Estadio Diego Armando Maradona

The Estadio Diego Armando Maradona is a football stadium located in the district of Villa General Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[6] At the end of 2003 works concluded, after several interruptions for economic reasons, since the stadium was built with genuine money paid into the club and not by companies or donations, as some versions wanted to indicate, reopening with a great party on December 26 of that year, with 30,000 people in the stands to watch how a team of Argentinos Juniors' former players of the 1985 Copa Libertadores winning team against the squad that achieved promotion to Primera División in 1997, plus a match between the U20 Argentinos Juniors vs a combined of past club legends from the youth academy including Esteban Cambiasso, Juan Pablo Sorín and Claudio Borghi.

The aforementioned teams were managed, respectively, by Roberto Saporiti, Osvaldo Chiche Sosa, José Pekerman, and Hugo Tocalli, all of them former players or coaches of the club and identified with it.

[7] Lionel Messi made his debut with the Argentina U20 national team in this stadium and scored his first international goal in a friendly match against Paraguay on 29 June 2004.

[8][9] In March 31st 1973 there was a Rock Festival to celebrate the victory of the peronist formula Cámpora-Solano Lima at the recent General Elections after eighteen years of proscription of the Justicialist Party.

The festival counted with the presence of foundational bands and artists of the rock, blues and early metal scene of Argentina such as: Aquelarre, Billy Bond y La Pesada del Rock and Roll, Pappo’s Blues, Pescado Rabioso, Sui Generis, Dulces (Dulcemembriyo), Gabriela Parodi, León Gieco, Raúl Porchetto, Escarcha, Color Humano, Litto Nebbia and Pajarito Zaguri.

The band played a selection of its own songs mixed with tributes to the figure of Diego Maradona and to the music of Pappo Napolitano, Billy Bond y La Pesada del Rock and Roll, Luis A. Spinetta and Ricardo Iorio among others.

Grandstand over J.A. García street, c. 1970
The stadium during a match in 2011