lunedì 20 maggio 2013

The Old Appiani


Last saturday I went for a walk in Padua city and I parked my car near Appiani Stadium (the previous pitch of Calcio Padova).
Since my girlfriend has never seen it I thought it might be interesting to show her something of what I believe should be considered one of the monuments in Padua city.
Approaching the stadium we heard a referee whistle from the pitch so I deduced that there must be a football match: Padova youth teams use to play there on saturday afternoons.
We walked for a while through the street near the stadium, we crossed the players and officials entrance and then we arrived at the central stand entrentrance where home supporters used to attend Padova's matches.
Being honest I had never been there, I've only played there once but I've never seen a match from the stands at Appiani but I guarantee that you can see all the historicity of a team like Padova from that ground.
Above the entrance of the spectators there is an inscription, now almost illegible, which was the header of the Municipal Silvio Appiani stadium.



Once inside we went up in the stands, although now there is only the middle one open and the others are pretty much damaged!
Also the nice thing to note is that where there is no grandstand around the field there is something like "terraces" that reminiscent British stadiums very much.



For the record, the game was among Padova Calcio U18 and  US ProMogliano Preganziol U18, a team based in Treviso, set up last year by the merger of two football teams.
I do not know how it turned out in fact we were there only a few minutes but I can guarantee that the level of play was very high and I have enjoyed some great skills in that quarter of an hour.

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