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The 'Stadio Giuseppe Meazza', also known as the 'San Siro', is a football stadium in Milan,Italy. It is the home stadium for two major Italian Football League teams: A.C. Milan and Internazionale and is the most famous soccer stadium of the entire world. For some years it was the world biggest stadium.
The stadium construction started in 1925 in the Milanese district of San Siro, which gave its original name. The idea to build a stadium in the same district of the horse racing track, belongs to the man who then was the president of A.C. Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a stadium only for soccer (there is no athletics track in it). The inauguration was on 19 September, 1926 as 35,000 spectators saw Inter defeat A.C. Milan 6-3. Actually, during the first years the stadium was property of A.C. Milan and only A.C. Milan played its home matches there. Then in the early 1930s the Commune of Milan bought the stadium and this allowed the stadium itself to be renovated. Internazionale started to play its home matches in the San Siro stadium only in 1947. In 1980 it was officially renamed as "Giuseppe Meazza" in the honor of an Inter player of the 1930s who died that year, but it is still familiarly called "San Siro" by almost everyone.
 A view of the San Siro from a nearby street. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1435 KB)A picture taken from the street leading up to the San Siro in Milan from December 2004. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1435 KB)A picture taken from the street leading up to the San Siro in Milan from December 2004. ...
Renovations
- 1939 (55,000)
- 1947 (150,000 - world biggest stadium)
- 1955 (reduced to 100,000 for public order troubles)
- 1987, as a preparation for the 1990 World Cup the Italian government gave the Milanese council $30 million for its modernization, but in the end, the cost was more than double that. Project 1990 by Ragazzi e Hoffner e Salvi: 11 concrete towers of 50 meters high. Top roof at 60 meters
- 1990 (88.500 all-seats)
- 2002 Sky Box: 20 for 200 seats. 400 all-seats for journalists.
- 2003 85,700 all-seats
The 1990 Football World Cup was held in Italy. ...
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The metre, symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ...
September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ...
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