Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis has described the club’s Stadio Diego Armando Maradona as a dump. He recently said that the stadium is in urgent need of replacement, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the old football ground was already bad when Ancelotti coached the Napoli team in 2018, and over the years, it has just kept deteriorating.
Aurelio added that the authorities should do better when it comes to developing football stadiums across Italy.
His words, “We can only get up to three million in that Maradona dump. That’s quite a difference, isn’t it?
I said the same thing when [Carlo] Ancelotti arrived [in 2018]. Paris Saint-Germain pay the same rent for their stadium as we do, but they have full exclusivity and make 100 million euros a year, while we only have access for three days: before, during and after the match.
It’s an old stadium, with an athletics track and even a moat that pushes fans further away.
Authorities here are football’s biggest enemies. They don’t realise there are 25 million potential voters who care about this sport.
We need more flexibility. Let clubs build or convert stadiums with integrated housing projects. Those revenues can sustain long-term investment.”
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