{"id":17156,"date":"2017-03-15T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stadiumguide.com\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:31:36","slug":"stadio-adriatico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stadiumguide.com\/stadio-adriatico\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadio Adriatico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Key facts<\/h3>\n

Club: Pescara Calcio | Opening: 1955 | Capacity: 20,476<\/p>\n

History and description<\/h3>\n

Stadio Adriatico, in full\u00a0Stadio Adriatico Giovanni Cornacchia, opened in 1955. The stadium was built as part of a round of investments for the 1960 Olympics in Rome and hosted a few games during the football tournament.<\/p>\n

Stadio Adriatico\u00a0officially opened on 29 December 1955 with a friendly between Pescara and Como. The stadium could initially hold 10,000 spectators.<\/p>\n

In 1977, a second tier was built on top of the stadium bringing capacity to 40,000, which was reduced again in the late 1980s to 26,000 following safety requirements.\u00a0Smaller refurbishments in the last few years\u00a0have brought capacity down\u00a0to just over 20,000.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Stadio Adriatico, one of the few with an athletics tracks in Italy, regularly hosted athletics events, including the 2009 Mediterranean Games.<\/p>\n

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