 juan ramÃ³n loubriel stadium (spanish: estadio juan ramÃ³n loubriel) is a soccer-specific stadium located in bayamÃ³n, puerto rico. it is best known as the home of the bayamon fc of the liga nacional de fÃºtbol de puerto rico. the stadium can seat up to 22,000 people, and has easy access the metro station (known as "deportivo station"). ==history== created in 1973 as a baseball stadium with a capacity of 12,500, it was home to the "vaqueros de bayamÃ³n" up until 2003 when the team became defunct. in 2003 with the vaqueros folding, the stadium seemed doomed to be relegated to a youth stadium or to demolition, but late that same year the stadium was reborn and was to be home for another professional club. however, this time it would be as an association football stadium. it had been chosen by the puerto rico islanders as their new home. its "l" shaped stands were not suited for the sport and it originally had an awkward feel to it since the stand behind the goal angles away from the pitch. this has led most of the fans to prefer to sit in the part of the stands that run parallel to the pitch. was home to bayamon fc, a professional football team in the puerto rico soccer league now playing in the bayamon soccer complex, and sevilla bayamon fc, now called sevilla-fc juncos, they moved to juncos. it has also played host to the cfu club championship group c in 2006, where the islanders played but lost to trinidad and tobago, w connection 0-1 and the puerto rico mls-usl challenge in 2007, and two 2010 world cup qualifying matches against the dominican republic and honduras. ==events== the first boxing bout between alfredo escalera and alexis argÃ¼ello d
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