Unión Deportiva Las Palmas started this summer to develop a Canarian agenda in the US through San Antonio de Texas, a city founded by the islanders during the time of King Felipe V, led by the advisor of UD Las Rafael Méndez is already clapping. The yellow idea of the plan to develop institutional diplomacy through culture and sports patronage.
The move made by UD Las Palmas coincides with that made in May by Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, who announced that starting from the 25-26 season there will be official matches in the United States. With this news, UD Las Palmas announces the presence of a new department in its organizational chart:
international expansion. What happened in Texas was a first step in the United States where there was a historical presence of the islanders but with the focus on developing a medium-term strategy.
So far, the Canary Islands club, which already has agreements with China, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the United Kingdom, among other scenarios, has expressed to the Texan authorities their desire to find collaboration formulas with this city in the United States, founded in 1718 by families who emigrated from the Canary Islands.
Canarias has a commercial office in San Antonio de Texas and the capacity to root to unite the authorities The North Americans with UD Las Palmas are mainly the product of the Canarian doctor Alfonso Chiscano, who died a few years ago, a Canarian hero of the unity between the two areas and has a street in the capital of Las Palms. Chiscano has been the director of BBVA Compass in Texas and is one of the most influential Americans of Spanish origin in the White House.
The general director of the entity, Patricio Viñayo; the head of International Expansion, Carlota Aparici; and the project director of the UD Las Palmas Foundation, Francisco Diazmet for this purpose with councilors from the Texan City Council.
San Antonio Councilor Manny Peláez, who manages relations with Spanish cities and entities; the City Council’s director of Protocol and Diplomacy, Sherry Dowlatshani; International Relations specialist Tanzila Kaiumova expressed their desire to make the initiatives they address a reality at their meeting, the club added.
In the US, contrary to popular belief, there are more Hispanics in Texas than in Florida. Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, announced last spring that “it will be played abroad. I think it will be in two seasons: at 25-26 this is a goal I set“said the executive born in Badajoz in the statements to Expansión. And he insisted that the initiative will “strengthen” the position of the main Spanish tournament “in the North American market.”
Source: La Verdad
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