Barceló pleads for making room in the disused ground floor of Rico Pérez for other clubs and the Department of Sports when the ‘Alicante Arena’ project becomes a reality

ALICANTE. The candidate of PSPV-PSOE to the Mayor of Alicante, Ana Barceloadvocated this Friday that the sports entities of the city and the club itself City hall have spaces in the basement Jose Rico Perez Stadiumonce the project materializes ‘Alicante Arena’. “El Rico Pérez is a symbol and a reference space not only for the city of Alicante, but for the entire province. For this reason, the new project of the Valencian government to transform and modernize this facility, it should be expanded to meet the city’s sports needs”, said the socialist mayor about the aforementioned initiative promoted by the president Ximo Puig.

Barceló has proposed that the ground floor of the stadium, which has a surface area of ​​2,500 square metres, could accommodate a centralization office for the administrative management of the Department of Sports. In the same way, that the facilities are the headquarters of the House of Sport, a space where all the sports federations in the city can have management offices, as well as a place where they can hold meetings and celebrate events related to their activity. Also, that spaces be enabled to develop emerging sports, such as table tennis, martial arts, artistic gymnastics and sports gymnastics, archery, chess, badminton, fencing or weightlifting.

The mayor of the PSPV-PSOE participated in a meeting with sports groups from the city, which was also attended by number 4 of the socialist candidacy, edward rodriguezand the general director of the IValencian Institute of Finance, Manuel Illueca, who minutes before had paid a visit precisely to Rico Pérezwhere emergency works will be carried out over the next few weeks (the facility is owned by the council bank) in terms of security and image.

The electoral program of the socialist candidacy for Mayor of Alicante contemplates the construction of a new sports city that will unite the northern area with Villafranquezaoffering land to the University of Alicante to create a sports science campus; boost in the Sangueta and High Performance Center for Nautical and Beach Sportsas well as water sports and beach schools open to schoolchildren from all over the world. spain, thus boosting tourist activity; a crash plan to fine-tune all sports infrastructures; and the rehabilitation of Sports Technification Center of Alicantewith the incorporation of new spaces for adapted sports.