After the visit of Malagò to the places where they should arise swimming pool, sports hall and new stadium in viale Europa in Torre del Greco, the former mayor Giovanni Palomba he underlined the role of the previous administration led by him in laying the foundations for the sports citadel project.
Palomba: “PNRR funds thanks to us, good that Mennella is carrying the project forward”
In the space on Viale Europa which should host the new sports citadel in Torre del Greco, CONI president Giovanni Malagò did not hide a certain dismay, while remaining in his institutional aplomb. “Possibly no one before her have you thought about giving sports facilities to this city?”the n.1 of Italian sport replied to the mayor Luigi Mennella at the presentation of the project.
The mayor stated: “This project has been talked about for 50 years“, and it’s true. But of this “river of words”, some (quite important) were said by Mennella’s predecessor himself. Giovanni Palomba, in fact, wanted to remember in the morning: “As for the arena and the swimming pool, i PNRR funds for the realization they were found by our administration. Also because the deadline for obtaining those funds fell within our five-year period: It’s not true that we didn’t do anything“.
We are close to sport: we worked for the Serie C stadium
Palomba continues: “I’m really happy that the current administration is strongly pursuing this project for the good of the city, improving and enlarging it with the addition of the stadium, as is happening with others: and I am sure that Mennella will be equally good at finding other funds. For our part, we have been close to the city’s sport, a improve the Liguori stadium with the works necessary for a Serie C championship”.
Langella: “We insisted on having the project financed”
The statements of Michele Langellatoday an opposition municipal councilor but a political point of reference for the S. Maria la Bruna district in which the plant should be built: “We have always believed in the importance of the citadel in Viale Europa both for the tourist development of the area and for the importance that it will have for the so-called minor sports and I say this as a former judo athlete: for this I personally worked hard together with former councilor Enrico Pensatat the time so that the proposals we had in the drawer for the stadium, arena and Litoranea were presented, even at the risk of great political sacrifices”.
Michele Langella claims paternity of the sports citadel project.
“Good for the suburbs: we have always believed in it. But we expected institutional politeness”
“This is why it is good that the current administration develops the project, political cycles open and close and now it’s their turn: but we claim paternity of the preliminary project thanks to which the funds were obtained and the excellent political work of the former administration and of the former municipal managers who worked on it with great effort”he continued.
Concluding: “It would have been, in my opinion, a form of institutional correctness and courtesy invite to the “baptism” of the citadel, in the presence of Malagò, even some representatives of the previous administrationthe mayor himself or the sports councilor”.
A role held by Giuseppe Speranza who also intervened by commenting on the live broadcast of the event created by VesuvioLive.it, also underlining how the genesis of the project had not been mentioned at all on the sunny afternoon in Viale Europa. And who, upon comment from a spectator who was expecting the presence of the former city sports delegate, commented: “I don’t usually go to events I haven’t been invited to”.
