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The last Sunday.

Terra Negra played against Joventut Les Corts B in the Catalan Third Division, the last category of regional futsal.

The match was canceled because it started to rain in Barcelona.

One more hardship in modest sport?

No, not exactly.

Since its creation 10 years ago, Terra Negra has trained and played at the ZAL, a sports center located in the port area of ​​Barcelona and managed by the Port of Barcelona public body.

The place is far from the city and, above all, its access by public transport is difficult and for this reason there were never any problems choosing timetables.

Only one other club competed in the ZAL, Inter Hospitalet, also from the Catalan Third Division, and the Espanyol futsal and basketball sections trained.

For this reason, coexistence was always calm.

Until last December 9.

«They called us from the ZAL and told us that they were going to do works, that we could not return.

We were very surprised, but when the coach went there to look for the material, we confirmed that something very strange was happening," recalls

Guillermo Gutiérrez .

, team captain in conversation with EL MUNDO.

That "very rare" had a name: Kings League, an organizer,

Kosmos

,

Gerard Piqué

's company , and many celebrities behind it,

Ibai Llanos

,

Kun Agüero

, The Grefg or Iker Casillas.

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  • Writing: ABRAHAM P. ROMERO

In the bowels of the Kings League, Piqué's latest invention seen by 800,000 viewers

From one day to the next, the ZAL became the Cupra Arena, the place where Piqué went this Sunday with a Renault Twingo.

From one day to the next, Terra Negra had to find another home and ended up in the courtyard of the IES Consell de Cent, where there is only a changing room and no roof.

If it rains, there is no game.

And the difficult thing about his situation is that the solution is not a matter of money.

“People from the Kings League have contacted us and offered to pay us for a pavilion, but there are no free facilities.

At this point in the season they only offer us training after 11 at night or a third of a track.

They have left us stranded, ”explains González in a complaint that has other echoes.

The sections of Espanyol, affected

Because although Inter Hospitalet found headquarters in a Gavá pavilion 18 kilometers from the ZAL, the Espanyol sections are also wandering around Barcelona in search of places to train.

"There is no possible solution.

We search and search for clues, we call schools, private gyms and there is nothing.

We have had to cancel training sessions or throw out high school patios, cement tracks.

And in our case, the Kings League has not offered us anything, they have not contacted us", comments

Isidre Espiga

, responsible for the sections, which look a certain level.

The men's basketball team, for example, is in the Catalunya Cup, one step away from the EBA League, and on Sunday they lost a crucial game for promotion.

In their case, they do have a fixed track to compete, although the preparation is gibberish.

The Terra Negra issue is more bloody.

"I don't know how we'll end.

Actually this season we are lucky because the first team went down to Third and it was already the only one from the club that played for ZAL.

Other years the first team, the second team and the inclusive futsal team played there. Next year what will happen?

We do not know.

If we go up [they are prominent leaders], in Segunda Catalana we will not be able to play in the institute because the regulations require that there be a ceiling.

Although at least in summer we will have time to organize ourselves, ”denounces Gutiérrez, captain of the Torre Negra, who apparently will have to find another home.

The ZAL, renamed Cupra Arena for the Kings League.

Because the Kings League will end on March 26, but predictably it will not leave the ZAL free.

After all the reforms carried out -installation of artificial grass, multiple screens...-, the women's Queens League should start in May and a "second split of the men's league" has already been announced.

In fact, the competition is working to continue expanding its project and allowing there to be an audience in the ZAL stands.

«Both the ZAL and the Kings League could have done it well, warning in advance, before the start of the season and perhaps we would already have everything resolved.

But they have done everything very badly, "concludes Gutiérrez.

On Sunday, his team, Terra Negra, played against Joventut Les Corts B in the Catalan Third Division, the last division of regional futsal, and the game had to be canceled because it started to rain in Barcelona.

At least he was able to show off the message T-shirt he had made for the occasion: "Don't get splashed by the Kings League."

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