Arrivederci, Saint Siro: Goodbye to one of the big temples of the football

Milan will say goodbye to Saint Siro, one of the big temples of the football that during decades has starred moments for the memory. Inter And AC Milan have arrived to an agreement for demoler the stadium built in 1926 and, like this, can build during the next years some new installations chords to the needs of the moment, so much in sustainability as in modernity.

The president 'rossoneri', Paolo Scaroni, and the delegate 'nerazzurri', Alessandro Antonello, have explained in the last days that the two clubs that share the stadium will build the new installations to little distance of the original, with the hope that this new stadium can be finishing before the start of the Olympic games of Winter of 2026, that will contest in Italian earths.

The "new " Saint Siro" will situate therefore in the same area of granting that the current, and will have a capacity for around 60.000 viewers. In spite of this, Paolo Scaroni has recognised that it will be "a very complicated process". For now there is not a concrete register of dates neither of immediate movement, but the planning already has set up and confirms the last rumours on the destination of Saint Siro.

The world of the football will sack in the next years, therefore, to an iconic stadium that has been headquarters of innumerable important moments. In 1934 it was one of the headquarters of the World-wide of Italy, housing split of quarter-finals and semifinals. In the World-wide of 1990 went back to receive diverse parties, so much of phase of groups as of eighth and quarter-finals.

Saint Siro, a stadium with international focus

The same sucedió in the phase of groups of the Eurocopa of 1980, although if by something stood out regarding visibility was by his history in the Champions League. The Real Madrid erigió champion there in the final of 2016, bending in the batch of penaltis to the Athletic of Madrid. The whites also had topped in Saint Siro 15 years before, in 2001, in front of Valencia.

The Inter of Milan won the Glass of Europe in his stadium in 1965, and the Feyenoord raised the 'orejona' there five years later, in 1970. A stage for the history, in definite, that of here to some years will follow living magic moments but with another skeleton. The first aim, in the short term, is that it was one of the big attractions of the Olympic games of Winter of 2026. If it attains or no, it will depend on the planning.