This January, the Tourism Councilor of the Gran Canaria Council, Carlos Álamo, expressed confidence that the island will host the 2030 World Cup in 2024, "this is what I ask for Reyes, they will surely grant it to us." Álamo has highlighted that he has made it clear that Gran Canaria meets "all the necessary conditions of connectivity and accommodation, health security and public order, and the appropriate infrastructure and equipment, in addition to an extraordinary complementary offer, which has to do with with its cultural heritage, its values, its traditions and its gastronomy".
Álamo met in Maspalomas with the president of the Higher Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, for the LaLiga FC Futures International Tournament held in Maspalomas in the last days of last December in order to explain the social and sporting potential that it will generate on the island. the chose.
Álamo, thus, expressed his satisfaction with the recent celebration of the LaLiga youth championship, which has been consolidated in the south of the island as a base thanks to the Sunflor chain and the José Ramón de la Morena Foundation, the LaLiga FC International Tournament Futures, which has crowned the best U12 team in the world, to reaffirm its "calm and confidence" transmitted from the central government through the Higher Sports Council in Maspalomas. "The LaLiga Futures event itself highlights the capillarity of Gran Canaria's candidacy," said the island's Tourism Minister.
Álamo recalled that last November the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), through its president, Pedro Rocha, and the members of its technical team, have classified the candidacy as solvent, which responds to the needs and the criteria established by FIFA.
"We have full confidence that a serious project has been established, and the very act of promoting grassroots sport from the south of Gran Canaria, with all the most important clubs, is part of that rigorous effort to make it possible for us to host the World Cup. 2030," said Álamo, who recalled the unanimity of social, economic and institutional agents of the islands in favor of the project.
Álamo recalled that in the Budget of the Cabildo there is already an item for the financing of the project and the technical direction, and the commitment of the Government of Gran Canaria to undertake with its own resources the works necessary to expand, remodel and adapt the stadium to the needs that demands to be headquarters.
