Murcia wants to be part of the 2030 World Cup with the Enrique Roca stadium. His candidacy, however, carries political problems that make his election complicated between the venues for the World Cup matches in Spain, which shares the organization with Portugal and Morocco.
The Real Murcia field, with capacity for 31,179 spectators, needs to undertake a important reform to be an applicantwhich means a large economic investment which has caused doubts in the City Council and the Government of the Region when presenting the official request to FIFA.
Without going any further, the Murcian council issued a statement this past Friday in which it insisted on its “firm interest in hosting the world championship”, thus assuming “all the current expenses derived from the international event”, but remembering that ” he Planned spending on investments and expansion of infrastructure may exceed 70 million euros“.
This disbursement, the City Council considers, cannot be assumed by the people of Murcia, but rather “must come from other funding sources, public or privateas happened on the occasion of the 1982 World Cup.” For this reason, the municipal government advocated for the “creation of a state organizing committee, which would be in charge of the search for funds, the coordination of security and the renovation , expansion and/or creation of new infrastructures”.
The Enrique Roca project
The project to reform the Enrique Roca, inaugurated in 2006 as the Nueva Condomina stadium, foresees the increase in capacity to 43,048 seatslifting the top ring and cover, and the installation of a 360-degree video scoreboardas well as a new structure for the new roof, the new stands, the scoreboard and a glass enclosure that allows the sun to enter, as stated in the newspaper The truth.
The Consistory, in addition, also announced in a Press release in which he reported on the preliminary project for reform of the premises, “the construction of a new three-story annex building with an expansion area of ​​more than 15,000 square meters”, and different alternatives for the parking expansion on the outside.
On the other hand, the City Council proposed the “replacement of the currently existing metal halide technology with 250 LED technology projectors with a unit power of 1,500W to guarantee the lighting level required by FIFA of 2,000 Lux”, as well as a “photovoltaic solar installation of 6,000 square meters in order to guarantee that 75% of the total power consumed comes from renewable sources “.
