Milan president Paolo Scaroni recently commented on the club’s future plans for a new stadium after presenting their urban development project to the local town council of San Donato Milanese. He stressed on the significance of erecting new venues, citing things can’t work out as they did for the 1990 FIFA World Cup with the renovations of existing stadiums.
Speaking to Rai Sport (via SassuoloNews), Scaroni urged for the development of new state-of-the-art stadiums in Italy.
“Italy needs new stadiums, it is no longer enough to renovate existing stadiums as we did for Italia ’90. It is enough to go abroad to see that problems are not solved in this way.”
The Vicenza-born executive took examples of foreign investments to improve the quality of infrastructure in Italy.
“It’s true that not all clubs can intervene and invest, but foreign ownerships are willing to do that in the wake of Juventus, Sassuolo, Bologna, Fiorentina etc. We just have to replicate what was done 20 years ago abroad. There is nothing to invent, but only to act if we want our football to remain at the top in the world.”
Several initiatives have been put forth to improve football infrastructure in the country, but Italian stadiums, are for the most part, relics. However, a shift has been observed, with Cagliari, Fiorentina, Bologna, Roma, Atalanta, and a few other clubs coming up with plans for their own new arenas.
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