Sports
The stadium is home venue for the UANL Tigres. Made for the American football team UANL Auténticos Tigres. It was given to Sinergia Deportiva as part of Tigres assets.
This stadium hosted several matches of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. It has also hosted matches of the Copa Libertadores de América in 2005 and 2006, as UANL Tigres qualified to the prestigious tournament on those years and played home in it. For a short period, it was also the home venue for the Rayados de Monterrey. It also hosted several matches of the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Read more about this topic: Estadio Universitario
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)