Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana , Cuba . Built as a baseball stadium, it is now used primarily for football matches, and is the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana . The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929.
4-464: Originally named Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical (or familiarly, La Tropical ), it hosted the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games , the 1937 Bacardi Bowl and many Cuban League baseball games. After the revolution , it was renamed for Pedro Marrero, a young man who died in the attack on the Moncada Barracks . During the golden age of Cuban baseball, La Tropical was the home of
8-707: A sports venue in Cuba is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a baseball venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games The second Central American and Caribbean Games ( Spanish : Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos ) were held in Havana , Cuba from 15 March to 5 April 1930. The event featured 596 athletes from nine nations ( Costa Rica , Cuba , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Jamaica , Mexico , Panama , and Puerto Rico ), competing in ten sports. Women participated in
12-466: The Cuban League from the early 1930s to 1946. It also hosted major international events, including five Amateur World Series tournaments from 1939 to 1943 . However, it was displaced as the temple of Cuban baseball after the construction of the nearby Estadio El Cerro (the modern Estadio Latinoamericano ) in 1946. After 1946, La Tropical hosted several upstart leagues that sought to challenge
16-704: The monopoly that the Cuban League held on professional baseball on the island; the Cuban Federation League of 1946-47 (renamed the National League for 1947–48) was bankrolled by the stadium's owner, Julio Blanco Herrera. The stadium is located in the ward of Ceiba , part of the municipal borough of Playa ; next to the borders with Nuevo Vedado , borough of Plaza de la Revolución . [REDACTED] Media related to Estadio Pedro Marrero at Wikimedia Commons This article about
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