Stadium
Nacional plays most home games at its own stadium, the 25,000 (and growing) capacity Gran Parque Central (soon to be 30,000), built in 1900. In recent decades the stadium had not been used very often because Nacional played at the national stadium Estadio Centenario, sharing it with Peñarol. High-risk matches and derbies are still played at the Centenario. Since 2005, the renovation of Parque Central allowed Nacional to play home matches there more often.
Parque Central is located in "Quinta de la Paraguaya" a historic place where a Uruguayan military hero was named "Jefe de los Orientales" Uruguayan leader (military speaking) in 1811.
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)