Bernardo Gil
The stadium was renamed in order to honor the name of Bernardo "Candela" Gil, a pioneer in San Miguelito's football who managed to expropriate the land where the present stadium lies, and over the years developed the land into a functional stadium for the people of San Miguelito.
The land before the expropriation was used as a "cantina" where locals would go to drink day and night. Seeing the land go to waste, Bernardo Gil and other pioneers fought hard, and even radically to get the land expropriated to the district; he even went to jail numerous times. It was not until Panamanian general Omar Torrijos saw how hard they were fighting for the construction of a football field where the district could paractice the sport safely, that he ordered for the land to be expropriated and handed to the district. Later on the stadium was built and opened in 1977.
Bernardo Gil went on to become president of the district league and provisional league; he remained president until his death.
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