Badalona he’s hungover but he’s still fiesta. the historical Basketball King’s Cup 2023 has left such a trace of pride in the city, considered the ‘cradle’ of national basketball, that the mayor Ruben Guijarro has announced this Thursday, February 23, that “it is already underway” the local candidacy to welcome back the King’s Cup 2026-2027, In addition to requesting the president of the ACB League, Antonio Martin, the entry of the city into the usual circuit of venues that host the Cup.
“We don’t want to have to wait again 38 years to host the Cup”, said Guijarro, who through this new application has highlighted the collective joy for the global projection of the ‘brand Badalona’ through the tournament, summarized in a headline of South Newspaper: “The best Cup in history”, underlined Guijarro.
The president of the Youth (La Penya), Juanan Morales, For his part, he highlighted the celebration of the Cup as a consolidation of the return of the historic team and as inflection point of the conjunction of the club with Badalona as a city. “It had been a long time since I had seen so many people with bfans of La Penya“, Morales has assured.
As for figures to assess “success”, Joaquim Padróscommissioner of the Cup, has highlighted some data on the influx of the tournament in the city from a quantitative point of view.
For example, he has reviewed the influx of 60,000 people to the ‘Fan Zone’ of the Gorg (88,000 people among all the ‘Fan Zones’), or the attendance record of the Mini Cup, 8,630 people, that you have registered a “absolute full” (1,200 people) in the Llefià pavilion.
“We are convinced that we can compete with the big cities when it comes to hosting big events like the Cup”, Guijarro has had an impact with his usual motto of “Positive Badalona”in contrast to the negative image that, in his opinion, the former mayor Albiol transmits around the perception of citizen insecurity.
Plenary hotel and local restaurants
In the anteroom of the tornoe, the hotel sector of Badalona projected full occupancy during the days in which the Copa del Rey. A week after the start of the competition, hotels in the city such as the Marina, Rafael, Miramar or hostels like Badaloní or Solimar they already registered practically all of their reserved rooms.
They even pointed out from the consistory, other hotel complexes in the area, such as the Hotel IBIS of Santa Coloma de Gramenet or the City of Sant Adrià de Sant Adrià de Besòs They also noted substantial increases in bookings for the low season on these dates of the year.
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