Las Gaunas, one of the missing stadiums in Spain
¡Goal in Las Gaunas! This mythical battle cry was most recognized in the time when television platforms and parties did not exist., they were played at the same time. That time where the Sports Carousel was the most listened to on Sunday afternoons and there were stadiums as mythical as Las Gaunas.
The old stadium of Las Gaunas
The old stadium located in Logroño, It was the home of CD Logroñés, that mythical team that stood up in the First Division at the end of the 80 and part of the 90 and that unfortunately, disappeared in 2009 playing that yes, already in the new stadium of Las Gaunas. A stadium that saw the greats of Spain go by there who had a bad time due to the size of the stadium and the state of the lawn there.
With capacity for 15.000 spectators, more than half of them standing, Las Gaunas it was one of those fields that exuded a special football atmosphere, lost with the passing of the years and with the arrival of modern football. Some greats of the moment passed through that stadium who beat the copper on its lawn, many times muddy.
That CD Logroñés of that time had in its ranks players like Julen Lopetegui Y Oleg Salenko who attended the USA World Cup 94 as players of the Riojan team. The Russian was even the top scorer of that World Cup event after scoring him 5 goals to Cameroon in one of the World Cup history records. Other players like Quique Setién, Tato Abbey and even Rubén Sosa, they wore that t-shirt that was staged by the old Gaunas. One of those missing stadiums in Spain that have already been remembered.
And it is that after 78 years of history, the stadium of Las Gaunas The old one closed its doors forever and was later demolished and made way for the new stadium where today the teams that took the baton from CD Logroñés play their games. Among them the UD Logroñés, which was the first team of Logroño after the disappearance of the original team, to reach the Second Division.
