Governor Jorge Capitanich inaugurated this Tuesday important sports infrastructure works at the Regional Resistance Club, which will make it possible -among several things- for his soccer team to play home in the Chaco League that begins in April. “Sport builds social values that have to do with dedication, discipline, effort, humility, camaraderie and solidarity,” remarked the president after fitting out the new facilities at the club where more than 500 boys, girls, adolescents and young people.
The work, which required a total investment of $ 31,468,656, comprises a grandstand of more than 1,200 square meters with two transmission booths and a box with a removable canvas cover. In addition, the governor enabled the new sanitary modules and changing rooms m. To all this is added a first aid room, canteen, multipurpose room, warehouses and administrative office.
“The governments had a great debt with the club that lost its building infrastructure when the property where the Northeast National University is installed was expropriated,” said Capitanich in his speech after indicating that today, after 87 years of existence of Regional, carries out “an act of historical reparation.”
However, he emphasized what it means for Chaco families to face the payment of a monthly fee for a club, which is the main source of financing that sports institutions have. Along these lines, he indicated that the State has the main source of financing for sports infrastructure, which is the Chaqueña Lottery, an institution that had minimal profitability in 2007, a reality that was reversed by eradicating clandestine gambling and managing resources correctly.
Thus, he highlighted the importance of having a progressive, universal-based minimum income that guarantees access for all to the practice of some sport. “We are convinced that a club is not worth its infrastructure, but is worth its people,” said Capitanich, ensuring that clubs change the lives of thousands of Chaco and Chaco.
He recalled that with the Chaco Soccer League the State has the commitment to build a site with seven soccer fields for the lower divisions at the Resistencia Autodrome, and that said infrastructure will be completed by this quarter.
The Minister of Planning, Economy and Infrastructure, Santiago Pons Pérez; the president of the Sports Institute, Osvaldo Pérez Cuevas; the president of the Regional club, Alfredo González; the president of Lotería Chaqueña, Gabriel Lemos; and the mayor of Resistencia, Gustavo Martínez, as well as athletes, residents of the community, and numerous fans who longed for this day.
Visibly moved, President Alfredo González assured that a new and different stage for the institution begins this Tuesday. “Before we did not have a building structure to take care of, the games were over, we went out, put a padlock on the gate and we left,” he graphically.
He thanked the provincial government for accompanying the club, “whenever we knock on the doors of the provincial state institutions we receive responses to the needs of the club and its people,” he remarked, and also valued the sponsorship of private companies through the Law of Sponsorship.