“We are going to continue working to have an increasingly inclusive city,” said Mayor Luque.
Comodoro is the venue for the second date of the Patagonian Wheelchair Basketball League. The contest began yesterday and will continue today, Sunday, at School No. 731.
Present on the opening day were Mayor Juan Pablo Luque, Deputy Mayor Othar Macharashvili; the head of the Commodore Sports Entity, Hernán Martínez; and Councilman Omar Lattanzio.
In this framework, the mayor celebrated the completion of the tournament in the city. “Today is a day of immense joy and great emotion for us, who are very involved with sports activity and, particularly, with seeking greater possibilities of inclusion in each of the aspects of Comodoro”, he asserted.
“We have to celebrate this great effort that you have carried out, we have to imitate and be able to copy many of the values and the effort that you make. They are the ones in charge of encouraging each one of us in the State so that we can improve in many aspects”, highlighted Luque and asserted that work will be done on accessibility to public transport as well as on other aspects so that the city is increasingly inclusive. .
Continuing in this line, the communal chief pondered the example that athletes transmit to the rest of society. “I think you are a great example, showing that with effort and overcoming very important goals are achieved, and that is what we try to stay with,” he said.
“This Patagonian meeting unites provinces, unites two brother countries and allows us to be able to copy what you, through sports, do and encourage more and more people with the possibility of carrying out sports disciplines and that no one prevents them from being able to practice the sport they want”, he considered.
Likewise, Luque maintained that work must continue to encourage more and more people to practice some discipline. “As a Comodorense and a Patagonian, I want to tell you that I have a deep pride, a great admiration and I can only tell you to have fun, have a great time and compete,” he asserted.
Continue working
For his part, Martínez stated that sport allows concrete actions to be converted into equality and inclusion and valued the work begun by former mayor Carlos Linares and the continuity of efforts by Juan Pablo Luque. “Here the efforts were continued, but the continuity that Sergio Avallar gave was fundamental because after so much work and so much need, he did not give up and continued working,” he asserted.
“We must also recognize that, at times, the State is far from any reality. But you are there to show us the way and what are the faults that exist in society and that we must work on, ”he considered.
In addition, the head of the Comodoro Sports Entity assured that this municipal management will continue working to make Comodoro a more inclusive city. “Today we play in a gym where they have the possibility of accessibility, but there are many places that do not have it. It is a debt that the sport has and that we are going to work to change them”, he affirmed.
“We are proud of everything they do for sport and we must apologize to them if we are not within reach, but we must stay calm because this management, from Juan Pablo Luque and from whom today is in the Ente Comodoro Deportes, we have put and we will continue putting all the care so that things change and are better and better”, he highlighted.
Meanwhile, Sergio Aballar, a reference for the Club Unión Comodorense, valued the decision of the previous administration to invest in wheelchair basketball and highlighted Juan Pablo Luque’s decision to continue betting on adapted sports so that more and more people can practice some discipline. “With the accompaniment of the Municipality we have been able to carry out this activity that has cost us a lot. It was difficult for all the clubs to come back after the pandemic, but we came back and now we are competing”, he underlined.
He also thanked the teachers for their effort and for having bet on this sport. “They said that it could be done and they did not keep the first no. They found a way for their team to be present in Comodoro and for this sport to continue growing day by day”, he highlighted.
The Comodoro wheelchair basketball team is made up of: Juan Silva, Gonzalo Germillac, Guadalupe Carrara Guzmán, Eduardo Vivier, Jefferson Vargas, and Sergio Aballar. In addition, the local team seeks to surpass its mark from two months ago when it finished runner-up in Ushuaia, in what was the first date of the Patagonian Wheelchair Basketball League.
