Estadio Diego Armando Maradona
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| Estadio Diego Armando Maradona (March 2011) | |
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 Buenos Aires , Argentina
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 36 '21.7 " S , 58 ° 28' 21.3" W |
| owner | Argentinos Juniors |
| opening | December 26, 2003 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 24,800 seats |
| playing area | 100 × 66 m |
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The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona is a football stadium in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires in the La Paternal district . It has space for 24,800 spectators and is the home ground of the Argentinos Juniors football club .
history
The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona in Buenos Aires , the capital and largest city of the country, located in the La Paternal district in the center of the metropolis, was built from 1993 to 2003 and opened on December 26, 2003. The construction time of ten years can be explained by the economically difficult situation of the later user association Argentinos Juniors , which owns the stadium. During the construction, the club played in the Estadio Arquitecto Ricardo Etcheverry , the stadium of Ferro Carril Oeste in the immediate vicinity. Since 2003, the Argentinos Juniors have played their home games at the Estadio Diego Armando Maradona. The Argentinos Juniors are one of the most traditional football clubs in Argentina and have so far won the Argentine championship three times. Furthermore, he won the Copa Libertadores in 1984 and the Copa Interamericana a year later . Currently (2018/19) the club plays in the Superliga Argentina , the top division in Argentine football.
The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona offers 24,800 seats. It is named after Diego Maradona . Maradona comes from the youth of the Argentinos Juniors and played in the first team from 1976 to 1981 before he had a successful career in Europe and celebrated great successes with SSC Napoli and briefly at FC Barcelona .