Brescia has to deal with the public’s falling out of love with them, also demonstrated by the small crowd present on the steps of the Rigamonti. In fact, over the last weekend there was a very significant piece of data that underlines this disconnect between the team and the place. In fact, 4,082 spectators were present at the stadium for the heavy defeat against Sassuolo, while 4,591 were present at PalaLeonessa to watch Brescia’s basketball victory against Sassari.
As he points out Bresciaoggi on newsstands these are alarming figures for the president’s team Massimo Cellino given that Germani overtook Brescia not only in the percentage of capacity of the stadium (the PalaLeonessa holds a maximum of 5200 people, the Rigamonti reaches almost 16500), but also in the number of total spectators with a collapse in last month despite the team of Rolando Maran is in full swing for the Serie B playoffs.
A worrying fact, largely due – as we read in the newspaper – to the conditions of Rigamonti which is in worrying conditions and appears decrepit even in the presence of nearby stadiums such as the Zini in Cremona and the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo. “In Brescia a lot has been done for sport in recent years: the new PalaLeonessa for basketball, the athletics track named after the great discus thrower Gabre Gabric (1914-2015) in Sanpolino. And in 2026, again in Sanpolino, the indoor track for athletics and the new Olympic center for artistic gymnastics will be ready, which will be added to the already existing Palalgeco in via Petrarca, a factory of talents who have brought Olympic medals. (…) Football not only doesn’t interest anyone but it annoys. There is an attitude of opposition that is unnatural and there would be no shortage of entrepreneurs from Brescia with more than sufficient means to guarantee that leap in quality that has always been awaited”.