Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera

Estadio Ramon Tauichi Aguilera
El Tauichi,
Full name	Estadio Ramon Tauichi Aguilera
Former names	Estadio William Bendeck (1945–1980)
Location	Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Broke ground	28 January 1938
Built	1938-1940
Opened	25 May 1940
Renovated	1995-96
Owner	Oriente Petrolero, Blooming
Surface	Grass
Capacity	38,000
Field dimensions	105 x 64.7 m
Tenants
Oriente Petrolero Club Blooming Club Destroyers	1980-present

Estadio Ramón "Tahuichi" Aguilera is a multi-purpose stadium in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is used mostly for football matches, on club level by Club Blooming, Oriente Petrolero, and Club Destroyers. The stadium has a capacity of 38,000 people and was built in 1939. It was also one of the official stadiums for the 1997 Copa America as well as a number of international regional tournaments, such as, Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana. Initially, it was known as Estadio William Bendeck, but in 1980 it was renamed after the Bolivian player Ramón Aguilera Costas.

Organized by the Tahuichi Academy, every year during January this stadium hosts one of the greatest youth football (soccer) tournaments in the world, the "Mundialito Paz y Unidad." Past participants of the U-15 tournament have included Real Madrid, Benfica, Atlas FC, Vasco da Gama, River Plate, Colo-Colo and many youth national teams.

History (changes name)

At first it was named Estadio Departamental de Santa Cruz, then in 1972 on the death row wheel racing and credit of Santa Cruz Willy Bendeck in a local competition, sport cruceño decides to name the stadium departmental "Willy Bendeck" that from that date was known nationally and internationally.

In 1979 the football academy Tahuichi Aguilera is invited to an international soccer tournament U-15 to be held in Argentina, with an important role to play and reaching the final of the tournament and came to be crowned tournament champion, this fact makes Sport Santa Cruz in just recognition of the founder of this academy football (Eng Ramon Tahuichi "Aguilera) decided to rename the department and is called stage Tahuichi Aguilera whose name it bears to date

Renovation 2009-10

In 2008 the owner of the stadium said he would see changes in January 2009. But after several concert on the stadium, the owner decided that the next year they would not be any music concert anymore.In 2009 They painted the bleachers, renewed the program, and the owner told the Bolivian newspaper that in May 2010 the owner and the tenant club would decided whether the stadium was completely renovate it or demolish the stadium so the capacity can be extend to 48,000.

Events

• Luis Miguel December 08, 2010 (Luis Miguel Tour)