Parque Felipe Martínez Sandoval
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 Guadalajara , Jalisco
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| opening | July 20, 1930 |
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Oro de Jalisco - CD Colón |
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Parque Felipe Martínez Sandoval was a football stadium in Guadalajara , capital of the state of Jalisco and the second largest city of Mexico . It was located in the Oblatos district in eastern Guadalajara.
The names of the stadium
The sports park, initially (and later) known as Parque Oro (after its owner, Club Deportivo Oro ) or Parque Oblatos (after its location), was later given its official name to honor Felipe Martínez Sandoval. The former soccer player in the ranks of the CD Oro was not only part of its “team from the very beginning”, but was also a key designer of the club and a promoter of local soccer for a long time.
history
prehistory
Because the city of Guadalajara, which is flourishing in football and whose numerous teams in the Liga Amateur de Jalisco competed with each other, did not have a suitable football stage at the end of the 1920s, the CD Oro built a competition venue for 15,000 visitors. This was a multiple of what the existing sports fields could accommodate.
The opening
The inauguration of the Parque Oro took place on July 20, 1930 with the encounters between the CD Oro and the CD Colón (2: 2) and the CD Guadalajara and the CD Imperio (5: 3). At that time, the first soccer World Cup in history was being held in distant Uruguay and the day before the Mexican national team - which at the time consisted only of players from the capital league - played their third and last game at this World Cup.
Football stage over three decades
For the next three decades, Parque Oro was the football temple of Guadalajara. He was only replaced in this capacity 30 years later by the opening of the Estadio Jalisco on January 31, 1960.
The stadium mainly had uncovered stands where the spectators were exposed to direct sunlight. Only two small areas were covered.
The Parque Oro was the main venue for the last 13 seasons of the Liga Amateur de Jalisco (1930/31 to 1942/43), in which the CD Nacional , which was not taken into account when the professional league was introduced in 1943, with five titles, all of which were won in the 1930s, on was most successful.
In the 1950s, Atlas celebrated its only championship title of the Primera División (1950/51) with this stadium as its home ground and matured the most successful team in the history of CD Guadalajara, which in the early 1960s became Campeonísimo , the series champions of Mexico, developed. In Parque Oro, Chivas celebrated his first championship title in professional football (1956/57) and, with his successes in the seasons 1958/59 and 1959/60, laid the foundation for a series of victories with four championship titles, which was unique in the Mexican Primera División Episode. Interestingly, the stadium owner CD Oro was able to celebrate his only championship title in club history only in 1962/63 with the Estadio Jalisco as home ground.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano , Tomo II, B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, 1961, pp. 435f
swell
- Corazón Chiva: Cien años. Editorial Planeta Mexicana, Mexico City, April 2006, pp. 35f / ISBN 970-37-0385-2