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{{Infobox stadium
| name = Morenão
| fullname = Estádio Universitário Pedro Pedrossian
| image = Estádio Pedro Pedrossian por dentro, Campo Grande, junho de 2015.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| image_caption = '''[[Ministry of Sports (Brazil)|Sisbrace]]''' {{rating|3|5}}
| location = [[Campo Grande]], [[Brazil]]
| coordinates =
| broke_ground =
| closed =
| opened = March 7, 1971
| demolished =
| dimensions = 110m x 70m
| surface = Grass
| owner = [[Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul]]
| tenants = [[Esporte Clube Comercial (MS)|Comercial]]<br />[[Operário Futebol Clube (MS)|Operário]]
| seating_capacity = 45,000
}}
'''Morenão''', also known as '''Estádio Universitário Pedro Pedrossian''', is the home ground of [[Operário Futebol Clube (MS)|Operário]] and [[Esporte Clube Comercial (MS)|Esporte Clube Comercial]]. It is located at Cidade Universitária ("University City", in [[English language|English]]), in [[Campo Grande]], [[Mato Grosso do Sul]], [[Brazil]].
==Information and history==
The stadium is owned by [[Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul]] ("Mato Grosso do Sul Federal University", in English), also known as UFMS.
Morenão was inaugurated on March 7, 1971. The first stadium match was [[Clube de Regatas do Flamengo|Flamengo]] against [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]], won by the former by 3–1. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Buião, of Flamengo.
The stadium was named after the veteran Brazilian-Armenian politician [[Pedro Pedrossian]].
The stadium has a capacity of 45,000 people.<ref name="templosdofutebol">{{cite web | title = Morenão | url=http://mavalem.sites.uol.com.br/ms/CampoGrande1.htm | accessdate = 2009-01-02 | language = Portuguese | publisher=Templos do Futebol }}</ref>
==Trivia==
*The stadium is nicknamed Morenão in reference to Campo Grande city, which is known as Cidade Morena ("Brown City", in English) because of the reddish color of its soil.
*The biggest stadium attendance was 38,122 people, set on February 23, 1978, when [[Operário Futebol Clube (MS)|Operário]] beat [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]] 2–0.
==Brazil national football team==
{| class="wikitable"  style="text-align:left; width:75%;"
|-
!Date
!Time ([[Time in Brazil#Brasília official time - BRT (UTC-04)|UTC–4]])
!Team #1
!Res.
!Team #2
!Round
!Attendance
|-
|14 October 2009||18:00||{{fb|BRA}} ||style="text-align:center;"|0–0||{{fb|VEN}} ||[[2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification]]||style="text-align:center;"| 23,746
|-
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
*''Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro'', Volume 2 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.
==External links==
*[http://mavalem.sites.uol.com.br/ms/CampoGrande1.htm Morenão at Templos do Futebol]
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