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Soberanía National Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Nacional Soberanía) is located in Managua, Nicaragua.It has a capacity of 15,000. [2] The stadium was built in 2017 as the Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez, named after former Major League Baseball player Dennis Martínez, as a replacement for Managua's previous Estadio Nacional (built in 1948)
The Nicaragua national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de Nicaragua) is the national baseball team of Nicaragua. Considered the best in Central America along with Panama , it represents Nicaragua in international tournaments.
Professional baseball was re-established in Nicaragua starting with the 2004–05 season. Indios del Bóer reached the LBPN championship series for the first time in the 2006–07 season, where they swept Leones de León in four games to win their fourth league championship and the first one in the new era of professional baseball in Nicaragua.
Baseball is the national game of Nicaragua, and is one of the most popular sports in the country. [1] Nicaragua has a professional baseball league, the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League, consisting of five teams, playing in the winter, and a semiprofessional league, the Germán Pomares Championship, playing in spring and summer.
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: Antigua and Barbuda: 10,000 44 Estadio Universitario Juan Abrantes: Cuba: 10,000 45 Mártires de Barbados Stadium: Cuba: 10,000 46 Ergilio Hato Stadium: Curaçao: 10,000 47 Estadio Carlos Salazar Hijo: Guatemala: 10,000 48 Ato Boldon Stadium: Trinidad and Tobago: 10,000 49 Larry Gomes Stadium: Trinidad and Tobago ...
The national Football stadium is sometimes confused with the old National Stadium, Estadio Dennis Martinez in central Managua. That stadium was built in 1948, primarily as a baseball stadium. And it was in fact a stadium used by the national team before the construction of the current stadium.
Nicaragua lost both of its games to Colombia and Panama. The national baseball park in Managua (Nicaragua's capital city), Dennis Martínez National Stadium, was named in his honor in 1998. However, Martínez's criticism of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega saw the government change the stadium's name in 2022.
The Dennis Martínez National Stadium has served as a venue for both baseball and football. The first ever national football-only stadium in Managua, the Nicaragua National Football Stadium, was completed in 2011. [295] Nicaragua's national basketball team had some recent success as it won the silver medal at the 2017 Central American Games. [296]