The 'new' house of Real Madrid

EI Madrid will 'debut' home on their return to the League this Sunday against Eibar. After the field of O'Donnell (1912-23), Chamartín (1924-47) and the Bernabéu (since 1947 and currently undergoing reforms), this Sunday the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium It will be the fourth field owned by the club in which they will play an official match at home. The fief of Castilla was designed in 2005 to exercise as a 'mini Bernabéu' in which the kids will grow of the subsidiary and host select matches of the quarry, but it is a very little known area. Now, Di Stéfano has become handsome to welcome the elderly …

The first

On May 9, 2006 it was inaugurated and Ramos, who if not, made the first goal in the Real Madrid-Stade Reims friendly (Zidane's last game in white). But the one who released the scoreboard in official party It was Soldier, on May 21, 2006, in a 4-1 from Castilla to Málaga B. Since then, Di Stéfano has always been seen by 'his' stadium. It will remain present in spirit and statue by the artist Pedro Montes who recreates Alfredo's goal against the Hungarian Vasas of Budapest in the European Cup.

Guarded lawn

Designed by Carlos Lamela and with capacity for 6,000 spectators (expandable to 8,400 in funds and preconditioned to reach 27,000 in the future), the club bet on some dimensions of the pitch identical to those of the Bernabéu (105×68 meters) and the grass (a hybrid managed by an Italian brand) is the same. Everything under the eye of Paul Burgess, than remote from a panel the 14 fields of Valdebebas. The head gardener It has also been on top of the green these days …

Is familiar to them

Schuster, Mourinho, Ancelotti, Own Zidane… many technicians have used this stadium for rehearsals and the current white squad will not notice much difference between the comforts of this wardrobe and that of the Bernabéu. Nacho, Lucas, Carvajal, Mariano, Valverde, Casemiro, Ramos, Vinicius, Rodrygo and Reinier have played at Di Stéfano. Javi Hernández, Altube and Miguel Gutiérrez, youth squads recruited by Zizou, too. The team could even go walking from the residence where you will be concentrated but electric carts and buses will be used. Valdebebas is ecological. Use solar panels and water to water the fields it is recycled.

VAR, light and advertising

The club has gone retouching details since he found out that he had luz verde from LaLiga and UEFA to use Di Stéfano. The lighting has been reinforced and the advertising with pyramid LED screens. In the case of the VAR, 22 necessary cameras have been installed for category A matches. Everything is almost ready for the ball to roll.