The immediate future of Peñas de Huesca Basketball Club It’s in the air. The historic club from Huesca was evicted from the Peñas Center this Tuesday, facility where their youth teams and also the first team train. The reason: an unpaid debt that, as reported by the The Huesca Newspaper and this media has confirmed, it would be around 37,000 eurosthe equivalent of one year’s income.
The eviction took effect at 12:30 p.m. when A locksmith sent by the property has changed the locks on the premisesin the presence of legal representatives of both parties and a judicial agent. The act has been a hard blow for the club, which just five days before had presented a new “city project” in which they already announced their intention to move headquarters.
In fact, as confirmed by the president himself Fernando Lascorz at a press conference on December 11, The debt recognized by the club was 20,000 eurosalthough several sources raise that figure to 37.000 eurosbacked by a judicial claim.
“We continue negotiating and an agreement is not impossible if they regularize the debt”
From the ownership of the property, it is shown certain openness to a solution if the economic situation is regularized. In statements provided to this medium, one of the property representatives states: “It has been a hard few hours. For now there is no agreement and we have changed the locks. I am sorry for the board, because they are having a hard time. We continue negotiating, and an agreement is not impossible if they regularize the outstanding debt, which is about 37,000 euros. One year’s rent. In that case an extension until June could be accepted. But nothing is certain right now.”
Meanwhile, the club has requested the application of a precarious acta legal figure that would allow the use of the facilities to be maintained provisionally. The board is working against the clock to find a way out that allows provide continuity to the activity of its nearly 400 male and female players who pass by the Peñas Center every day.
Institutions, on alert
The conflict has activated all the alarms in Huesca sports. Local and regional institutions They closely follow the evolution of the caseaware of the impact that losing a key facility like this would have for the city and for the sports fabric, especially for the base.
The pressure is maximum: the season is on and the urgency to find logistical alternatives grows with each passing hour. In parallel, the club also try to plan for the medium termin search of a stability that, today, seems distant.
