Estadio Azteca Tickets

Estadio Azteca is a fabled football stadium in Mexico City – a place that has seen some of the most unforgettable FIFA World Cup moments in its grounds. The stadium is popularly known as Azteca and is one of the best places in the world to gather fans for a beautiful game like football because after all, this is the only stadium that has played host to two FIFA World Cup Finals. Azteca is also one of the loudest football stadiums and presents a sight with the air filled with deafening, high-pitch cheers and shrieks. The stadium is notorious for some harsh conditions like altitude and smog but is thrilling nonetheless. Estadio Azteca tickets have been popular in the entertainment circles since a long time and it’s a popularity that never ceases to exist.  
 
Azteca was built in 1966 for the 1968 Olympic Games and the 1970 FIFA World Cup. It was a quick undertaking for the time but turned out to be an over-the-top facility; a three-tiered, cavernous place that could seat nearly 115,000 people. The architectural design for Estadio Azteca was given by Pedro Ramirez Vasquez along with Rafael Mijares and took almost four years to reach the construction stage. The magnificent construction shows Mexico’s extreme love and devotion for the game and there are also a number of interesting facts associated with the construction of the stadium.
 
Opponent teams have to face a daunting task when they have to play against Mexico at Estadio Azteca. Estadio Azteca is a lucky place for Mexico’s national team – an impregnable fortress - as the team saw it’s only time of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup on Azteca’s field. It was in 2001 and Mexico lost to Costa Rica after an unbeaten streak.
 
The stadium holds in its heart some of the most exhilarating and eternal FIFA World Cup moments that the event has seen in its last four decades. Diego Maradona is known to score the “Goal of the Century” and the “Hand of God goal” on the manicured grounds of Azteca in 1986; the great football giant Pele played for the last time on the very grounds in 1970 and it was the same place when Italy defeated Germany, making it the “Game of the Century” in 1970.  
 
The lush grass of this vintage North American gem of a stadium has and will hold memorable events, keeping Estadio Azteca tickets a valuable commodity. The stadium is also known as “The Colossus of Saint Ursula due to its impressive size. Apart from being a football hosting giant, Estadio Azteca has also served as the venue to host some world famous concerts. This include the 5 sold out shows for Michael Jackson on his Dangerous World Tour, U2 giving its most attended performance on 360° Tour and Paul McCartney in as recently as in 2012. Fans have some lovely moments to remember the place by like being in awe at the sight of confetti coming down from everywhere at the final whistle of a game.