Estadio Ramón "Tahuichi" Aguilera is a multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country...

, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. It is used mostly for football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches, on club level by Club Blooming

Club Blooming

Club Social, Cultural y Deportivo Blooming is a Bolivian football club from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, formed on May 1, 1946. Its home colours are sky blue, white and navy. They play at the Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera . Its main rival is Oriente Petrolero, also from Santa Cruz...

, Oriente Petrolero

Oriente Petrolero

Club Deportivo Oriente Petrolero is a Bolivian football club based in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Founded on November 5, 1955 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia by workers of the Bolivian oil company . They play at the 38,000-capacity Estadio Tahuichi Aguilera. Oriente have been Bolivian champions four times, Copa...

, and Club Destroyers

Club Destroyers

Club Destroyers is a football club from Santa Cruz, Bolivia currently playing in both the Nacional B second division and in Santa Cruz Primera A, one of the third division regional leagues....

. 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.