Aurelio De Laurentiis announces important news for the Napoli: the blue club will have a new stadium. And it will not be the current Diego Armando Maradona redeveloped facility, but a completely new project Bagnoli. The Napoli president made some statements to Rai TGR Campania and Sky Sport, explaining the situation regarding the new stadium.
De Laurentiis: “No redevelopment at Maradona: new stadium in Bagnoli”
“I would have really liked to redevelop the Maradona, but the Zavanella studio has been studying a project for a month, they carried out an inspection of the Maradona and the only solution would be to build another stadium inside the Maradona. Unfortunately the curves are very far away, a stadium would have to be rebuilt within a stadium, and it would be necessary to play at least three years outside Naples for safety reasons. So I asked to design a new, very modern stadium and we met with those who deal with the Bagnoli practice. I believe that the mayor of Naples also wants to support this idea of bringing a stadium to Bagnoli, together with a sports center with twelve fields and making social services available to less wealthy people“said Aurelio De Laurentiis.
Ancora De Laurentiis:The timing for the new stadium in Bagnoli? The cleanup already started last October, it still takes 18 months, for my project it will take about 12 months. So we will be able to lay the first brick in 18 months, then in 12 months we hope to be able to build everything, to have a stadium in 30 months to participate in the European Championships in 2032. It’s clear that everyone is in agreement, because Bagnoli finally needs to find a reality for himself. The Bagnoli pitch is large and it won’t just be Napoli coming, there will be a relaunch of the whole city“.
On the bureaucratic steps: “The State is involved here, not just the city. Yesterday we had a first meeting with state representatives and there is great interest. I don’t need other people’s investments, they will all be mine but I want to speed up and “de-bureaucratize”. When I start to hear about the superintendencies… I lose the desire. Unfortunately, those who have entrepreneurial initiatives are annihilated by people who cultivate sweet idleness“.
Finally, De Laurentiis closed his interview like this: “When do you imagine seeing Napoli in the new stadium? I would say that in 2027 we could have a first friendly match to start the training camp that summer. Maybe July 15, 2027, having an extraordinary fireworks party, even by sea, to go to the stadium in 60 thousand. It will be a Hollywood-worthy opening“.
