Asturian sport feels “offended” by the Principality’s measures: “Why can you go to the cinema and not to a game?”

Among all those affected, the Llanera de futbol case is one of the most special, since this modification ends the hopes they had of being able to have public on the most important day in its history. The club, which competes in the Asturian Third Division group, will play the Copa del Rey on Thursday (9pm) against Celta de Vigo, a First Division team. The match will be played at the Carlos Tartiere, with a capacity close to 30,000 spectators. Its president, Miguel López Cedrón, acknowledges that they had “illusions” that things could be redirected and assures that yesterday was “a disappointment and another blow”.

“We do not understand that people are allowed to enter closed venues and the public cannot be brought into the Tartiere, which is open; at most, we could take a thousand people, “he explains, adding that it seems like a” grievance “:” I would understand that everything was closed and no one could do anything, but letting people enter in closed places and not in open places is something that I can’t explain myself, ”he says. The president of Llanera also warns of the damage that is being done: “The humble clubs are going to have a terrible time, we have been two months without any income, this is very hard.” And, in their case, the issue of children also affects them: “We have 300 children and it is not only an economic issue, it is that I have a son and he comes home and goes to the sofa; we are leading them to a sedentary life and to playing video games ”. To conclude, he regrets not being able to have a gesture on Thursday with the people who continue to support them: “We wanted the members who continue to get their cards even though they cannot go to the field to watch the games and the children of the club go to the Tartiere for free to see his team against a Primera. It’s very sad ”, he concludes.

In the case of Antonio Corripio, president of the Covadonga Group, he is grateful for the goodwill and intention of the Principality, but regrets that there is a lot of “ignorance” in the regulations they dictate. “It is a pity that they have not asked the opinion of those of us who know the reality of sport better“, Add. In their case, they have almost 40,000 members, more than 3,000 federated athletes and almost 9,500 children who used to play sports there. “In Asturias we have the highest rate of obesity in children in all of Spain and now they are not allowed to do sport; These measures are excessively restrictive, they leave them without sports on vacation. How do you explain it? The normal thing is that there is an abandonment of sports practice ”, continues Corripio, who also questions what message is being sent when“ you can go to drink and buy tobacco, but not to play sports ”.

Héctor Galán, general director of Liberbank Oviedo Baloncesto, does not explain it to him either: “I don’t understand what the criteria are for allowing people to go to the theater, which I think is very good, but not allowing public in sports facilities. Are we not also a company? My fans also have the right to go see the show they like? Nacho Galán, coach of the Círculo Gijón, expresses himself in a similar line, for whom all these measures are “incomprehensible”: “Other venues smaller than the Palace can accommodate the public, such as theaters and cinemas, and we cannot; we don’t understand it ”. For him what they are doing is like “allowing a bar to open, but not allowing people to consume.”

To Diego Baeza, president of Avilés, with one of the most expensive templates of ThirdAll this seems “absurd” to him: “At the Suárez Puerta we can not keep two meters apart, but up to five meters,” he says. Baeza sums up in one word what all sport in the region suffers: “Uncertainty.”