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Spanish football club "Atletico Madrid": stadium. Title, history, description, photo

About how the stadium "Atletico Madrid" is called, today many football fans are interested. The reason for this interest is the huge popularity of the club around the world. In the ranks the team gathered well-known coaches and players, who annually compete for the highest places in national and European cups. "Atletico Madrid", the stadium of which is filled with fans at almost every match, has a rich history and an entire army of fans not only in Spain, but all over the world.

Base

As already mentioned, "Atletico Madrid" is the most popular and, in combination, the oldest club in Spain. The day of foundation of the football team is April 26, 1903. The founders of the club are three students who were trained in Madrid. Initially, "Atletico Madrid", the stadium of which is today the largest and most beautiful, did not even have a home arena.

In general, in the first years of its existence the club was supposed to be one of the branches of another well-known Spanish team - Athletic Bilbao. As a result, "Athletic Madrid" did not participate in the competitions, and played only friendly matches. Despite this, the team showed quite a good game and could fight even with strong rivals.

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Only on February 20, 1907 the team was able to register in the Football Federation of Spain. The club became known as the "Athletic Club de Madrid", not "Atletico Madrid". The stadium for the performances of the team was still not provided. From this moment the football club became independent and got the right to play in the tournaments held.

Club colors

Probably everyone who has at least some interest in football knows that Atletico Madrid, whose stadium is called Vincente Calderon, has a red and white color. However, this was not always the case. Originally the colors of the club were similar to the colors of "Athletics" from Bilbao - blue and white uniforms. Changes occurred in 1911, when it was decided to try out T-shirts that had red and white vertical stripes.

To sew the mold at that time, often used material for sewing mattresses. That's why carriers of this kind of form are often called "mattresses." However, the nickname is particularly strongly entrenched for the "Atletico Madrid".

Stadium

As mentioned above, initially, "Atletico Madrid" did not have its own stadium. The president helped the club to get home. The stadium was named "O'Donnell". The first game took place on February 9, 1913. However, in this arena the team from Madrid performed only ten years, and in 1923 received a new place for games. Stadium "Atletico Madrid", which capacity was 35 800 spectators, the first match took against Real Sociedad.

The first part of the twenties brought the team three titles, which were won in regional competitions. Already in 1926, the Madrid team was close to winning the national cup, but in the finals lost to the legendary "Barcelona".

History of Vicente Calderon

Rapidly evolving and growing "Atletico Madrid" constantly needed an increasingly spacious arena. Already by the year 60 of the last century, the stadium "Atletico Madrid", whose name was "Metropolitano", ceased to accommodate all the fans in the stands, and they had a lot of "Madrid". In the spring of the following year, the president of the team decided to purchase a plot of land, which will become the site of the new larger stadium. Almost immediately began work on the erection of the arena.

However, not everything was so simple. The construction of such a huge facility required substantial financial infusions. A few years before the work began, the team's management was forced to take a certain number of loans. Did not stay aside and the fans of "Atleteko", making personal savings. It took five years to build the stadium. The official opening was in October 1966 at the game against the "Valencia". To support the team on such a memorable day gathered sixty-two thousand spectators. The game, incidentally, ended with a score of 1: 1. The new stadium was named "Manzanaro".

In the spring the arena took the first Madrid derby in its history. The match with the "Real" winner did not reveal, ending with a score of 2: 2. In the summer of 1971, the leadership of Atletico Madrid held a meeting at which it was decided to rename the stadium. The new name was "Vicente Calderon". This name was given to the arena in honor of the director, who helped the team to achieve significant success. The period of his stay at the club by many fans is called golden. Soon after the renaming, there was also a reconstruction of the arena.

The first match after the reconstruction took place in May 1972. On the field, teams from Spain and Hungary competed. This game was visited by many representatives of Spain. In the summer of 1980, a meeting of the club's management took place, at which a new reconstruction was discussed. It should have ended before the start of the World Cup, which took place in 1982. Part of the costs had to take on "Atletico", the rest of the leadership received from the FIFA Committee.

In autumn 2008, the UEFA committee applied serious sanctions to Atletico. The result was that the requirement to close the stadium was put forward. The reason was the incident that happened at the match, "Atletico" - "Marseille".

New team stadium

At the end of July 2007, the Atletico leadership, one of the local breweries and the mayor of the city, organized a meeting at which they examined documents that revealed that the club is located on the banks of the Manzanares River. The team was denied reconstruction. Also within three years she had to move to the "La Payneta", in which the terrorist act was committed in 2005, the stadium "Atletico Madrid", photo of which could be found in many magazines, was subject to demolition.

Prior to this, the arena was used for various athletic competitions and had a small capacity - twenty thousand spectators. Today the stadium is in the final stage of construction. The new capacity will be seventy-three thousand spectators. The management of "Atletico" has to pay its full cost. "Vicente Calderon" will be subject to demolition, and in its place there will be a park. At the new arena, "Atletico" will be able to enter after 2016. Fans of the team were extremely unhappy with the decision to demolish the old stadium of the beloved club, they still advocate its preservation.

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