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Baladed Stadium, Vigo
Spanish newspaper even speaks of “manipulation” of the points. Federation ensures that it was just a “technical decision”.
O World Cup 2030 of football will be held in six countries. One of them is Portugal, another is Spain – Where suspicion on Two stadiums.
It is not closed yet, but the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has an initial list of 11 stadiums, 11 proposals. The two stages in question are the Municipal Stadium Balados and Aneta Reale Arenarespectively houses do Celta de Vigo e Real Sociedad.
After evaluation to the stadiums, in the first list the Vigo’s stadium was the 11th classified; that is, the last on the list that would be presented to FIFA. It had 10,2004 points, little more than the Real Sociedad enclosure (10,1226 points), the best positioned of excluded stadiums.
But, just two days later, the document was changed. It was “manipulated”according to: O Anoeta started to have 10,6026 points And so it surpassed the stadium of Celtic – who was left out.
An essential point for this last -minute change was the part of the “Technical Project”, more concretely the “level of intervention that it will be necessary to perform ”.
The evaluation to the stadiums was made based on the criteria that a FIFA Used for the 2027 Women’s World Cup.
That is, Celta de Vigo’s stadium was guaranteed on the RFEF list (there are emails that prove it), but the second list-and end-excluded headquarters in Galicia. And very close to Portugal, say.
Abel Caballero, mayor of Vigo, asks the Federation to explain what happened: “All I ask is that they tell us that data sustains the exclusion of Vigo. That say it and make it public. If it is such obvious data, nothing will happen, let’s just see them and ready. ”
Rafael Louzán, president of RFEF, refuses to reveal data because The Federation is not obliged to thisit is not a public entity. Says only the change was made by a “Technical decision, in which more than 20 people worked ”.
Federation sources later explained to El Mundo: “Some objective criteria have been tunedaccording to the rules of FIFA. ”It was a technical change, reinforce, because the Real Sociedad Stadium does not need works. Priority for “sustainability criteria,” they add.
