Huracán making progress on the César Luis Menotti training ground | OneFootball

The land is in front of the Ducó and bears the name of the former coach who won the championship with the Globo in the 1973 Metropolitano. They have already installed a synthetic field and are planning a micro-stadium.

Huracán has been looking to expand territorially for many years. Since 2013, in fact, they have been aiming to do so around the Ducó, with a piece of land that has been unused for decades due to the dismantling of the gas pipeline that used to be installed there, behind the local stands. However, that precarious concession from the AABE was removed four years later because the club had not started any work. And it was in 2023, after a long struggle that included a group of Globo members who organized to collect signatures, that this lot of around 12,000 m² was recovered. “There is no politics here, this is Huracán's like La Quemita, the headquarters, and the stadium. We couldn't let it happen to us again,” explains Diego Giuliani, the manager in charge of the site.

Once Huracán recovered the land, they started “the invisible work”, as defined during the tour for the TyC Sports team. This phase consisted of breaking the base of the gas tanks, weeding, leveling the ground by raising the clay up to one and a half meters above the sidewalk, and consequently making the necessary drainage to prevent flooding in the adjacent lot.

Then, they made the corresponding installation of water pipes, gas, and electrical wiring. “We quickly put up the masts and once we set up the project, the shed where the administrative sector will be. It was a way to plant a flag, to say ‘here we are and this is Huracán’s’,” Giuliani emphasized.

Recently, they installed synthetic grass for the field that will mainly be used by the women's team and various youth categories of the club, aiming to decentralize La Quemita. The field meets FIFA's regulatory measures and also has the particularity that its goals were for a long time the posts of the Ducó, which naturally now has new ones. The club's goal is to start building the corresponding locker rooms, which they hope to complete by May 2026. It should be noted that it will bear the name César Luis Menotti, in honor of the coach who won the 1973 Metropolitano, one of the institution's greatest idols.

Once this task is completed, they will move forward with the multi-purpose micro-stadium so that disciplines like baby football, futsal, volleyball, and handball have a place to compete more comfortably and even with stands. This would mean that in the future Huracán could create a primary school in the annex of the Urquiza Street headquarters, where baby football currently operates and the school would eventually be built, a pending project that the current management seeks to fulfill.

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