Gran Canaria is pressing ahead with its plans to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup maintaining discretion but speeding up the investment package of 80 million euros already allocated. The island has been nominated as one of the most attractive venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup. With modern infrastructure, unique climate, global connectivity and a vibrant football culture, Gran Canaria offers a unique experience for players and fans. For the Minister of Tourism of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Carlos Alamo“the island has everything to be one of the chosen places.”
This February the Insular Sports Institute (IID) was released, by the Cabildo of Gran Canaria competition to adapt the new lighting to the Gran Canaria Stadium, which will cost 1.4 million euros to be implemented in three months. The stadium where UD Las Palmas plays its matches, its capacity will increase to 44,462 spectators.
The Minister of Sports, Aridany Romerostates that “actions are part of a plan to make our island facility one of the best in the country”. The Gran Canaria Stadium will continue to adapt and renew itself with projects that put it at the forefront, “with clear vision of what we want“.
This February The Morocco-Portugal-Spain joint bid committee for the 2030 World Cup met in Madrid with representatives of the three candidate countries, as well as external consultants in various areas involved in the project, with “positive progress and a spirit of cooperation between all parties present.”
The Committee assessed “progress has been achieved satisfactorily and the spirit of cooperation between all interested parties” though still no decisions were made on the number of stadiums, their territorial distribution or the matches that each country will host. The next one The committee meeting is scheduled for March.
In Valencia. The general director of Sports, Luis Cerverarecently confirmed that he is not part of Nuevo Mestalla’s Strategic Territorial Action (ATE) negotiations with Valencia CF and incompatibility rejected in the case after the accusation of the PSPV-PSOE group that they will take to the Conflict of Interest Control Office.
Cervera explained that “my current relationship with Valencia was given by coordination of meetings for the city that will host the 2030 Soccer World Cupwith the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the Valencia City Council and the Football Federation of the Valencian Community.
In Asturias. The general director of Real Oviedo, Agustín Lleidaassured that the blue club has “nothing to do” with the Asturias 2030 candidacy that aims to make El Molinón one of the venues for the World Cup to be held in 2030.
“yeah a meal in Gijón with Sporting and the RFEF and we were invited. Our job as a club is to have a good relationship with everyone. Then no talks or proposals no approach, just noise“explains the general director of Oviedo.
Lleida insisted on clarifying that “now” Oviedo has nothing to do with the Asturias 2030 candidacy and added that, after the aforementioned lunch in Gijón, “there were no approaches or talks” with any of the parties involved.
This is the first public statement in which Real Oviedo distances itself from the candidacy They lead both Real Sporting and the Government of the Principality of Asturias.
Source: La Verdad
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