Go-ahead for Boca’s La Bombonera revamp



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La Bombonera one step closer to renovation Image: La Bombonera, Matibro, CC BY-SA 4.0

Argentinian football club Boca Juniors can push ahead with the renovation and expansion of their La Bombonera stadium after a key decision by the city of Buenos Aires Legislature.

A final hurdle for the project to overcome was removed when the stadium was excluded from a list of protected properties, allowing the club’s leadership to present renovation projects and increase its capacity.

Ole.com said the venue can now be expanded, renovated or modified, as the leadership headed by club president Juan Román Riquelme sees fit.

Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The club is best known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the Argentine Primera División, the top division of the Argentine football league system.

The 54,000-capacity Alberto José Armando Stadium is a football stadium located in La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is widely known as La Bombonera due to its shape, with a ‘flat’ stand on one side of the pitch and three steep stands round the rest of the stadium.

Edgardo Alifraco, former Boca manager and current legislator, as well as president of the commission said, “If you look at the final text to be considered, there are four properties that have been removed from the list to be analyzed.

“They are linked to sports institutions. Basically, they are the Boca Juniors Athletic Club field, La Bombonera; the River Plate Athletic Club stadium; and two properties belonging to the Huracán Athletic Club.

La Bombonera is a stadium inaugurated on May 25, 1940. Let’s think about the number of members Boca Juniors had in 1940 and the number it has today. It is impossible to freeze the possibility of reforms and expansion of this type of property. That is why we have removed these properties from consideration in the final text.”

Lat last year Boca Juniors presented before the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires a project to expand La Bombonera to hold 82,000 spectators.

In addition to sports use, such as football matches, the stadium would be used for other commercial and cultural events, the club said.

The initiative was spearheaded by the former president of Boca, Jorge Amor Ameal, and the project ‘Bonbonniere 360’ is all about expanding the Alberto J. Armando Stadium.

The ‘Bonbonniere 360’ project proposes the expansion of the facility by 20,000 seats installing a lightweight roof around the perimeter.

Since its inauguration on May 25th, 1940, only minor rejig work has been done on La Bombonera.

The master plan is to demolish the boxes and build three terraces identical to those facing the West side of the venue.

Fans are said to be in favour of the stadium expansion project.

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