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Football stadium in Luanda, Angola
Campo Mário Santiago
LocationLuanda, Angola
Coordinates08°48′31″S 13°16′02″E / 8.80861°S 13.26722°E / -8.80861; 13.26722
OwnerProgresso do Sambizanga
Capacity16,000
Construction
Renovated1996 (29 years ago) (1996)

Campo Mário Santiago is a football stadium in Angola owned by football club Progresso Associação do Sambizanga. Located in the club's home neighborhood of Sambizanga, the 8,000-seat stadium whose rehabilitation began in 1996 with private funding and stopped afterwards for lack of funding, resumed in 2016 under a sponsorship deal with the Fundação Eduardo dos Santos (FESA). The stadium's capacity is expected to be increased to 16,000 seats following the 18-month-long rehabilitation.

History

The area were the court is located was the home ground of two football clubs that closed down in the post-independence period: Académica do Ambrizete and Benfica do Quinzau.

During the pro-communist rule that followed the country's independence in 1975, the area where the court is located was called Campo da Revolução (Revolution Camp) and was the venue of several firing-squad executions ordered by the MPLA regime in 1975, the most famous of which was the shooting of MPLA commander Virgílio Sotto Mayor under the charge of treason.

Following that ill-famed period, the field was renamed in honour of Angolan nationalist Mário Afonso Santiago (9 Sep 1942–13 Nov 1971), a local resident, ownership given to Progresso do Sambizanga and the construction work for the football stadium beginning afterwards.

References

  1. "Progresso chairperson points out gains of Mário Santiago Stadium". ANGOP.com. 24 Jun 2016. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 24 Jun 2016.
  2. "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  3. "Biografia oficial do nacionalista Virgílio Sotto Mayor (Official Biography of Virgílio Sotto Mayor)" (in Portuguese). club-k.net. 31 Aug 2009. Retrieved 24 Jun 2016.


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