He is considering giving up his place in Preferential because of the costs involved and the little support he gets to prioritize the talent of a quarry with about 500 children
Cartagena FC is seriously considering not taking out a senior team next season and focusing on youth work with the nearly 500 children making up the base. The directive, whose visible head is Leo Gómez, has this decision quite on track due to the cost of maintaining the first team without “social mass” and “support” from sufficiently strong sponsorship. The entity of the sports city of Gómez Meseguer has at least until August to change its mind.
Cartagena FC’s senior team dropped from Tercera to Preferente a few weeks ago, the sixth step in Spanish football. The club made a serious project to stay without problems, with coach Juanjo Brau at the helm of the bench. “We did a very good first lap, but in the second everything went wrong and we couldn’t change the direction,” he explains to LA VERDAD. In that transition, the side lost its goalscorer, Miguel Ángel Ballesta, who returned to the Mar Menor in January after scoring seven goals.
In a group of eighteen teams, four were sentenced to direct relegation, Bala Azul was dragged down by the decline of Águilas and La Minera saved the furniture thanks to the promotion from FC Cartagena B to Segunda RFEF. Cartagena FC returned to Preferent in this way for just three years after moving up to the Third Division with Juan Moreno Boluda. The high costs of maintaining the senior team, the lack of sufficiently strong sponsors and the lack of social mass, Leo Gómez tells this newspaper to meditate on this decision that is already “more or less on schedule” and decided.
The board advocates focusing on the talented base it always had. Currently, twenty-five teams and nearly five hundred children pass through the facilities of the sports city of Gómez Meseguer every day. Renewal and strengthening of that basis are now a priority. Juvenil A dropped out of the Eredivisie and that dragged the National League with it, which also takes positions to lose the category in the field.
This FC Cartagena celebrated its centenary in 2018, although the Association of Friends of the History of Football of Cartagena (CAHFCT) believes that this club, the historic Efesé, disappeared in 1952. And which is the current heir to UD Cartagena and was renamed Cartagena FC in the 1970s.
Source: La Verdad
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