Parque Asturias

Parque Asturias was a football stadium in Mexico City and in the introduction of professional football in 1943 the Football Temples of the Mexican capital par excellence.

Prehistory

The Football Committee capital League felt in the first half of the 1930s the need to complement the two existing venues - the 1925 opened Parque España de la Verónica and in 1930 opened Parque Necaxa - to build another sports park. The Commissioner Paulino Coto, also president of the Centro Asturiano, took up the idea and implemented it.

History

In the mid- 1930s, maintained by the Centro Asturiano CF Asturias built on the Calzada del Chabacano in Mexico City a wooden stadium, which offered 22,000 visitors. Named after the club 's stadium was inaugurated on March 1, 1936 solemnly with a friendly match between Asturias and the Brazilian club Botafogo. The game was won 4-2 by the hosts and challenged with the following schedule: Alfonso Riestra (Tor ); José Ramón Ballina, Benjamín Alonso, Manuel Baca, Sergio Alonso, Justo Sansebastian, Tomás Fernández, Luis " Charro " Argüelles, Donato Alonso, Efrain Ruiz, José Antonio Hütt.

On September 12, 1937, the Mexican national team played here an international match against the USA, which was won with 7:2. The most successful scorer was active at that time in Asturias Luis Argüelles, get the three hits.

The wood stadium had a life span of only three years; because during a crucial championship game between Asturias and Necaxa on March 29, 1939, inflamed not only the passion of the supporters but also a fire. The chronicle of an overly hard game against the Asturian guests and team a controversial penalty, which favored the home team. Subsequently introduced infuriated Necaxa fans a fire on the wooden stands that spread rapidly and eventually a large part of the stadium burned down.

The reconstruction of the Parque Asturias was less combustible material, reaching a capacity of 30,000 seats.

In the early years of the newly established Mexican professional league is the Parque Asturias was the heart of the capital of football and moreover, a kind of Mexican Wembley football. Up to and including the season 1945/46, the cup final and the Supercup was held here every year. From 1946/47, the finals were held los Deportes in the newly opened Estadio Ciudad de. After the CF Asturias had retired from the professional league at the end of the season 1949/50, and another stadium in Mexico City was opened a few years later with the modern Estadio Olímpico Universitario, the Parque Asturias had finally been served and it was finally demolished.

Swell

  • Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano, Tomo II, B. Costa - Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 346
  • Carlos Calderón Cardoso: Por amor a la camiseta (1933-1950), Editorial Clío, Mexico City, 1998, pp. 40f

References and Notes

  • Football stadium in Mexico
  • Sports venue in Mexico City
  • Built in the 1930s
  • Abgegangenes building in Mexico
  • Football stadium in North America
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