ミラノ市長、サン・シーロの夏前の売却目指す

【ミラノＡＦＰ＝時事】サッカーイタリア・セリエＡのインテルとＡＣミランが本拠地として使用しているサン・シーロについて、同スタジアムを所有するミラノ市の市長が４日、夏前に両クラブに売却したいと発言した。これにより、一帯に新スタジアムを建設する両チームの計画にも追い風が吹いている。（写真は資料写真）
　ミラノのジュゼッペ・サラ市長は地元ラジオで、両クラブから購入の申し出を含む正式な実現可能性調査の報告書を受け取り、それを市議会に提出して承認を求める予定だと明かした。市長は「夏休みが始まるまでにスタジアムとその周辺地域を売却することが目標だ」と述べている。
　インテルとミランは、現在のサン・シーロの近代化を求めて共同プロジェクトを発足。手続きが難航して２０２３年に計画はいったん頓挫したが、昨年１０月に再開した。
　新計画では、サン・シーロの解体は部分的にとどめ、緑地や各種スポーツ、エンターテイメント施設を新たにつくるという。また、最初に新スタジアムを現在のスタジアムのすぐ西側の駐車場と公園がある場所に建設する予定で、以前は収容人数６万人の見込みだったが、今回は７万人以上に増加する。
　前回との大きな違いは、インテルとミランが市が保有している土地を借りるのではなく、購入する点。作業開始は、現在のスタジアムで来年のミラノ・コルティナダンペッツォ冬季五輪の開会式が行われた後になるという。
　クラブと市長が売買を急いでいる背景には、今年末までに公有地のままであればスタジアムの保護命令が自動的に発効し、２階部分の解体ができなくなることがある。
　一方で市議会では、自分たちを無視して市長がプロジェクトを強行しようとしていることへの怒りの声も上がっており、関係者によれば、土地の売却に関する投票がどちらに転ぶかは分からないという。
　ファンも新スタジアムへの移転でチケットの値段がさらに上がることを懸念している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/03/05-16:41）

Inter Milan and AC Milan's bid to to get a new stadium built on the site of the San Siro was boosted on Tuesday after the mayor of Milan said he hoped to sell the iconic old ground to the Serie A clubs before the summer.
Speaking to radio station RTL 102.5, Giuseppe Sala said that he was hoping to receive on Tuesday a formal feasibility study, including a purchase offer, from the two clubs which he would then pass to Milan's city council.
The aim is to sell the stadium and the area surrounding it by the start of the summer holidays, said Sala.
Giants of European football, Inter and Milan have long desired to replace the current San Siro with a modern area, and in October relaunched a joint project which was abandoned in 2023 after it spent over three years winding its way through the bureaucratic and political corridors.
A new feasibility study for the project, which was originally priced at 1.3 billion euros, will be revised to include only a partial demolition of the city-owned San Siro, the site of which would be used for green space and a range of sports facilities and entertainment venues.
Before any demolition happens a new stadium, which in the previous project was planned to have a capacity of 60,000 but this time has reportedly been increased to over 70,000, would be built in the area to the immediate west of the current ground which is occupied by car parking and a local park.
The key difference this time round is that Inter and Milan would purchase rather than rent that land, with work to begin not before next year's Winter Olympics for which the current San Siro will host the opening ceremony.
It will take a few years, and when the new stadium is ready the clubs will renovate the old stadium, which in my opinion will stay in place as it is now until 2030, added Sala.
- Political unease -
It is important for the clubs and Sala that the San Siro and surrounding land is sold soon as if it is still in public hands by the end of this year, a building protection order preventing the demolition of the current stadium's second tier will automatically come into effect.
However there has been unease from Milan city councillors across the political spectrum, with anger at what they see as a bypassing of local democracy as Sala tries to force through the project in order not to become the mayor who allowed two of the world's biggest football clubs leave the city.
In 2023, in the wake of the previous project being abandoned, AC Milan acquired land in the nearby town of San Donato Milanese for 40 million euros while Inter looked at sites in Rozzano and Assago, also to the south of the city.
If the clubs moved elsewhere it would be politically costly for Sala's centre-left administration but also leave Italy's economic capital with a huge unused stadium on its outskirts, which would no longer bring in seven million euros in annual rent and would have to be either repurposed or knocked down.
Fans meanwhile have expressed concern that a new stadium would lead to further increases in ticket prices and high-end hospitality areas replacing seats for regular supporters who regularly number more than 70,000 for both teams' home matches.