Roma’s General Counsel Lorenzo Vitali confident new stadium gets done on time | OneFootball

Roma’s General Counsel Lorenzo Vitali spoke about the club’s long-awaited new stadium.

During the Social Football Summit at the Stadio Olimpico, Vitali – who appeared with Roma sporting director Florent Ghisolfi – gave reporters an update about the stadium in Pietralata.

“I have been involved in this project since day 1. We have always been side by side with the municipality. I can tell you that from the mayor’s general manager to the designers, they have all been very supportive of this project,” said Vitali.

“We absolutely must take advantage of this opportunity for the commitment and the fantastic work they are doing. We must take into account the expectations of this project. There is no new stadium in Italy that is at the point of ours with Roma. I am talking about things built from scratch.”

“Obviously it is complicated with an ambitious project like ours. We are working day after day and we know that we will turn it around soon because the final project has been submitted to the municipality.”

“We are at the end of a very difficult bureaucratic process. The stadium is the result of private design sessions. We have carried them out with our architects. It will be something monumental and Roman. If you were to build it in another city it would not work.”

“We are proud of the project and the support we have received. We are ready to do our part. It will be the private building built in Italy since the Second World War.”

“We will continue 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It will be a park, the largest Curva Sud in the world and it will be wonderful. The acoustics will be improved and we are working on many fronts.”

“With the Friedkins the stadium will become a reality,” he assured.