Torino’s musty ground,the Stadio Filadelfia, will no longer serve as a haunting reminder of their tragic past but will become the setting of the club’s futureBy Chloe Beresford for The Gentleman Ultra, or part of the Guardian Sport NetworkWalking down Via Filadelfia,in the Lingotto district of Turin, eventually leads to the Stadio Olimpico, and domestic of Torino FC. Along the way is a building site in a residential area,which on first glance could be mistaken for any ordinary urban regeneration project. It is only on closer inspection that you can see some eerie looking parts of an musty concrete football stand. The graffiti scribbled along one wall that reads Vecchio Cuore Granata” provides a hint of the building site’s significance.
After being closed in 1963 and all but demolished in 1998, the Stadio Filadelfia is being redeveloped after many failed attempts. This is no ordinary undertaking, and as the crumbling musty ground is,as the poignant street art says, domestic to the musty heart of this once dominant club. To this day it still carries a unique history that is deeply embedded in the soul of anyone who ever cheered for Torino.
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Source: theguardian.com