The New Canaries (NC) candidate for Mayor of San Bartolomé, Pablo Yebra, has this week demanded that the municipal government try to “humanize sports activity through decent facilities in the municipality."
“More and more citizens, athletes and sports clubs are sending us their complaints about the state of some of the sports facilities in San Bartolomé. They not only convey their discomfort at the lack of existing sports infrastructure, but also at the mediocre resources that many of them have and demand, above all, that the more than improvable maintenance to which the City Council subjects these facilities be optimized,” explains the Canarian candidate in San Bartolomé, Pablo Yebra.
From the Local Committee of NC in this municipality they state that at present “we can find facilities with leaks, potholes and very lacking in maintenance in general, in which our sons and daughters are going to enjoy the sport they like but sometimes in chaotic circumstances.” Likewise, Pablo Yebra warns that the facilities for Canarian wrestling in San Bartolomé are in similar circumstances. “The infrastructures for our vernacular sport leave much to be desired in the municipality, with changing rooms with very little capacity for users, a very unique and not very autochthonous wrestling arena, in which the fighters are very distant from the fans, and with a terrain that even has leaks despite its short age,” laments the Canarian candidate. “You only have to take a walk around the municipal sports hall and see what state it is in,” argues Yebra, who recalls that years ago previous governments also presided over by the PSOE “promised us an Olympic swimming pool in San Bartolomé and Playa Honda and today everything remained in a drawer.”
On the other hand, Pablo Yebra considers that San Bartolomé is one of the municipalities that have been offering a “not very inclusive” sport in which the presence of the king sport, football, especially prevails.” In this sense, despite its high participation and influx of fans, the New Canaries candidate points out, “the facilities used for the different football modalities in San Bartolomé still have a lot to improve, both in infrastructure and in municipal logistics, suffering grievances other sports activities such as basketball, handball, volleyball, certain contact sports and other racket and nautical sports.”
Regarding nautical sports, from Nueva Canarias in San Bartolomé they propose "the recovery of some of the modalities that have disappeared over time. San Bartolomé could promote nautical sports activity in the sports spaces created more recently, where swimming could be implemented, and even have a nautical school and an area for nautical activities in Playa Honda,” says Pablo Yebra, who also proposes that the municipality have “a macro park where different sports modalities and recreation and leisure areas can be developed for the different population centers of San Bartolomé.”
“We must not forget that sport is not just about taking care of our physical health, but also our mind and, above all, generating role models of good behavior and companionship and an option to socialize and adapt to teamwork,” adds Yebra.
