Stadio Giuseppe Grezar

• FIDAL Friuli Venezia Giulia (since 2013)

• Games of the U.S. Triestina (1932-1994)
• Football World Cup 1934

The Stadio Giuseppe Grezar is a building under reconstruction football stadium with track and field facility in the Italian city of Trieste in the eponymous province of Friuli- Venezia Giulia region. From 1932 to 1994, the stadium was the home ground of U.S. Triestina. Subsequently, the club moved to the Stadio Nereo Rocco, that is in the immediate neighborhood.

Since 1967, the sports venue is named after the former soccer player Giuseppe Grezar; who was one of 18 players of Torino, and of the 31 victims in the plane crash of Superga on May 4, In 1949 died. In 2005 it was closed; currently it is completely rebuilt.

History

The inauguration of the stadium with 25,000 seats formerly took place on 29 September 1932. On the second matchday of Serie A Triestina received Napoli and they parted with a 2-2 draw. At that time, under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, it was named Stadio Littorio. The venue was built as one of eight stadiums for the World Cup 1934. The Giuseppe Grezar is the only stadium in the world championship in 1934; in which the Italian national football team has played no international game until today. After the end of the dictatorship in Italy, they named the stadium in 1943 in Stadio di Valmaura, according to the district of the city of Trieste to.

In addition to playing the U.S. Triestina found over time some U -21 (1971, 1983) and U- 23 and B- Caps (1934, 1955, 1968), the Italian place in the stadium. For two European matches Juventus and AC Milan took advantage of the Giuseppe Grezar. On November 13, 1963 Juve hit the OFK Belgrade in the decision making game of the first round in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Turin won 1-0 and moved into the next round. Eight years later, on September 29, 1971 met the AC Milan and Akritas Morphou Digenis from Cyprus to each other in the second leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup. After a 4-0 in the first leg of the AC won the return leg 3-0. The attendance record was set D between the U.S. Triestina and the ASD Ponziana in the game of the series on December 1, 1974. The city attracted 20,360 spectators duel in the stadium; who saw a 0-1 victory Ponziana. After moving to the Stadio Nereo Rocco, the fortress served as training ground and for athletics.

The plant is completely renovated since 2005 and was equipped with an eight-lane athletic track of international standard. The cost was estimated at 13.5 million euros. The construction work should despite delays in January 2010, the contractors are Scarcia & Rossi went into bankruptcy, be completely finished by mid-2012 the end of 2011. Then the sports complex offers a total of about 6,200 seats; of which 2,500 are located on the covered grandstand. The field of natural grass is the dimensions of 100 x 60 meters have. This allows football matches as well as the throwing competitions of athletics. The stadium gets six changing rooms. In addition to the four crew cabins, the other two spaces are provided for coaches and referees. Furthermore, facilities for athletics judges, medical treatments and anti- doping tests, and an electronic scoreboard and a sound system will be available. The track and field facility receives modern technology for the determination of times and distances.

The planned opening date in mid-2012 could not be maintained. In the spring of 2013, the sporting facilities of the stadium could after a meeting of the city of Trieste with FIDAL Friuli Venezia Giulia, a regional committee of the Italian Athletics Federation FIDAL be released. The stands and interiors as Unkleidekabinen should be completed later in the year. With a parade of 24 clubs and more than 200 athletes and the symbolic cutting of the ribbon, the inauguration was celebrated.

In November 2013, Guido Germano Pettarin, the chairman of the FIDAL Friuli Venezia Giulia, about the catastrophic state of the stadium complained. Since the inauguration of the sports facilities rests the continued construction. The stands are still without seats. The offices of the FIDAL Friuli Venezia Giulia and the changing rooms are housed in temporary restorations. With the holey mesh fence boar came to the site and rumpled it. It is thought of an extract of the Association, as the Grezar is not fully usable in its condition.

Football World Cup 1934

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