National Stadium of Chile

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It is the main sports complex in Chile, located in the Estadio Nacional Sports Park, a multidisciplinary sports complex with an area of ​​about 64 hectares, in the community of Ñuñoa in the city of Santiago. The coliseum has a capacity of 49,000 seated spectators - being the one with the highest capacity in the country - and a central soccer field surrounded by an athletic track.

Opened in 1938, it has been the local headquarters of the Chilean national football team since 1939. In 1948 the South American Championship of Champions was developed, which inspired the creation of the European Champions Club Cup - the current UEFA Champions League - in 1955 and the Champions Cup of America - today Copa Libertadores de América - in 1960.5 6 It hosted various matches of the 1962 Soccer World Cup and the 1987 U-20 Soccer World Cup, including its finals. It also hosted the III and X South American Games respectively in 1986 and 2014, as well as the VIII U-20 World Athletics Championships in 2000. In 2008 he was baptized as the local sports journalist.

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It is the stadium in which more games have been played in the Copa América with 74; the second that has received more finals of the Copa Libertadores, once, and where more times his trophy has been delivered, eight; as well as - along with La Bombonera de Argentina - in which the South American Cup has been awarded more times, two, which makes it a historic stadium for South American football.

In other movements, it was used as a detention and torture center during the military dictatorship in Chile in 1973 and has hosted various musical, civic and religious events, highlighting the meeting with young people that Pope John Paul II held in 1987. In 2003 the Council of National Monuments declared it as Historical Monument.

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