Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
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| San Carlos de Apoquindo | |
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| San Carlos | |
| Location | Camino Las Flores #13.000, Santiago,Chile |
| Opened | September, 1988 |
| Owner | Universidad Catolica |
| Operator | Universidad Catolica |
| Surface | Grass ( 108 x 68 metres) |
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Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo is a multi-use stadium in Santiago, Chile. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Deportivo Universidad Católica. The stadium holds 20,000 people and was built in 1988.
[edit] History
At the club's beggining , all sports were on Santa Rosa de las Condes Stadium , which is a big sport centre that is going to be demolished and transported to San Carlos. The club president of the time Manuel Vélez Samaniego decided to open this sports complex.
[edit] The Stadium
By 1945, the club played as the home team at the Independencia Stadium which was demolished because of the finacial problems of the club , and started to play at Union Española Stadium , the Santa Laura. In 1980 the idea of a new stadium comes out , the stadium was opened on September 4, 1988, the football stadium wasnt the whole complex, the stadium had also Rugby , Atletism and some other sport fields. By this time , San Carlos is one of the best sports complex on South America
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