Estadio Mestalla - Stadium Valencia

Estadio Mestalla is a football stadium in Valencia, Spain. It is the home stadium of football club Valencia CF. It has a capacity of 53,000 seats (v'ek session) and is the fifth největ'ím stadium in Spain. It is also renowned for its steep terrace and roaring atmosphere at matches. (In 2009, the club is waiting v'ak moving to a new stadium - the Nou Mestalla. New stadium should have a capacity of 75,000 spectators.) 20 May 1923 was inaugurated a friendly match between Valencia CF home and Levante UD. It was the beginning of a new era, which ended the old působi'ti, Algirósu that will always remain in our memories fanou'ků Valencia as the first. The history of the stadium dates back to ancient times, when Valencia played je'tě Primera Division. At the stadium could only accommodate 17 000 spectators (vět'ina or sit), but the club began to show its potential, especially in home 'Champion, forcing the club to implement changes to the stadium early - in 1927. Stadium capacity increased to 25,000 seats, but before it was demolished stadium je'tě result of the civil war. Mestalla was also used as unfortunately skladi'tě waste. To avoid this, one needed only to strengthen fences and generally unavailable to unauthorized persons stadium. Once renovated stadium, the team began to flourish. In 1941, he could enjoy his first team title in the league. Valencia played a "huge" and after reconstruction dal'í players to chase on a new, kvalitněj'ím lawn. In dal'ích years, thanks to legends like Epi, Amadeo, Mundo, Asensi and Guillermo Gorostiza, 3 team won league titles and two league cups. These years of great success not only greatly famous club, but also the stadium. During the fifties největ'í stadium has undergone changes in its history. These changes resulted in the stadium with a capacity of 45,500 spectators. This stadium, but probably not much desire; in 1957, severe floods hit the city. Yet v'ak the club was able to muster, not only correct the "damage inflicted by floods, and even added some vylep'ení, such as artificial lighting, which was first used in Fallaských celebrations in 1959. It was dal'í step towards a new era stadium. In 'edesátých stadium's appearance has not changed, but look at the city and its surroundings are. Even so changed that it was considered one of the places in Europe nejpohledněj'ích (that resulted in more tourists and thus also vět'í náv'těvnost stadium). The first foreign team that played at the Mestalla official match was Nottingham Forest. The match was played on the 15th September 1961 and was the first encounter so-called golden times full of successes, reinforced je'tě Fairs Cup victory in 1962 and 1963. Mestalla so rightfully began divided between the stadiums where they took place nejdůležitěj'í the football games. Since 1969, the term "Anem a Mestalla" (Let's go to Mestalla) between fanou'ky club ceased to use it. The reason for renaming the stadium, which would mean the recognition by the club donated his největ'í icon (Luis Casanova Giner - President), who worked at the club nearly a quarter century. Luis Casanova Giner but admitted that he was completely taken aback by such a tribute and in 1994 he demanded that the Mestalla stadium called again.