Stadium
It is the home of Alajuelense, is owned and operated by La Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, and is located in El Llano neighborhood of Alajuela.
Known in Costa Rica as La Catedral del Futbol, that means The Cathedral of Football. On July 20, 1966, due to a motion by the Municipality of Alajuela, the stadium was renamed to honor under Alejandro Morera Soto, nicknamed as El Mago del Balon, that means The magician of the ball; notable former player of Alajuelense, FC Barcelona and Hércules CF, and for a commercial purpose in an agreement with the financial institution in 2011 it was added the name Scotiabank.
The project to find a proper site for a permanent home started in 1938, when the director of the club, Carlos Bolaños, proposed that the club should purchase its own land. The land was purchased on October 7, 1940, but the terrain would not be football-ready until when the first game was played on January 18, 1942, when Alajuelense played against Club Sport Cartagines; the stadium only had a simple wooden stand that was previously used in the Estadio Nacional.
On September 27, 1949, a professor from a local high school named Armando Morux Sancho started what was called La marcha del ladrillo, meaning The Brick's March in which every student would donate a brick to help building the concrete walls of the stadium and start building the concrete stands. The first stands that were built were the ones located in north, west an east around the pitch.
On March 19, 1970, the stadium saw its first night game when Alajuelense faced Honduran club Motagua, beating them 4–1.
In 1979, the enlargement of the stadium was initiated with the project of building a second stand on top of the first already built and add an additional stand over the dressing and conference room (south) and also, add roof to the stand located on east and the one located on south after was finished. The project was fully completed in 1984. The stadium was re-inaugurated that year along with the new illumination, which was at the moment, in the top illuminations systems.
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