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Estadio Anoeta is a multi-purpose stadium in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Real Sociedad. In recent years, it has also been used for occasional Heineken Cup rugby union fixtures by nearby French club Biarritz Olympique. The stadium, which holds 32,076, was inaugurated in 1993.
[edit] Change proposals
In 2004, José Luis Astiazarán, the president at the moment of the Real Sociedad, launched a project called Gipuzkoarena[1]. Planned to be finished in 2007, it pretended to increase the stadium's capacity to 42,000, but it would lose the athletics track. The project also intended to construct a hotel and shops, among other items. This proposal was soon rejected by the city council and left behind[2].
In the end of 2007, Badiola, as candidate for president of Real Sociedad, proposed that the club bought the stadium[3]. This was also soon rejected by the city council[4]. In 2008, Badiola, already as president, made another two proposals for the stadium[5], one of them similar to Gipuzkoarena. They were going to be studied by the city council. But Badiola finished as president the 20th of december of that year.
[edit] References
- ^ Gipuzkoarena (video proposal in YouTube -Spanish-)
- ^ Elorza comunica a la Real que el Gipuzkoarena "pertenece ya al pasado" (El País, 31/08/2004 -Spanish-)
- ^ Badiola propone que la Real compre Anoeta al Ayuntamiento (diariovasco.com, 4/12/2007 -Spanish-)
- ^ Odón Elorza frena la propuesta de Badiola de comprar Anoeta (diariovasco.com, 6/12/2007 -Spanish-)
- ^ Badiola propone al Ayuntamiento convertir Anoeta en zona residencial y trasladar el estadio (Noticias de Gipuzkoa, 15/04/2008 -Spanish-)
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