Velódromo de Ciudad ruler
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 27 '0.4 " N , 3 ° 39' 11.5" W |
| opening | July 3, 1910 |
| Renovations | 1923, 1946 |
| demolition | 1972 |
| surface | Natural grass , cement (cycle track) |
| architect | Ricardo Ruiz Ferry (1910) José María Castell (1923) |
| capacity | 8000 seats |
| playing area | 108 m × 63 m |
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The Velódromo de Ciudad Lineal (1966–1972 Estadio Antonio Borrachero ) was a multi-purpose stadium in the Spanish city of Madrid . Originally built as an open cycling track , it later served primarily as a football stadium and was the home of Real Madrid from 1923 to 1924 and that of AD Plus Ultra from 1946 until its demolition in 1972 .
history
Velódromo de Ciudad ruler
The Velódromo de Ciudad Lineal cycling track was part of the ambitious Bandstadt construction project of the well-known Madrid city planner Arturo Soria y Mata and was built in the Ciudad Lineal district , today part of the district of the same name , on what was then the eastern edge of the Spanish capital.
As early as March 23, 1910, the site of the sports facility under construction was the scene of a historic event. The French pilot Julien Mamet made the first flight over the city of Madrid from here in a Blériot XI . King Alfonso XIII was among the spectators . of Spain . Today a monument erected by the Spanish aviation authority AENA commemorates this event.
The official opening of the stadium took place on July 3, 1910 with various sporting events, including bicycle and motorcycle races as well as athletics competitions. The sports facility was connected to the city center by an electric tram and at that time was considered one of the most modern and best in the country. The cycle track was 6.5 meters wide and had the characteristic elevations on the two curves. In addition, the sports facility also had a five-meter-wide running track and a natural grass field in the middle, which could be used for soccer games, among other things.
In 1923 Real Madrid had to leave the Estadio de O'Donnell , the Velódromo de Ciudad Lineal was selected as a replacement. The club reached an agreement with the Soria family, owners of the sports facility, on a conversion for use as a football stadium, the architect in charge was José María Castell , who had previously designed the Metropolitano de Madrid stadium . On April 29, 1923, the stadium was inaugurated with a game between Real Madrid and Real Unión de Irún . The match ended in a 2-0 win for the home side and the goalscorer for both goals was José María Úbeda . Although the new venue had natural grass as a surface for the first time and was connected to the city center by a tram, the number of spectators fell. Many fans did not want to pay the price for public transport and the sports facility was difficult to get to on foot. The club responded by planning a club's own stadium, which was opened on May 17, 1924 as the Estadio de Chamartín .
The Velódromo de Ciudad Lineal was then increasingly used as a cycling track again, but could no longer match the popularity of earlier days. The track was in poor condition and the number of spectators fell, not least because of the rapidly increasing popularity of football. In 1946 the insurance company Plus Ultra acquired the stadium as the home of the company's own soccer team Agrupación Deportiva Plus Ultra , which at the time had just been promoted to the Tercera División , the third division in Spain at the time. Just a year later, the club signed an agreement with Real Madrid and henceforth acted as a branch team of the club that had played in this stadium from 1923 to 1924. For the 1949/50 season, the team rose for the first time in the Segunda División and finished it in third place, which narrowly missed qualification for the promotion round to the first division . Overall, the club brought it to eleven seasons in the second division.
Estadio Antonio Borrachero
In 1966, the club's management decided, in honor of long-time president Antonio Borrachero , to rename the stadium to Estadio Antonio Borrachero . The soccer team was relegated to the Tercera División in the 1962/63 season and was on a sporting slide. The 1970/71 and 1971/72 seasons could only be finished with eleventh and tenth place in the table, and the insurance company of the same name decided in 1972 to close the football department. The license was transferred to Castilla CF. Real Madrid's new branch played the games in the club's own training center on Paseo de la Castellana . The now vacant Estadio Antonio Borrachero was demolished.
Web links
- Stadium to estadiosdeespana.blogspot.co.at (English)
- Stadium history on realmadrid.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ El otro centenario de Madrid. In: madridiario.es. April 8, 2010, accessed March 13, 2014 (Spanish).
- ^ Aeródromo de la Ciudad Lineal - El primero de Madrid. In: historias-matritenses.blogspot.co.at. September 26, 2008, Retrieved March 13, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b Velódromo de la Ciudad Lineal. In: historias-matritenses.blogspot.co.at. August 31, 2008, accessed March 13, 2014 (Spanish).
- ^ Estadio Borrachero se llama ya el de la Ciudad Lineal. In: ABC . April 1, 1966, Retrieved March 13, 2014 (Spanish).