Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. Built as a baseball stadium, it is now used primarily for football matches, and is the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana. The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929.
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| Location |  Havana, Cuba |
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| Coordinates | 23°06′26″N 82°24′47″W / 23.107251°N 82.412918°W |
| Owner | Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba |
| Capacity | 30,000 [1] |
| Surface | Grass |
| Scoreboard | Manual (non-electric) |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1929 |
| Opened | 10 October 1930 |
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| Cuba national football team | |
Originally named Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical (or familiarly, La Tropical), it hosted the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games, the 1937 Bacardi Bowl and many Cuban League baseball games. After the revolution, it was renamed for Pedro Marrero, a young man who died in the attack on the Moncada Barracks.[2]
History
editDuring the golden age of Cuban baseball, La Tropical was the home of the Cuban League from the early 1930s to 1946. It also hosted major international events, including five Amateur World Series tournaments from 1939 to 1943. However, it was displaced as the temple of Cuban baseball after the construction of the nearby Estadio El Cerro (the modern Estadio Latinoamericano) in 1946.[3]
After 1946, La Tropical hosted several upstart leagues that sought to challenge the monopoly that the Cuban League held on professional baseball on the island; the Cuban Federation League of 1946-47 (renamed the National League for 1947–48) was bankrolled by the stadium's owner, Julio Blanco Herrera.[4]
Geography
editThe stadium is located in the ward of Ceiba, part of the municipal borough of Playa; next to the borders with Nuevo Vedado, borough of Plaza de la Revolución.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Estadio Pedro Marrero at aymsports.com.mx". Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
- ^ González Echevarría, Roberto (1999), The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball, Oxford University Press, p. 217, ISBN 0-19-514605-0
- ^ Gonzalez, p. 17
- ^ Gonzalez, p. 17
- ^ 259548259 Estadio Pedro Marrero on OpenStreetMap
External links
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Media related to Estadio Pedro Marrero at Wikimedia Commons
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