Roma has announced its new stadium in Pietralata

A.S. Roma has opened a new chapter in the already very long history concerning its sports facility with a joint note with the City Council, making official the project for the stadium that will be built in the Pietralata area. Setting aside James Pallotta's old dream of building his own stadium in Tor di Valle, the new management led by Dan Friedkin has chosen the eastern quadrant of the Capitoline city as the new home for the Giallorossi.An area that can be reached from Tiburtina station and the two adjacent metro stops, Monti Tiburtini and Quintiliani, and by private mobility via the Tangenziale Est, the urban section of the Roma-L'Aquila highway and the recently widened Tiburtina. A major investment, which will reach 500 million euros, and will change the morphology of the area. 

In the 800 hectares optioned by the Giallorossi club, in fact, in addition to the new stadium, two bicycle and pedestrian bridges, stores and green areas will be built to make the area livable even on days without matches. What is now a city-owned area abandoned to neglect and degradation should see the rise of a facility capable of holding 55,000 to 60,000 spectators, with a hotel, restaurant and shopping center inside so as to extend the experience beyond the canonical 90 minutes of play. A desire also reiterated by Massimiliano Umberti, president of Rome's IV Municipio, who specified in a radio interview how "we must not consider the stadium as only the place for a game. But it will be a City Stadium, open 7 days a week. There will also be spaces for socializing. It will generate work, so many people will be employed both from a construction point of view, but not only." 

Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri said he was confident in a quick and smooth process, which historically mark every major Roman project. "We have worked with great intensity and great reserve, our policy has been first facts, then announcements. Now we are waiting for Roma to present its project, which we will evaluate. We have carefully verified that there are no contraindications or problems that prevent the construction of a stadium in Pietralata, so it is possible to proceed on the basis of the Stadiums Law." The stadium is expected to be ready by 2026, in time to celebrate the Giallorossi team's 100th anniversary the following season, but Roma fans are used to not getting carried away by enthusiasm.