“There Reggina 1914 is back and the city of Reggio Calabria can only rejoice. The “Reggina” brand was in fact acquired at auction by the LFA Reggio Calabria of Ballarino, surpassing the offers of Stefano Bandecchi but above all of Common of Reggio Calabria. We can only be happy for the happy ending of this unpleasant sporting page for the Amaranths, wishing the club rapid success for a quick rebirth and presence in the football that counts, where Reggina deserves to be.” Thus begins the note Demetrius Giordanosecretary of PRI (Italian Republican Party).
“However, the PRI and all the people of Reggio have discovered, with immense amazement, that the municipal coffers have at least one hundred thousand euros immediately available, i.e. the minimum amount that the Municipality was able to invest, but was unable to, for the acquisition of the brand. Together with the statements of Falcomata on the return of “an asset that we have defined as a collective heritage of the city”, we would have liked to hear from him, or from someone on his behalf, how the amount allocated for the auction will be used. The “transparency” of the administration does not allow us to understand where this figure was extrapolated from, we fear that it was initially intended for the construction of other works which, by winning the auction, the Municipality would have overshadowed. However, we are happy to know that today there is a small nest egg that can be immediately spent but, due to the aforementioned transparency, we cannot know for what”.
The proposal: commitment to suburban sport
“There is no doubt that the city would be so in need of interventions, both structural and economic (road maintenance, public green areas, etc.), that this figure would be negligible for any type of measure in this sense. Remaining in the sporting field, we would therefore like to underline how suburban sport continues to be a mirage in the city, carried out only by those few amateur associations (often self-financed) and with the plant limitations that we all know. Not to mention multipurpose and recreational structures where young people from Reggio can live their daily lives: promoting community and inclusion sports already means promoting legality and respect for the rules, especially in a city like Reggio which lacks both”.
“Unfortunately, we also have a very recent example in mind: the Catona football field, a point of reference for the children of the former VIII district, had been abandoned for years and remained at the mercy of barbarians who annulled it over the years and pickpockets who, without any respect for public affairs, robbed the structure of electrical systems, sanitary fixtures, fixtures and railings, to the point of becoming a landfill. After years of struggle, the structure had been given attention by the Municipality and its reclamation financed but, a few days after its completion, it suffered a fire”.
Broken promises
“However, there are entire areas still without such systems. I mention just a few who, in recent years, have been affected by promises (not yet kept) of the first and second Falcomatà governments: Ciccarello, Cannavò with Vinco and Pavigliana, Modena and San Sperato, Mosorrofa with Cataforio, etc. etc. etc. The institutions first and foremost, together with sports clubs, must therefore work together to give young people from Reggio an alternative to the “street”, placing emphasis on the educational value of sport as a training ground for legality. In this sense, the Republicans hope that the administration will pay the same attention given to our Reggina 1914 also to suburban sports”.
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