Estadio Socum

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Estadio de la Sociedad Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma
The opposite stand (Sol) in the stadium in February 2009
The opposite stand (Sol) in the stadium in February 2009
Data
place MexicoMexico Orizaba , Veracruz
Coordinates 18 ° 51 '25.6 "  N , 97 ° 6' 9.8"  W Coordinates: 18 ° 51 '25.6 "  N , 97 ° 6' 9.8"  W.
opening 1959
surface Natural grass
capacity 7,500 seats
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The main grandstand (Sombra) of the Estadio Socum in a residential area north of the city center

The Estadio de la Sociedad Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma , or Estadio Socum for short (an abbreviation of the last three words: So-Cu-M), is a football stadium in the Mexican city ​​of Orizaba in the state of Veracruz , which has a capacity of around 7,500. It is the current home ground of the Albinegros de Orizaba football club .

History of the sports facilities in Orizaba

The first sports facilities

The city's first soccer field was located on the site of the "Santa Gertrudis de Yute" factory, which was founded in 1892 in the east of Orizaba and where the founding members of the Orizaba AC soccer department, established in 1901, worked. After games at Orizaba AC came to an early standstill, a new football team was founded in 1916 in the successor club U-29, named after a submarine of the German Navy in World War I , which initially started on the cancha de Santa Gertrudis de Yute played on which the famous Orizaba AC had previously played its games. But soon ADO , as U-29 had called itself since June 27, 1916, began planning a new sports park. The new soccer field was built on the site of the “Cocolapan” textile factory, which was founded in 1836, on Calle Sur 6 in the south of Orizaba. The lawn of the cancha de Cocolapan was considered excellent at the time.

Campo Moctezuma

Campo Moctezuma was opened in 1932 on the premises of the Orizaba-based Moctezuma brewery to give a home ground to the UD Moctezuma football team, which was founded by the brewery . Its entrance was at the southern end of calle Sur 14, where the walled-up gate on the wall of the brewery running along Avenida Poniente 9 reminds of the past. The main entrance of today's Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery (the official name of the brewery since the merger with the Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc in Monterrey in 1988) is located in the neighboring calle Sur 10. The Campo Moctezuma was closed in 1954 after his team from the second division withdrawn had been.

Estadio Socum

Today's Estadio Socum was opened in 1959 to give Orizaba FC, which played in the Mexican second division football between 1959 and 1967 , a home ground after the Estadio Moctezuma was demolished and converted into storage and loading facilities for the brewery.

The Estadio Socum is located about two kilometers northeast of the old Estadio Moctezuma in calle Norte 10 and was probably called Unidad Deportiva Moctezuma until 1988 , as can still be seen on the Google Maps map. But there are also sources that ascribe the former name of Estadio Moctezuma to this stadium and refer to the previous stadium on the premises of the brewery as Campo Moctezuma .

Planned new stadium

In January 2010, the construction of a new football stadium in Orizaba, which should hold around 30,000 spectators, was approved. But nothing has happened so far. The stadium, which was planned for Orizaba's co-host role for the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz , was to be located on the site of the former Cocolapan factory, which was the home ground of the ADO football team in the 1920s. In February 2011 the daily newspaper El Sol de Orizaba reported : “The football stadium is the most important project in this city; not only as a planned venue for the Central American and Caribbean Games, which will take place in 2014, but also for economic development in the center of the state of Veracruz . ”However, the construction did not come about.

The planning of a new football stadium was never off the table and was revived in 2017 at the latest with initially vague plans. In 2018, the plans for a new stadium, which will be built in Barrio Rincón Grande in the south-east of the city and should be completed in the course of 2019, became more concrete . According to current plans, the stadium should hold around 20,000 visitors and will cost around 200 million Mexican pesos . The specific construction plans should be officially presented in October 2018.

See also

Web links

Commons : Estadio Socum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La transformación de los pueblos fabriles del Valle de Orizaba (Spanish; accessed January 7, 2014)
  2. ↑ The beginnings of Orizaba AC on the official website of the Albinegros de Orizaba ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; accessed August 27, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albinegros.mx
  3. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1960, p. 187
  4. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1960, p. 188
  5. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1960, p. 189
  6. ↑ Monografias.com: Orizaba Veracruz (Spanish; accessed January 7, 2014)
  7. ↑ El Sol de Orizaba: Arrecia disputa por ex textil Cocolapan (Spanish; article from July 30, 2013)
  8. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1960, p. 37
  9. ↑ a b c List of main stadiums for soccer in Mexico
  10. ↑ The author of these lines has an older, undated picture postcard showing a smaller football stadium on the grounds of the Cerveceria Moctezuma. A publication of this picture is unfortunately not possible here due to the violation of the copyright law. This is where the brewery's warehouses are today.
  11. ↑ Photos from Orizaba FC with game scenes in the Estadio Moctezuma (Spanish; accessed August 25, 2011)
  12. ^ Address of the Cerveceria Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma in Orizaba
  13. ↑ History of the football stadiums in Orizaba ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ Google Maps
  15. ↑ Nuevos estadios en México (Spanish; article from October 9, 2011)
  16. ↑ El Mundo de Córdoba: Sí habrá estadio para Orizaba ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; article of May 14, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elmundodecordoba.com
  17. ↑ Se defiende Kuri de mal uso de recursos para el estadio de futbol (Spanish; article from March 7, 2013)
  18. ↑ Orizaba en Red: Javier Duarte apoyará "con todo" la construcción del estadio en Orizaba: Fidel Kuri. (Spanish; article of March 5, 2011)
  19. ↑ El Sol de Orizaba: Detonará la economía estadio de futbol: Kuri (Spanish; article from February 22, 2011)
  20. ^ Emilio Gonzáles Gómez (Noreste): Proyectan construir estadio de futbol en Valle de Orizaba (Spanish; article from February 23, 2017)
  21. ↑ Jorge Galindo (Imagen del Golfo): Estadio de futbol en Orizaba será una realidad, asegura alcalde (Spanish; article from May 16, 2018)
  22. ↑ César Carrillo (El Mundo de Orizaba): Va estadio a Rincón Grande (Spanish; article from July 3, 2018)