The Madrid City Council has given fifteen business days to the Rayo Vallecano Foundation to solve the security problems that the Ciudad Deportiva has, where the quarry teams and the majority of the Vallecano club teams train every day. Some works that, if not corrected, the council “will initiate the corresponding sanctions”, as indicated by the delegate councilor for Sports, Sonia Cea, after a question from Más Madrid during the commission.
And the words of Mar Barberán, from Más Madrid, were very harsh: “The deterioration is so brutal that it becomes unsafe for athletes.” And that is why they have requested to know the measures that the City Council was applying to “guarantee that the conditions of the Ciudad Deportiva del Rayo are optimal and, above all, safe.”
An award from the City Council to Rayo
Barberán herself explained that the plot was awarded in 2006 to the Rayo Vallecano Foundation and it was not until June 2010 when the Ciudad Deportiva opened its doors for the first time. A concession means that the club has to assume responsibility for maintaining the facility in optimal conditions for its proper functioning, conservation, safety and cleanliness. Although “nothing could be further from the truth,” he said before continuing with his explanation.
Mar Barberán assures that “the dirt is little more than permanent” in a space “in a painful state”, with accesses full of “holes or even filled in in an almost improvised way, which may be more dangerous because you can put your foot in a hole or take out one of those fillings. For this reason, the councilor of Más Madrid has asked for the contract to be terminated if the Foundation does not guarantee security on these soccer fields.
