Parque Asturias
| Parque Asturias | |
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| Earlier names | |
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Parque del Ingenio |
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| Data | |
| place |
 Mexico city
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| start of building | Mid 1930s |
| opening | March 1, 1936 |
| First game | CF Asturias - Botafogo |
| demolition | 1966 |
| capacity | 22,000 |
| Societies) | |
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CF Asturias |
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Parque Asturias was a football stadium in Mexico City and when professional football was introduced in 1943 it was the football temple of the Mexican capital.
prehistory
In the first half of the 1930s, the football commission of the capital league felt the need to build another sports park in addition to the two existing venues - the Parque España de la Verónica , which opened in 1925 and the Parque Necaxa , which opened in 1930 . Commissioner Paulino Coto, who is also President of the Centro Asturiano , took up the idea and implemented it.
history
In the mid-1930s, CF Asturias, maintained by Centro Asturiano, built a wooden stadium on Calzada del Chabacano in Mexico City that could seat 22,000 people. The stadium named after the club was inaugurated on March 1, 1936 with a friendly match between Asturias and the Brazilian club Botafogo . The game was won by the hosts 4-2 and played with the following line-up: Alfonso Riestra (goal); José Ramón Ballina , Benjamín Alonso, Manuel Baca, Sergio Alonso, Justo Sansebastián , Tomás Fernández, Luis “Charro” Argüelles , Donato Alonso , Efraín Ruiz , José Antonio Hütt .
On September 12, 1937, the Mexican national team played an international game against the USA here, which was won 7-2. The most successful goalscorer in this game was Luis Argüelles, who was working for Asturias at the time and scored three goals.
The wooden stadium had a lifespan of only three years; because during a decisive championship game between Asturias and Necaxa on March 29, 1939, not only the passion of the fans was ignited, but also a fire. The Chronicle reports an excessively tough game between the Asturians and the visiting team and a controversial penalty that favored the home side. Angry Necaxa fans then started a fire on the wooden grandstand, which quickly spread and eventually burned down much of the stadium.
The reconstruction of Parque Asturias was made from less flammable material and reached a capacity of around 30,000 seats.
In the first few years of the newly introduced Mexican professional league , Parque Asturias was the heart of capital city football and also a kind of Wembley of Mexican football . The cup final and the Supercup were held here every year up to and including the 1945/46 season. From 1946/47 the finals were played in the newly opened Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes . After CF Asturias withdrew from the professional league at the end of the 1949/50 season and a few years later with the modern Estadio Olímpico Universitario another stadium was opened in Mexico City, the Parque Asturias was finally obsolete and was finally demolished.
Before that happened, the stadium served as a training facility on VfB Stuttgart 's trip to Mexico in the spring and summer of 1951. During the tour, which was organized at the invitation of the Mexican Football Association , VfB made five guest appearances against Mexican club teams.
swell
- Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano, Tomo II.B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City 1961, p. 346.
- Carlos Calderón Cardoso: Por amor a la camiseta (1933-1950). Editorial Clío, Mexico City 1998, p. 40 f.
References and comments
- ↑ At that time the name Estadio (stadium) was not given in Mexico , but the name Parque (park) was chosen.
- ↑ Donato Alonso made his Asturias debut in this game.
- ^ The Mexican internationals (1923–1939) at RSSSF
- ^ The Mexican season 1943/44 at RSSSF
- ^ The 1944/45 Mexican season on RSSSF
- ↑ The Mexican Supercup Finals at RSSSF
- ^ Adriano Gómez-Bantel (ed.): The VfB in Mexico. A trip in the summer of 1951 . Verlag Die Werkstatt , Göttingen, pp. 16f, 43ff / ISBN 978-3-7307-0210-9
- ^ Mexican Tour of VfB Stuttgart 1951 at RSSSF