- Address: Rosario
- Country: Argentine Republic
- Capacity: 42,000
- Opened: 23 July 1911
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Newell’s Old Boys (football)
Extra stadium info – Estadio Marcelo A. Bielsa
The stadium is nicknamed El Coloso del Parque (The Colossus of the Park). It became one of the largest sports venues by capacity in the Argentine Republic, commonly known as Argentina. The venue is named after a former manager of the Newell’s Old Boys. The club named Newell’s Old Boys was founded in 1903. The football club is named after Isaac Newell, who was born in the United Kingdom in 1853. Isaac Newell moved to the Argentine Republic as a teenager.
The Newell’s Old Boys and Rosario Central
The Newell’s Old Boys and their arch-rivals Rosario Central became the first sports clubs from Rosario with 100,000 followers on their main social media page. Both clubs were crowned Argentine football champions several times. Rosario Central won the Argentine top-flight football league in 1971 for the first time in their history. The Newell’s Old Boys won the Argentine top-flight football league in 1974 for the first time in their history.
Diego Armando Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona, widely regarded as one of the best football players of all time, played five domestic league games for the Newell’s Old Boys in the 1990s. He scored no goals in those five games. Maradona played professional football for Argentinos Juniors, the Boca Juniors, FC Barcelona, SSC Napoli and Sevilla FC before he signed with the Newell’s Old Boys. He returned to the Boca Juniors after he left the Newell’s Old Boys. In 1986, Diego Armando Maradona won a FIFA World Cup title with the national football team of the Argentine Republic. He captained the national football team of the Argentine Republic in the 1986 FIFA World Cup final, which took place in Mexico City in front of a crowd of 114,000.
Lionel Andrés Messi
Lionel Andrés Messi joined the youth academy of the Newell’s Old Boys in 1995. He is widely regared as one of the best football players of all time. Messi left the youth academy of the Newell’s Old Boys in 2000. That year, he joined the youth academy of FC Barcelona. Lionel Messi won world championship titles with the Spanish club FC Barcelona. In 2022, he also won a world championship title with the national football team of the Argentine Republic.
