Estádio Doutor Hermínio Ometto, usually simply Estádio Hermínio Ometto, is an

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stadium in

Araras Araras () is a municipality located in the interior of State of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 135,506 as of the 2020 IBGE estimate. Etymology Araras means macaws. Sports União São João Esporte Clube, founded in 1981, is the most suc ...

, on the countryside of

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. The stadium holds 21.000 people. It was inaugurated in 1988. The stadium is owned by the

União São João União is the Portuguese word for Union. It may refer to: *the Brazilian federal government *União do Vegetal, a church known for its usage of Hoasca as tea * Brazilian frigate ''União'' (F45), a general-purpose ''Niterói'' class frigate launc ...

. The person who names the Araras stadium was influential in the city. Born in

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, in 1914, he moved due to the purchase of Fazenda São João by his father José, in 1935. Sugar mill Usina São João was created there, which Hermínio took over after José's death. In 1946, he was elected councilor and six years later became mayor. In 1953, he founded the team at S.E.R. Usina São João, the team became professional in the following decade and competed in FPF tournaments between 1961 and 1964. The team was bankrupt in 1981. Five years later, however, the patron Hermínio Ometto ends up dying before the successor,

, obtains great conquests.

Rogério Ceni first goal

It was also at Herminio Ometto that Rogério Ceni went down in history scoring his first free-kick goal of his career, on February 15, 1997, in the

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, against goalkeeper Adinam.

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Rogério Ceni first goal

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