Antonio Aranda Stadium

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Antonio Stadium is a football stadium in Paraguay where the Club Atlético 3 de Febrero plays its home games. It is located just 5 minutes from the center of Ciudad del Este. The site has sometimes also been used for large-scale concerts, and has a capacity for 28,000 spectators.

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Also known as the Eastern Bastion, it was built in 1972 and remodeled in 1999 to be one of the headquarters of the Copa América held in that year. There were matches between the absolute teams of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. It also hosted ten games from the initial round of the 2007 U-20 South American Championship.

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This remodeling allowed the stadium to become the fourth largest in Paraguay, only surpassed by the Defensores del Chaco Stadium, the General Pablo Rojas Stadium of Cerro Porteño and the Feliciano Cáceres Stadium of Sportivo Luqueño, a fact that is more significant for club members as well as for the community of the Great City of the East. The total cost of the investment was around 5 million dollars, working on the building site between 800 and 1200 people. It has a press room, room for medical staff, room for technical talk, four modern changing rooms with their respective bathrooms, dressing room for referees, equipped gym, 32 booths for journalists, each with telephone line, own parking for vehicles and VIP lounge. In addition, the club's paste has an efficient drainage system that allows games to be carried out under heavy rains.

Interior of the stadium.

In November 2013, the name of the stadium was changed from Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Oddone Sarubbi to Antonio Aranda. Former club manager Antonio Aranda Encina was the one who, through his own company called Events and Constructions, made the construction possible of the stadium. In addition, he actively contributed to the first promotion of the team to the First Division in 2004.