Estadio Carlos Dittborn
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| Estadio Carlos Dittborn | |
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 Arica , Región de Arica y Parinacota
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 29 '15 " S , 70 ° 17' 57.4" W |
| opening | 1962 |
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The Estadio Carlos Dittborn ( German : Carlos Dittborn Stadium ) is a multifunctional stadium in Arica in northern Chile with a capacity of 27,500 spectators. It was put into operation on April 15, 1962. The stadium is primarily used for soccer games; the local third division clubs CD San Marcos de Arica and Universidad de Tarapacá play their games in it.
history
The stadium was designed for the 1962 World Cup by the architect Karl Brunner, who also built the national stadium in Santiago de Chile . Arica, in the far north of the country, was chosen as the venue because the organizers were certain that neighboring Peru would qualify for the World Cup . But the Peruvian team had to let the Colombians move into the finals.
Because of the desert climate in Arica and the saltpetre content of the soil, it was difficult to grow a proper lawn in the stadium. The builders had already tried six sowings before the idea of replacing the soil and then diverting the river Lauco, which had its bed near the city, to the stadium temporarily. As a result, the World Cup games could actually take place from May 30, 1962.
The stadium was named after the football official Carlos Dittborn Pinto , who was President of CONMEBOL from 1955 to 1957 and later head of the Organizing Committee of the 1962 World Cup. He died just days before the stadium went into operation.
Football World Cup 1962
During the 1962 World Cup, the Group A games with the Soviet Union , Yugoslavia , Uruguay and Colombia took place in the Estadio Carlos Dittborn . The number of spectators was limited: For the first game between the two South American teams, only 7,908 paying spectators appeared in the stadium, which at that time had a capacity of 24,000. The other games could not attract more than 10,000 spectators; only the game between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, led by the German referee Albert Dusch , was an exception with 15,000 visitors.
Not even for the quarter-finals between the Chilean hosts and the Soviet Union on June 10, 1962, the stadium was sold out, only two-thirds filled with officially 17,268 visitors. Chile qualified for the semi-finals with a 2-1 win in this game .
One of the six top scorers of the 1962 World Cup with four goals each was Valentin Ivanov , who scored all four goals at this stadium.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Noelle: Das kleine Lexikon der Fußballrekorde , p. 111, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77828-9