River Plate, one of Argentina’s biggest football forces, announced a plan to expand the capacity of the Monumental de Núñez from 72,000 to 81,000 spectators.
The measure will make the famous stadium in Buenos Aires, where Messi and company’s team usually play their matches, the largest in South America.
The capacity of the Monumental, when the renovation is completed, will be greater than that of the current record holder, also a Monumental, but the one in Lima, Peru, which can accommodate an audience of 80,000.
The time is gone, and it’s been a long time, when Brazil had the biggest soccer arena on the planet.
Maracanã, in Rio de Janeiro, received close to 200,000 fans in the 1950 World Cup final (Brazil 1 x 2 Uruguay, Maracanazo).
Currently, after some shrinkage, the capacity of the Mário Filho stadium is 78,838.
Even so, he is the largest in the country, followed by Mané Garrincha (72,800), in Brasília, and by Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, Morumbi (66,800), in São Paulo, another who was once much more giant, as it opened to 149,400 in the early 1960s.
And in the world? What is the largest stadium currently hosting football events? Will River Plate be close to the main one?
No, it won’t, and by a large margin.
The current largest arena on the planet is located in the very closed dictatorship of North Korea. It is the Rungrado stadium, which is located on the island of Rungra, in the capital, Pyongyang.
Opened on May 1, 1989, its capacity is for 114,000 people (it used to be 150,000), or 40% more than the Monumental de Núñez will have.
Other large stadiums that host football matches are Camp Nou (for 99,354 fans), in Barcelona; the FNB (94,736), in Johannesburg (South Africa); Wembley (90 thousand), in London; the Azteca (87,523), in Mexico City, and the Bukit Jalil (87,411), in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
Those mentioned are the houses, in order, of Barcelona; the South African team and the Kaizer Chiefs; of the English national team; the Mexican national team, América and Cruz Azul; and the Malaysian national team.
With the gathering of the names of stadiums mentioned, they are represented so far, geographically, South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
In Oceania, the stadium in Sydney, which will host matches for the Women’s World Cup in 2023, is the one that can receive more people (83,500), and in Central America the title goes to Cuscatlán (44,800), based in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
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