"We want to see the construction site of the new Cagliari stadium open by 2025". Categorical, the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi, in Cagliari for a series of useful meetings to plan the major sporting events for 2025, but also to give a boost to the work for the new Cagliari stadium, the new sports palace and some other works related to sports facilities.
Abodi met with journalists at the headquarters of the regional Tourism department, with him the councilor Cuccureddu, the president of Federtennis Binaghi and the regional number one of Coni Perra. "I have been hearing about the stadium for ten years - the minister underlined - and therefore it would be essential to find a method of collaboration between the State and the Region . Not only on the very large facilities, let's be clear. I hope that this will be the decisive year for the stadium, the commitment of all the players in the field, starting with president Giulini, I hope is important. I have directly followed the issue of the sports hall, it seems to me that there is financial support and I am also here to meet the mayor, in order to also understand the situation of small facilities and school gyms".
The minister is meeting with the president of the Region Todde , the topic will be mainly that of the stadium, as well as that of sports tourism, addressed together with Cuccureddu and on which the Region is banking a lot but with a new regulation of the financing of sports events. Tomorrow morning the face to face with the mayor Zedda and the sports councilor Macciotta.
"I thank Minister Andrea Abodi for accepting our invitation to participate in an operational meeting on the planning of major sporting events - says the regional councilor for Tourism Franco Cuccureddu - we must share the candidacy of Italy, and Sardinia in particular, to host some world-class competitions" . Again: "The period appears particularly complex in light of the constraints dictated by the community provisions on state aid to which is added the aggressive determination of some countries, in particular those of the Persian Gulf, to grab the most prestigious international sporting events" .
Among the events in “danger” there would be the World Rally Championship, for which the United Arab Emirates would have offered a sum five times higher than that assigned by the Region . «With Minister Andrea Abodi we have agreed – concludes Franco Cuccureddu – to examine in depth the issue of state aid and to hypothesize a joint planning, of three-year scope, of the major events that we are applying to host in Sardinia».
