Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)

	Capacity		85,700
	Opened		September 19th 1926

The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, more commonly called the Stadio San Siro, is a football stadium in Milan, Italy. It is the home stadium for two of the three most successful Italian Football League teams: A.C. Milan and Internazionale, and one of the most famous soccer stadia in the world. Although it has been officially renamed in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the Inter and Milan player of the 1930s and 1940s, it is still commonly called the San Siro. With the spectators being so close to the pitch, the stands being so steep and with a large roof, it is considered to have one of the best atmospheres of any stadium in the world.

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 football (there is no athletics track in it). The inauguration was on 19 September 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw Inter defeat Milan 6-3. Actually, the stadium was property of A.C. Milan and only Milan. Milan played its home matches there. Then Inter Played home game there with AC Milan.

The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $60m being spent, bringing the stadium up to standard. As part of the renovations, the stadium became all seated, with an extra tier being added to 3 sides of the stadium. This entailed the building of 11 concrete towers around the outside of the stadium. Four of these concrete towers located at the corner support a new roof which has distinctive protruding red girders.

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