San Lorenzo New Stadium

San lorenzo one of the oldest teams in the argentine football association is planning to build a new stadium in boedo a working class neighbourhood in the argentine capital.

San lorenzo new stadium. Estadio gasometro was a multi purpose stadium in the barrio neighborhood of boedo buenos aires argentina. San lorenzo which won south americas libertadores cup for the first time this year are to build a new stadium in the historic gasometro district of boedo in the buenos aires suburbs. The only team that defeated san lorenzo was real madrid by 41. This seems very optimistic and likely too much so but at least for now san lorenzos dream to return to their home soil has gotten a lot closer to reality.

The new stadium will be built on land seized from the club during the 1976 1983 military dictatorship. The pope has long followed san lorenzo one of the oldest teams in the argentine football. That will of course not happen overnight as a new stadium the already named estadio papa francisco pope francis must be built first but. Last wednesday the 19th of february idom reached an agreement with club atletico san lorenzo de almagro argentina for the preliminary design and business model of its new stadium in the neighbourhood of boedo in buenos aires.

While legal and administrative procedures have been long and slow san lorenzo hope to be able to start construction of a new stadium which will be named after san lorenzo fan pope francis and have a capacity of 38000 seats in 2018 and move into their new home in 2020. The choice is idom a global company best known for having delivered the much praised san mames in bilbao. San lorenzo then moved to portugal where the squad showed its skilled play thrashing porto 94 and the portugal national team by 104. More than 100000 san lorenzo supporters flooded the streets of buenos aires neighbourhood boedo on sunday evening as the club joyously celebrated the move back to its traditional and rightful home.

It was the home ground of san lorenzo before they moved to their new stadium estadio pedro bidegain which is sometimes referred to as estadio nuevo gasometro new gasometer in 1993the stadium had a capacity of 75000 people. In december marcelo tinelli was elected the 33rd president of san lorenzo de almagro. By late january he was ready to present the new stadiums architects to the roughly 100000 socios. San lorenzos president matias lammens has expressed his desire to have a new stadium ready in 2016 which has the added symbolism of being a century after the old gasometro opened.