Ramón Jesurún, president of the Colombian Football Federation, stopped by Sin Anestesia de La Luciérnaga de Caracol Radio and Red+ to talk about current issues surrounding the National Team. One of those was the always questioned venue for the Qualifying matches, which is still Barranquilla, but fans from other cities also cheer to see the national team.
When the manager was asked about the Atlantic capital as a headquarters, he commented: “You cannot be unfair to Barranquilla. Barranquilla is a full, friendly city, historically dedicated to the National Team. We have achieved the great qualifications for the World Cups there, we have had a couple of setbacks in those classifications.”
“Barranquilla has the largest stadium in the country, a capacity of 47 thousand people and not necessarily the economic part, but the largest audience of Colombians can see their National Team. Physiologically, it is clear and conclusive that the best place to play is Barranquilla, the experts, the doctors, the technicians say it, but you talk to the players, the star players of the National Team and they all say, ‘don’t change us from Barranquilla ‘”, he added.
The questioning of Bogotá
For his part, when asked about the construction of new stadiums, specific to the teams and not public as they are at the moment, for which the clubs pay rent, except for Deportivo Cali, he commented that those are not economical at all. leases.
“The stadiums belong to the state and we pay rent for them. To open El Campín, it is worth 70-80 million for Millonarios, if the team is doing well, you fill the stadium and if they lost 2-3 games, you have to pay the same money and you receive 3-4 thousand people,” he indicated.
Likewise, he questioned the public-private alliance that was announced in 2023 for the remodeling of the sports scene. The stadium will go from a capacity of 35,000 to 45,000 and will be fully completed by the end of 2028, as will the sports complex that is planned to be consolidated.
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“The Campin is a depreciated stadium, because it was built 60-70 years ago and little has been done to it and they are with a PPP (public-private alliance) supposedly for 45 thousand people, that makes me laugh! 45 thousand people the new one El Campin stadium! So never ask for the Colombian National Team, it cannot be that the capital of the republic has such a small stadium when Lima has 4 stadiums with 60 thousand people.”
The last time Bogotá hosted a Colombia National Team Qualifiers match was on the road to South Africa 2010. In the next three qualifiers, for Brazil (2014), Russia (2018) and Qatar 2022), the chosen one was Barranquilla and, For now it will continue to be, since the coach, Néstor Lorenzo, “loves it,” according to Jesurún himself.
2024-03-15 00:04:54
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