El Roig Arena, president of Mercadona, heated engines after five years of works, stress tests of its facilities and 400 million euros of investment. The promoter of the enclosure, which opens this Saturday with a music concert and calculates that only in the first year it will host more than one million people and will have an impact of 150 million euros in the city “with a medium and long term sustainable management model,” explained the general director of the Pavilion, Víctor Sendra. “Valencia Basket will have absolute priority,” said the general director.
Valencia has a pavilion that aspires to be in the elite worldwide, says the manager. The club has closed the first fertilizer campaign with record figures both in the male fertilizer and in the female fertilizer. The first will begin the season with more than 10,800 subscribers, “a figure never before achieved in our history, and which places Valencia Basket as the Endesa League team with more subscribers according to the figures known so far,” Sendra explained. And the female fertilizer, which will start the course with more than 3,700 subscribers. The union of subscribers between the male and female team results in the social mass of subscribers of a larger club of all Spanish basketball, according to the entity itself.
The sand is based on a public land plot of 21,500 square meters, with an initial concession of use of 50 years, extendable for another 25. Past period, the facilities will revert to the Valencia City Council. , according to the location of the stage, and will exceed 15,000 in the basketball matches of Valencia Basket, also owned by Juan Roig.
Its inauguration, after several stress tests, will be on September 6, with, to which other artists such as Camilo, Manuel Carrasco or Sebastián Yatra will follow during that same month. As Casa del Valencia Basket, the first national competition match that will be played in the Roig Arena will take the Taronja team to receive Barça on Sunday, October 5 at the meeting of the first day of the ACB, two days after the first official match in the new enclosure that will arrive before the Virtus Bologna on Friday, October 3.
