National Stadium of the PNF

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Stadio Nazionale del Partito Nazionale Fascista
The Stadio Nazionale del PNF in Rome
The Stadio Nazionale del PNF in Rome
Data
place ItalyItaly Rome , Italy
Coordinates 41 ° 55 '36.8 "  N , 12 ° 28' 20.2"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 55 '36.8 "  N , 12 ° 28' 20.2"  E
start of building 1927
opening 1927
demolition 1957
surface Natural grass
architect Marcello Piacentini
capacity 47,300 seats
playing area 110 × 65 m
Events
Goalkeeper Giampiero Combi , referee Ivan Eklind and František Plánička , also goalkeeper, (from left) before the final of the 1934 World Cup in the Stadio del PNF

The Stadio Nazionale del PNF was a football stadium with an athletics facility in the Italian capital Rome in the province of the same name in the Lazio region . In addition, the stadium in the south curve had a swimming pool measuring 50 × 18 meters. It bore the name of the fascist party Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF for short) founded by Benito Mussolini . It was u. a. Final venue of the 1934 World Cup .

history

The stadium was built in 1927 on Via Flaminia and replaced the first Stadio Nazionale from 1911. The sports facility designed by Mussolini's main architect Marcello Piacentini with over 30,000 seats and a four-lane running track (there were five lanes on the home straight) had the shape of an elongated one Horseshoe . As is often seen in Italian stadiums, the stadium only had a roof on the main stand. One of the first events in the stadium was the World Student Games in 1927 , the forerunner of the later Universiade . The football club Lazio Rome played its home games from 1931 in the Stadio del PNF. The AS Roma followed the Lazio 1940th

For the UCI track world championships in 1932 and the UCI road world championships in 1932 , a 400 m wooden racing track designed by the German racing cyclist and architect Clemens Schürmann was built in the stadium . After three years, the railway with the nickname Pista magica was dismantled again. It was given a new home in the Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli in Milan and was destroyed by aerial bombs during the Second World War in autumn 1943.

On October 14, 1932, Italy was awarded the contract for the second soccer world championship in 1934. The fascists used the world championship tournament as propaganda for their own purposes. There were allegations of bribery because of dubious referee decisions in favor of the Italian team. Unlike the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay with three stadiums in the capital, Montevideo , the tournament was held in eight stadiums across the country. The Stadio Nazionale del PNF was renovated and expanded for the World Cup . For this purpose, the area of ​​the spectator seats in the north curve was extended to the pitch level. A grandstand was built in the south curve between the playing field and the swimming pool. The stadium held around 55,000 spectators for the World Cup.

After the dictatorial rule of Mussolini in 1943, the stadium was only called Stadio Nazionale . In May 1949, the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (CONI) gave the sports facility the name Stadio Torino in memory of the victims of the Superga plane crash . Among the 31 dead were 18 players from the AC Turin football team , known as Grande Torino , which dominated Italy in the 1940s . Officially, the stadium continued to be called Stadio Nazionale .

After the Stadio dei Centomila , later the Olympic Stadium in Rome , was inaugurated in 1953 and the resulting relocation of the two Roman football clubs AS and Lazio , the old Stadio Nazionale was closed . In July 1957 the facility was demolished and construction of the Stadio Flaminio , which opened in 1959, began immediately afterwards.

Football World Cup 1934

Round of 16

Semifinals

final

Web links

Commons : Stadio Nazionale del PNF  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ laziowiki.org: picture of the construction of the stadium from 1911 (Italian)
  2. ↑ woz.ch: Azzurri in black - Football and Fascism: the Calcio was invented under Mussolini article of 15 June 2006
  3. ↑ laziowiki.org: picture of the memorial plaque (Italian)