AS ROMA NEWS – With Pietralata, the Friedkins instead want to win this never-ending game of the Roma stadium, a challenge that the late Dino Viola began as far back as 1987. But will the Friedkins really succeed in their quest to bring home the great Giallorossi dream?
Two days ago, writes the Gazzetta dello Sport (A. Pugliese), Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri moved the date by another year, talking about “hypothetically” inaugurating the facility in 2028, a year after the club’s centenary, the year in which everyone – club and municipality first and foremost – dreamed instead of playing the first match in the new Giallorossi home. And that hypothesis has almost gone unnoticed, in the sense that – on balance – even inaugurating the facility in 2028 would be an achievement, considering the current situation.
“For the centenary of the club in 2027 is not possible – the words of the mayor of Rome to Un giorno da pecora, on Radio Rai 1 – We are working on the hypothesis of finishing the stadium in 2028. It all depends on the final project that will be presented.” In the meantime, however, costs continue to rise, and by now even the billion-euro wall seems to have been largely knocked down. In its first estimate, the one made at the time of the feasibility study presented more than two years ago (it was Oct. 3, 2022 when then-CEO Pietro Berardi showed up on Capitol Hill with a voluminous orange-colored binder), the costs were around 570 million euros. Then the war in Ukraine and the geopolitical situation internationally produced an increase in living costs, not just raw materials.
Source: Sports Gazette
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