The IES de Costa Teguise Pavilion continues to give headaches to parents and sports clubs. The latest to raise their voices has been the CD Chinijos de Costa Teguise, a handball club created a year ago and which has players ranging from 6 to 13 years old.
This weekend CD Chinijos had planned a training camp and to play a series of friendly matches with Puerto del Carmen, in the Benjamin and Alevín categories, but finally they will have to do it on the street.
"We had spoken with the sports technician of the Teguise Town Hall and I made the request by mail", says Gonzalo Pérez, director of the club. "The Town Hall facilitated everything, they sent us a concierge to open and close and we made sure that the pavilion was the same as when we entered, they communicated it to the IES management and they gave the go-ahead, but 4 hours later they tell us that the institute's management has denied access because it is CD Chinijos and me who requested it", explained the director.
Gonzalo is clear about the origin of this change of opinion and why it has been denied despite having accepted it first. "Tired of the Town Hall not being able to solve the problems they had with the IES management to allow clubs and the AMPA to use the pavilion, I organized a rally in front of the center and that did not please the management who have done everything possible to put obstacles to the clubs and the AMPA, with whom they also have problems", he tells us.
The Teguise Town Hall has offered alternatives to the Costa Teguise club to play these training matches but they do not want to go to Teguise or Tahíche because "we want to be known and attract more children in the town", he tells us. The matches will finally be played on a public court near the Infant and Primary Education School from 10:30 a.m. to approximately 1 p.m., where about 40 children will meet but "without benches, service, security or anything", adds the director in the Polideportivo program, on Radio Lanzarote.
The few matches in the Island Games of Sports Promotion make them look for alternatives to play when they do not have matches and they want to do it in Costa Teguise. "We want people to know what we do and for more children to come and play handball, which is what we like and it makes us sad that after a year of work everything is obstacles, while the institute's pavilion, in two years, has practically not been used, preventing us from doing things", remarks Gonzalo Pérez.
