Carlos Guisasola Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 27, 2024-12:18

In the stands of the Cibeles Palace, during the celebration of the February Plenary Session, a group of Rayo Vallecano fans awaited point 20 of the session.

And this was none other than the one referring to his team's stadium.

A wrinkled facility in need of urgent surgery, whose future has generated quite a bit of noise at this start of the year.

"They have to commit to the permanence of Rayo in Vallecas," demanded

Rita Maestre

, leader of the opposition, to defend her proposal.

Due to a matter of form, it ended up being rejected with the votes against the Popular Party.

The message from Más Madrid, looking at the stands, was direct: "El Rayo stays."

And Maestre launched his attack towards the Community of Madrid.

"Mrs. Ayuso wants a great ball on the Albufera Avenue grounds. They have to commit to Rayo remaining in Vallecas. We ask it from the clubs, Rayo and all the fans."

"We are going to collaborate so that the stadium stays in Vallecas, but the City Council has no power in this matter," replied

Sonia Cea

, Councilor for Sports of the Consistory.

"There is no project on the part of the Community, no one has seen it. You cannot force a private company to do anything. The ground of the stadium also belongs to the Community of Madrid. The PSOE amendments are subject to the Cubata of manual," he added.

Because the PSOE, like Más Madrid, have been clinging to this train for weeks.

As he said (

Arrigo Sacchi

, some say,

Jorge Valdano

, others say): "Football is the most important thing among the least important things."

Hence it has landed in the Plenary.

"They should have worried about keeping the stadium in its place or about the precariousness of the stadium when it did not pass the ITE. We want that if the CAM does not carry out the maintenance, the City Council will carry it out subsidiarily. We do not want a destroyed Calderón, but a Bernabéu in constant growth," asked the socialist

María Caso

.

There was a round of history about English football from Vox, in the mouth of

Fernando Martínez Vidal

.

A memory of Fulham or Nottingham Forest: "Stadiums are sanctuaries."

And he admitted that the Rayo facility does not meet "modern conditions, it has asbestos and structural problems."

However: "The future of Rayo will have to be decided by Rayo. Neither Mrs. Ayuso nor Mrs. Maestre. The less political interference, the better. Let the partners, the board of directors, the neighbors decide it...".

The fact is that, despite the noise in Cibeles, the matter remained as it was.