Estadio Centenario Stadium in Montevideo was born when FIFA
assigned the first World Cup football championship to Uruguay.
An adequate venue was missing to host this important event. The
Uruguayan delegation was engaged in the building of a gigantic
stadium that could hold 100,000 spectators. The entire
tournament had to be played in this stadium! Works had to start
right away. Within a year the tournament would start! The
stadium was designed by architects Juan Antonio Scasso and José
Domato. The initial project consisted of four sectors built in
an elliptical shape. If followed a strict geometrical order and
was designed to include an athletics track. The different
sectors were characterized by a geometrical continuity and by an
equal distance to the centre of the playing field. However, it
turned out impossible to complete the stadium with three levels
of tiers. Therefore, the initial project was modified and the
third ring was remodelled. It got built on one sector of the
stadium only. Base areas with sta