The sad decline of Sant'Elia: the stadium is falling to pieces, only the goal in front of the North stands

Neglected, desolate, sad. Railings eaten away by rust, Mediterranean scrub over a meter and a half high, around the track about ten blades and grown spontaneously. And again: seats (the ones left), covered in dust and now dull colors, in the spaces left free by the grass on the stands.

A ghostly atmosphere hovers inside the Sant'Elia stadium which is literally falling to pieces. While waiting for the conclusion of the process for the construction of the new stadium, the old and glorious Sant'Elia lives, or rather survives , in a limbo, waiting to be demolished to make way for the brand new and super modern facility which (hopefully) will also host the 2032 European Championships.

Sant'Elia is a magical place for Cagliari, for Cagliari and for all the rossoblu fans: one reason above all, because Gigi Riva played here. It is shocking to see the stadium reduced to those conditions: perhaps it is no coincidence that the only goal left on the field, the one with its back to the North, has resisted eight years of abandonment. It is there, in fact, that Pisacane inflated the net for the last time, scoring the last goal (May 2017) at Sant'Elia. Almost a way of saying that history cannot be erased.

The future is a new super modern plant that the rossoblu company and the Municipality of Cagliari have been working on (for years now). 2025 seems to be the right year to close the bureaucratic-administrative game and open the new one. It will depend on when the ok from the Region (Environment Department) arrives: the hope is that the conference of services can give the green light (the Paur) before the summer, so that the Municipality can call for an international tender for the construction of the plant before the end of the year.