Palogrande Stadium ( Spanish: Estadio Palogrande ) is a football stadium located in the city of Manizales . The stadium was built in 1936 , but in 1994 was significantly rebuilt. It hosts home games club “ Onse Caldas ”.
| Palogrande | |
|---|---|
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| original name | Estadio palogrande |
| Former names | Fernando londono londiono |
| Location | Manizales , Colombia |
| Built | 1936 |
| Open | July 30, 1994 |
| Remodeled | 1994 |
| Construction cost | 3 million US dollars |
| Architect | Jorge Gutierrez Duque, Enrique Gomez Gomez |
| Owner | Municipality of Manizales |
| Capacity | 36,000 |
| Home team | Onse Caldas |
| Field dimensions | 110 × 70 m |
| Coating | herbal |
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History
The construction of the stadium began in 1930 and was completed in 1936, to the IV National Games of Colombia. The architect was Jorge Arango Uribe, and the initial capacity of the Manizales Arena was 16 thousand spectators. In 1949, the stadium was renamed in honor of Mayor Manizales Fernando Londiono Londiono, and the stadium was known by that name until 1993, when it began a radical restructuring.
In fact, nothing was left of the old arena, where there were disproportionately large wooden logs between sectors. However, the memory of the old stadium was preserved in the return of the original name - “Palo Grande” can be translated as “a big log”. The restructuring of the arena in the early 1990s was led by the architect Jorge Gutierrez, along with Enrique Gomez [1] . In 1996, a roof was erected over the arena and improved lighting. The end of the reconstruction was marked by a friendly match between Onse Caldas and the Brazilian “ Internacional ”, which ended with a score of 1: 1.
Palogrande has become one of Colombia's largest, most modern and most comfortable stadiums. It twice (in 1987 and 2005) held the championships of South America among youth teams . In 2001, only two America's Cup games were played on Plogrand, but it was a quarterfinal ( Brazil - Honduras - 0: 2) and a semi-final with the participation of the tournament hosts ( Colombia - Honduras - 2: 0). In 2011, Palogrande became one of the stadiums hosting the Youth World Cup. The Colombian team sometimes holds friendly matches on Palogrand.
In 2004, it was on the home arena that “Onse Caldas” achieved his most significant victory in the international arena - in the final of the Libertadores Cup in a penalty shootout, the team managed to defeat the Argentine super club “ Boca Juniors ”, the current winner of the Intercontinental Cup , and become the second Colombian winner in history prestigious club tournament in South America (after Atletico Nacional in 1989 ).
Tournaments
- IV National Games of Colombia 1936
- South American Youth Championship 1987 - 3 matches
- America's Cup 2001 - 2 matches: 1/4 and 1/2 finals
- Copa Libertadores 2004 - Final
- South American Youth Championship 2005 - 11 matches
- World Championship among youth teams 2011 - 5 matches of group C, 1 game 1/8 final
Notes
- ↑ Quienes Somos (Spanish) . Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros (2012). Date of treatment June 17, 2013. Archived June 18, 2013.