The Estadio Aldo Cantoni is an

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located in the city of

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, capital of San Juan Province. Inaugurated in July 1967, it is mainly use by local clubs UPCN and Obras Pocito for their home matches for the Serie A1, the top level of the

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men's

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league system. The stadium was named after Aldo Cantoni (1892–1948), politician, governor of San Juan Province between 1926 and 1928, twice President of the

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, President of the

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and co-founder of the Unión Cívica Radical Bloquista political party.

Overview

left, 120px, The stadium was named after Aldo Cantoni (pictured) UPCN won the national league for six consecutive years, from 2010-11 to 2015-16 season, using the Aldo Cantoni arena as home venue.

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is a very popular sport in Cuyo, specially in San Juan Province, where it has been practised since the 1930s. In those times, players used the recently paved streets as field to play the sport. This stadium has hosted five times the

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, and it is also used by several teams for their Liga Nacional Argentina A-1 matches. San Juan was one of the venues for the

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, hosting five out of six matches for Group A. The opening match of the tournament, between

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and

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, was held at the Luna Park Stadium, in

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Sporting events

Events hosted include roller hockey, volleyball,

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, and

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matches, listed as follows: * 1970 Roller Hockey World Cup * 1978 Roller Hockey World Cup * 1989 Roller Hockey World Cup * 2001 Rink Hockey World Championship *

* 2011 FIRS Men's Roller Hockey World Cup * 2015 Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship *

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* 2018 Davis Cup tie between Argentina and Chile * 2018 Davis Cup World Group play-offs tie between Argentina and Colombia * Torneo Cuatro Naciones de Handball 2019

Concerts

On September 28, 1979, the world star

Raffaella Carrà Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (18 June 1943 – 5 July 2021), known professionally as Raffaella Carrà () and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model. She is often widely cons ...

gave a concert at the venue. The movement that she generated was such that it was even decided to modify some aspects of the stadium to improve the acoustics and make it perfect just for her. At the same time an international technical team arrived in the province to set up the stage and arrange the lights under which the singer would perform.El día que Raffaella Carrá movió a los sanjuaninos y convulsionó el estadio cerrado
on Diario de Cuyo, 5 May 2021

References

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