Estádio Presidente Antônio Carlos, Football stadium in Lourdes district, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The Estádio Presidente Antônio Carlos, known as Estádio de Lourdes and Estadinho da Colina, was a football stadium in the Lourdes neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It had a concrete grandstand along Rua Rio Grande do Sul divided into three sectors, a wall on Rua Gonçalves Dias, and open cement terraces behind a wire fence. Its capacity was about 5,000.
The stadium opened in 1929 and remained the home ground of Atlético Mineiro until 1950, hosting regional championships throughout those years. The structure was later demolished and replaced by a shopping center in 1994.
The ground was nicknamed Estadinho da Colina, "Hill's Small Stadium", after the Lourdes slope where it stood. Its opening on 30 May 1929 drew a crowd that saw Atlético Mineiro beat Corinthians 4-2, and the stadium's presence helped increase the population and foot traffic of the Lourdes neighborhood.
The site is in the Lourdes neighborhood, close to the city center, and easy to reach on foot or by public transport. Since the stadium was demolished in 1994, visitors today will only find the shopping center built in its place.
On 9 August 1930, FIFA president Jules Rimet attended the first night match played under the stadium's new floodlights, a 10–2 Atlético Mineiro win over Sport. It was the first ground in Minas Gerais with lighting for night games, and Rimet returned a week later for a 1–1 draw with Fluminense.
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