ROME (AP) " Roma's long-delayed plans to build a new stadium met with more opposition from the city council's urban planning expert on Thursday. Berdini's pronouncement comes in the same week that Roma released a university study saying the stadium would deliver nearly 20 billion euros ($21.7 billion) in additional revenues to the Italian capital over the next decade. The proposed stadium site in Tor di Valle is about halfway between downtown and Leonardo Da Vinci Airport. James Pallotta, Roma's American president, first presented the stadium plan in March 2014, saying then that it would be ready for the 2016-17 season. With a design inspired by the Colosseum, the stadium is slated to seat 52,500 and be expandable to 60,000 for major matches.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 17, 2016 21:05 UTC