Elguinaguaria, swan's nest (stage II) This is how the Avendaño Porrúa Stadium was created (II) On February 24, 1965, Diario de Las Palmas publishes, on page 14, a news item with the headline: "THE CIVIL GOVERNOR ...
Elguinaguaria, swan's nest (stage II)
This is how the Avendaño Porrúa Stadium was created (II)
On February 24, 1965, Diario de Las Palmas publishes, on page 14, a news item with the headline: "THE CIVIL GOVERNOR RECEIVED A REPRESENTATIVE COMMISSION FROM THE SPORTS CLUBS OF THE ISLAND." The subtitle said "THE URGENT NEED THAT ARRECIFE HAS FOR A SPORTS COMPLEX WAS DISCUSSED." The chronicle, signed by Aureliano Montero Gabarrón, says "The Civil Governor of the Province, Mr. Antonio Avendaño Porrúa, received last Saturday in the office of the Government Delegation a representative commission of the different sports clubs existing on the island, composed of Mr. Aureliano Montero Gabarrón, Mr. Agustín Hernández Corujo, Mr. Tomás López Monzón and Mr. Ginés Pérez Curbelo. The Government Delegate, Mayor of Arrecife, President of the Island Council and the Delegate of the Youth Organization were present."
"The urgent need that Arrecife has to have a sports complex was discussed. Sports concerns in Lanzarote are constantly increasing. We have in Arrecife five regional soccer clubs, three youth clubs and seven children's clubs; in Basketball a tournament is currently being held with the participation of twelve teams. We can say the same about different sports. And all this without a court or game center. A sad and unfortunate contradiction, which does not respond to the desire of our young people and which the people of Lanzarote justly demand. This anomalous situation that we suffer will be aggravated in the coming weeks with the disappearance of the only playing field, a land, in terrible conditions, but which has been providing service for years thanks to the generosity of its owners who gave it kindly and selflessly. The fans are saddened by this circumstance. More than five hundred young people who total the different sports clubs in Arrecife beg for an urgent and prompt solution. Because the progress of Lanzarote is palpable in industrial order, education, road improvements, in short, and without leaving aside the chapter of beaches and tourism, but what about sports? The Spanish State does not skimp on means to promote sports. Lanzarote, therefore, claims this right from whoever it may concern.
Mr. Avendaño Porrúa received all the information with attention, carefully studying the possible location of the sports complex, which, we are assured, will begin immediately. For the moment, the chronicler limits himself to advancing the news and we hope that in the coming days we can give it more fully once it has official confirmation."
The commission, made up as I said by Ginés Pérez, referee, Agustín Hernández, from Club El Carmen (Club Deportivo Lanzarote), Tomás López, president of C.D. Lomo, Aureliano Montero Gabarrón, sports chronicler of Eco de Canarias, and Agustín Acosta, Delegate of Sports in Lanzarote, later met with the then National Delegate of Physical Education and Sports, José Antonio Elola Olaso. This is confirmed in the photograph that you can see on the Internet at http://www.webdelanzarote.com/futbol8.jpg. According to Román, he was also in the delegation but, because of his own things, he did not enter the meeting. By the way, Tomás López does not appear in the photo. I asked Román Cabrera and he doesn't know the reason.
In the minutes of the ordinary session of the plenary session of the Cabildo de Lanzarote of March 10, 1965, it is stated that "after reading the Motion of the Most Excellent Mr. President, in which he proposes the adoption of the appropriate agreements, in order to build an island sports complex, on land owned by the Cabildo, with facilities appropriate to the importance of the island of Lanzarote, and in which all kinds of sports activities will be accommodated, which will benefit the culture and education of the people, and which will bring great benefits to island development."
The Plenary, after extensive deliberation, agrees, unanimously, to such a proposal, "for the purposes to which it is dedicated, and adopted the following agreements:?". The agreements were being fulfilled. For two years, other agreements were adopted and fulfilled until, in the ordinary session of the Plenary of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, held on April 12, 1967, account is given of certification number nine of the "Insular Sports Complex", for an amount of 192,472.59 pesetas, "which is made effective against the allocations of the respective extraordinary Budget, charging the National Delegation of Physical Education and Sports, five percent of the same against the subsidy that was granted by said Organization.".
