The Ciudad de La Plata Stadium will be inspected this Monday by a technical commission of Conmebol before the imminent definition of what will happen with the Copa América, whose start is scheduled for Sunday, June 13, under the precedent that the football scene of The Buenos Aires capital was already the venue during the 2011 edition of this event, when its roof was released.
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Personnel from the South American organization are expected to arrive in La Plata in the morning, since the definition of the tournament organization is imminent most important of selections at continental level.
At present, this stadium, popularly called Unique but close to being called Diego Armando Maradona, it functions as the most important vaccination center in the province of Buenos Aires. If chosen as the venue, this would not be altered, since the sanitary sector would move to another part of the property, as happened when Boca and River played Copa Argentina matches there.
City of La Plata Stadium. Photos: Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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The vaccination center works in the sector of avenues 25 and 528, the main entrance to the stadium, and would move to avenue 32, using another space in the large area where the provincial stadium is built.
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One of the big concerns that the stadium authorities had was lighting, but this point has already been resolved, since it reaches the required 2,000 lux and there are also new lights that have not yet been installed. The only point that remains to be resolved is that of connectivity and, as reported, work is already underway to ensure that everything is in order.
City of La Plata Stadium. Photos: Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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It should be noted that the Conmebol inspected the Jorge Luis Hirschi Stadium in Estudiantes de La Plata last Monday, as well as others installed in Buenos Aires territory and also in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, such as Boca and Vélez.
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Last week, in addition to the stadium inspections, there was a meeting between the president of the South American soccer entity, Alejandro Domínguez, with the president of the Nation, Alberto Fernández and other government authorities, and from there they entered the area of Definitions and establishment of protocols to see if Argentina is in a position to fully organize the Copa América in the face of Colombia’s loss.
The Ciudad de La Plata Stadium was the scene of six matches of the 2011 Copa América, when the roof of the 25 and 32 stadium in the provincial capital was inaugurated. today is broken due to strong winds that broke several panels, something that happened before the start of the pandemic and that for the moment was not fixed due to a very important outlay of money.
The roof of the Ciudad de La Plata stadium was damaged due to inclement weather.
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After the inauguration of the neighboring Estudiantes stadium, the City of La Plata it was only used for two matches of the Argentine Cup this year, Boca – Defenders of Belgrano and River – Atlético Tucumán.
In the beginning, the Ciudad de La Plata Stadium was going to be the scene of five games if the Copa América was played last year, then one had been taken away and, finally, before the desertion of Australia (he was one of the two selected guests together Qatar) had 2 left and there Conmebol decided to eliminate the La Plata headquarters.
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The governing body of South American football then decided to reorganize the calendar, but now, faced with this new situation in which the possibility of Argentina being in charge of the complete organization of the tournament demands the need to have more stages, the capital of the first Argentine state fight to regain his place.
City of La Plata Stadium. Photos: Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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For the moment, the only four stadiums approved by Conmebol for the realization of this 47th. edition of the Copa América are the Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires; the Malvinas Argentinas, from Mendoza; Mario Alberto Kempes, from Córdoba; and the Sole-Mother of Cities, from Santiago del Estero.
