was to be built in the southwest of the city. At this point, however, came from unexpected problems caused by the soil conditions of the selected site. Therefore, the plans could not be realized and Morelia lost its status as a World Cup venue to the city of Irapuato Estadio Sergio León Chávez and his.

In the World Cup 86 subsequent seasons, the local football team reached the semi-finals twice in a row to the Mexican soccer championship. They failed against Cruz Azul (2-0 and 1:4 ) and 1987/88 against the eventual champion América ( 2:2 and 3:3 ) on penalties 1986/87. The sporting successes did revive the interest in a new stadium. To this end, formed a led by Luis Álvarez Barreiro entrepreneur group, a foundation established with the support of the then governor of Michoacán, Luis Martínez Villicana to finance the new construction projects.

After completion of the stadium, the Foundation transferred the ownership of them to the government of the state of Michoacán. Was formally opened the Estadio Morelos with an official match between the local football team Monarcas Morelia and Club America from the capital. The first goal came standing in the service of Morelia Chilean Ángel Juan Bustos and Morelia retained at the end of 2-1 the upper hand. Although the stadium is designed for 41,500 spectators, more than 48,000 tickets were awarded for the opening game due to organizational failure and the stadium seemed to be bursting at the seams.

After the Monarcas had qualified for participation in the Copa Libertadores in 2002, now the floodlight system was built to allow the evening games. In this tournament, the home team remained in four matches against teams from South America without defeat ( Velez Sarsfield 0-0 Sporting Cristal 4-0, Nacional Montevideo 4:2, Olmedo Riobamba 3:2 ) and had to get in intra Mexican duel the quarter-finals against give the capital club América with 1:2 beaten.

Other highlights were the three discharged here Final matches in the Mexican soccer championship in the years between 2000 and 2003. In these, the Monarcas met twice Deportivo Toluca ( 3-1 and 1-0) and once on the CF Monterrey ( 0-0). Because there were also games on the opponent's court, the Monarcas were able to record only one title in the winter of 2000. In addition, found in 2002, so far the only international match of a Mexican national held at the Estadio Morelos. It ended with a 0-2 defeat against Bulgaria.

In 2004, the installation of a large screen at the top of the South Stand was followed. There have also been since 2005 a number of measures to protect the viewer, such as the installation of various security cameras.

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• Estadio Morelos. Arquitectura y construcción. arqhys.com, accessed on 31 October 2010 ( Spanish).

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• Football stadium in North America