Fifteen players from Cd. Vicálvaro were also allegedly scammed by the same organizer who left the fifty-seven Lanzarote residents who intended to go to the Donosti Cup stranded. Apparently, the 15 players from the club and 3 members of the technical staff paid both the registration for the "Lanzarote Cup" tournament and the plane tickets and accommodation on the island.
According to Carlos Legazpi, the Club's coach, to La Voz, "when we arrived at the airport, at the very moment of boarding the plane, we found out that there was no reservation at the hotel." "I called the organizer from the airport but he wouldn't answer the phone, so I contacted the hotel we were going to, and the hotel confirmed that the reservation had been canceled two weeks ago, Legazpi explains.
"We tried, since we were already boarding, to have them accommodate us, but they told us that the island was at one hundred percent capacity and it was impossible." "I was left with fifteen fifteen-year-old boys without accommodation on the island, so I decided to disembark, cancel the plane tickets and go to the National Police at the airport to report the events," the coach says.
"We have filed the complaint jointly with the parents, children and coaches, as our lawyer has advised us, and the losses amount to about 7000 euros," Carlos Legazpi concludes.
