"We are going to do everything possible so that the Copa América returns in 2027", confirmed this Tuesday the mayoress of Valencia, María José Catalá. The first mayor met this morning with the president of the president of the Valencian Business Association (AVE) and president of Boluda Corporación Marítima, Vicente Boluda, and upon his departure both have shown good harmony and a common interest in the sports competition, which it already celebrated the city in its 2007 and 2010 editions.
Catalá explained that "from now on we set ourselves that challenge", in reference to recovering the sporting event in the city, a feat to which now, he warns, Barcelona has joined, where it will be held from August 22 to the end of October of 2024. "Barcelona becomes, for this next edition, that competitor due to the lack of conviction and commitment to this city of the previous government", he explained. This is how Catalá alluded to the management of former mayor Joan Ribó, who gave up holding the event due to economic conditions.
Following Catalá's statements, Vicente Boluda assured that "of course the business community is involved in the recovery of the Copa América, it is very important not only for the city but also for the Port".
Boluda has shown his support for the mayoress in this proposal; He has said that "there will certainly be private investment in the Copa América" and has reiterated that "nobody approached me to ask me for anything as president of one of the most prominent business associations in Valencia. If the previous government had asked us, we would have helped," he confirmed. "There will be moral and economic help," she asserted.
Another of the issues discussed at the meeting was the future of the Navy, a space for which Catalá hopes to form an entity in which there is representation from the Port of Valencia, the Valencia City Council and the Generalitat Valenciana, but time will mark them the formation of the new Council that will be chaired by Carlos Mazón.
The new institution will have the three administrations and will work to legally resolve the current situation to which the mayor has assured that it was reached "due to the lack of diligence of the previous government."
