The cult of San Siro. Before his fate, his origins are discovered

Demolish or not the Meazza stadium? Rude against Sala, Inter and Milan united. Architectural-sentimental investigation on the current public debate. The disguised Nerazzurri faith of Gianni Brera, Jannacci a Milanist against Gaber an Interist. The story of a symbol

Save the San Siro? Rocco Commisso, the Italian-American president of Fiorentina, pointed out with Anglo-Saxon pragmatism that Wembley stadium, a monument of English football inaugurated in 1923, venue for the 1966 World Cup final and five Champions Cup finals as well as the temple of the Albion national team, was demolished without much fuss twenty years ago to make way for a new and very modern plant. Different mentality, no Alterswert, “old value”, coined by the art historian Alois Riegl in The Modern Cult of Monuments (1903), a value that appeals to everyone, from art connoisseurs to the masses. It is none other than the “bond of memory” invoked by the belligerent new undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi against the junta of Beppe Sala. It is useless to further discuss the financial mechanisms that claim ownership of the stadium by global football clubs, liquid even if rather lacking in liquidity, scattered between America and Asia, rather it is better to consider the architecture of the existing stadium which gives its name to an entire neighborhood.