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This Sunday, when Expansion League Final between Atlante and Tampico Madero, Colts will have an additional rival: the curse of the Blue Stadium. And no team that played as a local in that building managed to pick up a champion trophy, with a clearer case being Cruz Azul and his countless setbacks.
Since 1947, the colossus of the Nochebuena neighborhood has hosted football games because, despite being inaugurated a year earlier, it was originally busy for American football games. Atlas, America, Necaxa and Cruz Azul played home matches at the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium and none could be crowned.
The Atlante title was in Monterrey
In the 92-93 season, Ricardo La Volpe’s Atlante was crowned in Mexican football, but The Olympic return was given at the Tecnológico de Monterrey stadium, defeating La Pandilla there in the Vuelta game.
Years later, The Blue Cross adopted the former Azulgrana stadium as its home, changing its name to Blue Stadium and playing there from 1996 to 2018. The latest remote title that The Machine has in Winter 97, but like the Atlanteans in 92-93, they won the title in a foreign court at beats the Lion at the New Field, so the capital’s stadium did not see the title.
Cruzazuleadas in blue
The curse of the blue stadium was sharpened when The Machine lost two finalsThese were disputed in the property: one against Pachuca in the winter of 1999 and the other against Monterrey in the 2009 Apertura.
Atlantean, the closest was
He the first Atlantean title In the professional era of Mexican football was in The 1946-47 season, when the champion was defined with the team that got the most points and in that campaign Colts played at home on this stadium.
The reason this championship does not break the curse is due to the fact that on the last day of that season Atlante had to play in León against Fiera, but an epidemic caused by foot-and-mouth disease in Guanajuato played the game in Sports City Stadiumand, although the Catalans were crowned with a goalless draw, they played that match like administrative visitors.