Luigi Ferraris is a glorious stadium. Full of character, unique and imposing as well as in a great city. A great place to visit if you're ever in Genoa.
I’m a Sampdoria fan and I have season tickets there. The athmosphere is incredible and it has an intimate, passionate setting. The pitch is in horrific conditions, but other than that it’s a unique stadium
Loving the videos man - as a stadium geek and Serie A nostalgist, this was my favourite. Italy really has a certain strange, delapidated style to their stadiums. Maybe worth doing a best-of-the rest Italian stadium video at some point. I love Bari's flower-like concrete monster for example.
@@francesco4302 I'd love to see that unique stadium ("L’astronave" - "the space ship") in one of his videos! Unfortunately, I've never been there, but especially the outside looks incredible!
I have a great love for Italian stadiums because of Italia 90, but it’s strange to see how little has changed for most of those stadiums in the last 30 years. That said, the San Siro is still my all time favourite stadium and if it does get demolished, it will be sadly missed.
It's incredible to think that the San Siro opened only about half a dozen years after the cowshed that was the original Wembley Stadium. It will be an act of cultural vandalism if it is demolished, it should be declared a World Heritage Site. I know the narrator joked about bulldozing The Colosseum, but, for me, demolishing probably the greatest football stadium ever built would be just as great a loss. It's worth saving at any cost.
Bologna's stadium Renato Dall'Ara is actually set to be renewed in the next 3 years, increasing the capacity and with all the seats to be covered, instead of just a section.
yeeh sure. 10 years ago they said: it will be renewed in 3 years. trust me, it will take a long time before seeing actual renovations in italian stadiums.
If you ever go to Naples you will know why Maradona has their stadium named after him. He has shrines all over the city from his time with Napoli and winning a few titles with them.
This is a really great idea! I think the most beautiful and fascinating stadiums are the ones of smaller clubs internationally. DusselfDorf has a GORGEOUS stadium from memory
I went to the San Paolo (Stadio Diego Armando Maradona) in Naples just before the facelift and it was a shithole. No concessions, leaky toilets with literal rivers of urine running across the concourse, and incredibly uncomfortable seats. Hopefully the renovations fixed some of the problems
This video makes me a little sad. While I understand their flaws, I feel like there is real beauty in some of the rounded stadiums in rural Italy. I hope at least some of them are (safely) maintained. Fiorentina's stadium is absolutely gorgeous
Please do a Stadium Video for the Turkish Süper Lig, since it's so diverse. Some clubs literally have brand new stadiums whereas other play in quite run down places, it would be sooo interesting! Or maybe the Austrian Bundesliga
As an Arsenal fan, two of the featured stadiums have been the location for some of the greatest football moments of my life. Stadio Olimpico - Roma 1 Arsenal 3. Henry with a hat-trick and one of the best individual performances I have witnessed. San Siro - Inter 1 Arsenal 5. The most iconic stadium on the planet - the most extraordinary result in my lifetime. Yeah, you can win away at a European giant but not 5-1. The entire evening felt like a dream. I'm going to miss the old girl when she goes.
Have seen a match between Lazio-Sampdoria at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. As tourists we were wondering why everybody brought a match newspaper. To sit on!. There was a lot of seagull crap on the seats 😎
Serie A’s heyday was in the 90s where all the big stars of Europe head to following the Italia ‘90 WC but it’s unfortunate that not many stadiums have been upgraded since, the worst part though is that despite the stadiums all having low capacity, you watch the game and all you see is empty seats…
There was a "moat" (empty concrete deep trench) in the former SAn Paolo when I lived in Naples 1987-1991.. NOt sure if its still there. it was between the "Anello Inferiore" and the athelitc track around the pitch
Amazing that with a league team having a stadium capacity of 7,450 that has space to park 5 coaches next to the pitch they are thinking of knocking the most iconic that has a capacity of 80,000 and is loved by fans the world over.
some of them yes. but mostly they're round because the italian sports federation in the past gave some money if you were going to build a stadium with a athletics track, so to make it "multifunctional".
@@mattiasantangelo9421 Ah that explains the running tracks, i always wondered why so many stadiums had tracks... because the Italian people don´t seem extremely interested in track and fields!
It's in a lovely setting, but Venezia's stadium is really like a very minor non-league semi-professional English football ground in the eighth tier, and a pretty decrepit one at that. It's quite astonishing they will be hosting clubs like Juventus and Inter there next season. But good luck to them, I hope they can stay up.
The Milan Derby in a UCL semi-final at the San Siro , the year before the stadium is demolished. What a fitting ending for such an iconic ground Milanista Last Dance
see Stadio Benite Stirpe of Frosinone Calcio! It's a new stadium and the team played in it in Serie A in 2018/19 (they also played in Serie A in 2015/2016 but the new stadium wasn't complete). The stadium is property of the Team for 45 years.
Many of these stadiums are simply a shame for a premier division in a country where football is the most practiced and followed sport. Who goes to the stadium on a rainy day, is forced to get completely wet or follow the match with an umbrella. Is such a thing possible in 2021?
Suggestion. For these big soccer leagues I think you should do some research and find the stadiums of teams in the lower divisions that have been demoted to those divisions. But historically have spent a lot of time in the top division in their respective countries. Like Shalke in Germany. Their are several cases in several countries where big named clubs with decent sized stadiums have been demoted to lower divisions.
Agreed. One of Italy's best stadiums (Nereo Rocco Stadium in Trieste) hasn't seen Serie A in decades because its home club (Triestina) has always been in 2nd or 3rd division. Edit: also Renzo Barbera Stadium in Palermo is really good, but Palermo currently plays in 3rd division due to financial problems (even though the club played in Serie A for almost 20 years).
So most Italian clubs have antiquated, ugly, and overall bad stadiums that half of them have to share with another club, which is in most cases their rival? Damn.
I am Italian and after seeing this video ,waiting the new stadiums of bologna firenze atalanta and cagliari I can say half are good the others are shit 😅
little titbit about the semi demolished Caligari stadium. In the 1990 World Cup the organisers made England play all their group games there.. to keep England fans off the mainland !
Most rectangular stadiums are bland and boring. That being said, the Florence stadium was actually build as an hommage to Mussolini; his nickname was Il Duce, and if you look closely, you will notice the shape of the building is a giant"D". De for Duce.
truth about italian stadiums: gewiss stadium will not be finished, new stadiums will not be built. old stadiums will remain the same forever. in italy it's impossible to build something.
Same in Belgium. Club Brugge is trying to build a new stadium since 2009 because theirs is too small and just dangerous to be in but they can't even find a ground to build it on.
Most of Italy's stadiums were build and upgraded during Italian footballs boom in the late 80s and early 90s and have not been upgraded since. Take that with the decline of Italian football post 2011 and you get allot of run down stadiums
As a Roma fan I still find it sickening that we have to share with those actual Mussolini loving nazis, Lazio. Can’t wait for the new stadio. They can have the decrepit pile.