Basque language irakurri: Getafeko zelaiak “Coliseum Alfonso Perez” izena izateari utziko dio, jokalariaren areadierazpen batzuengatik

He Getafe City Council (Madrid) and the Getafe They agreed this Wednesday rename the city stadiumthat goes from being called “Coliseum Alfonso Pérez” to just “Coliseum”after some statements made by former soccer player Alfonso Pérez: “The municipal stadium of the city of Getafe, transferred to Getafe for a period of 40 years, will be renamed solely ‘Coliseum’, following the statements of Alfonso Pérez, a native of Getafe and Olympic champion with the Spanish team,” indicates the Consistory.

The City Council recalls that Alfonso Pérez, a former soccer player, among other teams, for Real Madrid, Betis, FC Barcelona and Olympique de Marseille, as well as an international with the Spanish national team, pointed out a few days ago, in an interview with “El Mundo “, “the impossibility of a female player earning the same as her male teammatestransferring the idea of ​​football as mere economic businessrather praise aspects as important in sport as improvement, effort or equalityand minimizing the social achievements obtained by the current world champions on and off the playing fields.

Both institutions “agree on the need to preserve the positive values ​​that emanate from sport, which are promoted in the city through sports schools.”

In the same context, the City Council points out that “the majority of Getafe fans have expressed themselves”, and that “it is important to remember that, in accordance with the terms of the concession, Getafe reserves the possibility of including an advertising sponsorship alongside the name Coliseum, as is already happening in the rest of the teams around the world.

Source: Eitb

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