Gran Canaria has the support of UD Las Palmas to host the 2030 World Cup

The venues of the 2030 World Cup are beginning to prepare their candidacies. The idea was first launched by Lucas Bravo de Lagunapresident of the political group United for Gran Canaria, to put Gran Canaria on the FIFA map and quickly began to have the support of the island’s economic and institutional agents.

This Tuesday, UD Las Palmas decided to join the support due to the imminent arrival of Luis Rubiales on the island of Gran Canaria for various meetings and press conferences where important announcements in this matter are expected. Thus, the club led by Miguel Ángel Ramírez said that “its full support for the formalization of the candidacy of the island of Gran Canaria as the venue for the 2030 World Cup, which is likely to host Spain and Portugal ”.

For the Sports Union, this is also a good opportunity as it will see the Gran Canaria Stadium modernized, increasing capacity to 40,000 peopleand includes more than the possible expansion of the Nascent tier to accommodate the Earth, as well as its surroundings: “A initial endowment of 35 million euros for the improvement of sports facilities. Gran Canaria Stadium can take advantage of the economic injection to tackle tasks to increase capacity to 40,000 seats, and the updating and improvement of services and facilities that will make attendance more comfortable for spectators, ” said the insular statement.

To this end, the institution is also “getting committed to complete the project for the second phase of the sports city of Barranco Seco in the coming years, with all the first-class services and facilities that participating teams may need without leaving the capital city ”as part of the modernization of Gran Canaria to host the 2030 World Cup.