The remodeling of
La Bombonera
is an agenda item that has been repeated in a loop in recent times, especially during election campaign times.
Each candidate arrives accompanied with a project so that
Boca
's home can increase its capacity and thus make room for thousands of members and fans who weekend after weekend are left without the possibility of seeing the team they love.
Thus, trapped between the refusal of the neighbors of the neighboring houses to sell their properties and the conviction of not moving to another place, the possibility of enlarging the Bombonera seemed impossible.
And he seems to be writing because in the last few hours he unveiled a new project that promises to enlarge the current stadium to 90,000 spectators without the need to buy those neighborhood blocks.
The architect
Rodrigo Vidal
burst into different media telling his idea.
"Our project, what we managed to do, is not to buy from any neighbors, not to invade any streets, not to leave La Bombonera. Renew the existing court."
And he detailed:
"We raised the playing field about 7.80 meters and moved it towards the tracks
, that allows us to make the field larger. The first ring would disappear and the VIP boxes too, we completed two trays and added a new one at the top. All without invading the street. And
the court would end up having three covered trays for 90,000 spectators with 440 VIP boxes. It's like a magic pass
," the architect told the
sports newspaper Olé
.
🏟️ BOMBONERA: THE NEW ALTERNATIVE TO EXPAND THE COURT
👉 Rodrigo Vidal's project would take the capacity of the stadium to almost 90 thousand people, without the need to buy the properties from the residents of Del Valle Iberlucea street.
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And he added: "We had a meeting in Boca at the end of last year, with a two-hour presentation and a masterplan, which includes enlarging a basketball microstadium and many other things, so that a European-style complex can operate. We had the meeting with
Ricardo Rosica
, general secretary, and with Alejandro Desimone, who is in charge of basketball."
The proposal presented to Boca
also includes the construction of a complex with a new micro-stadium for basketball
with capacity for 15,860 spectators.
"It's going to be better than Movistar," warned the architect, who explained that the work - for which the costs are not known - would take between 12 and 18 months.
Boca's response
Vidal's project is just that: a project.
Boca did not acknowledge receipt of the architect's statements and tried to distance themselves from the matter by appealing to silence.
"La Bombonera is getting better and better. We would like to tell people that we are going to build a giant stadium, that we are going to put two hundred thousand people in, but in life I learned that we should not lie. We should always tell the truth. We have Of course, if tomorrow we can make the field it has to be here in the same place where we are. If we move the field to Casa Amarilla or wherever, we lose all the history we have. We have the hope of growing every day as a club: "not only in football but in other sports as well because it is what we want to do. Without a doubt, if we can at some point build our stadium in the same place where we are, we would be delighted to do so," Juan Román Riquelme declared days ago on TNT. Sports.
And he continued: "The other day I gave an answer about what's happening with the neighbors, because that's what happened. It makes me feel, when I'm thinking, that I have to go knock on someone's door and have the owner open it for me, the pain or the son and unconsciously having to tell him 'you have to leave your house'. Because going to propose 'will you sell me your house?', is 'do you want to leave your house?' and it already bothers me a little bit. ".
The new Bombonera project, with a plan to raise the playing field and extend the stands.
Thus, Vidal's project joins the others that have been in development for years: the Slovenian Project, La Bombonera 360° (currently in government), Nueva Bombonera on Demarchi Island (partner Jorge Reale) and La Bombonera Siglo XI ( promoted by former candidates Ibarra and Macri).
"I didn't talk to Riquelme, but what the leaders told me was that he wanted something like that but he didn't know how to do it. Leave it where it is, don't take the houses from the neighbors. The leaders were surprised because everyone told them it was It is impossible to do this. We provide a real solution, within the property, and you do not have to ask anyone's permission. And even for the economic issue. I think it will be the best in Argentina, I saw the renders that River proposes and this field is to be superior," Rodrigo Vidal concluded.
The new Bombonera project, with a plan to raise the playing field and extend the stands.
Will the new Bombonera expansion project be able to prosper?
Will there be a meeting between architect Vidal and President Riquelme?