After Alfonso Pérez's statements in an interview in El Mundo, this Wednesday members of both the club and the City Council met to discuss the issue. Both parties have agreed that the municipal stadium, transferred to the Getafense football team, will stop being called Alfonso Pérez and will be renamed 'Coliseum'.
"Women's and men's football cannot be compared at all, because everything depends on the income you generate and the media impact," he said. "It is what it is. Everyone has to know where they are and what they generate," said the former soccer player.
The mayor of Getafe, the socialist Sara Hernández, contacted the club's president, Ángel Torres, on Tuesday to propose the name change.
In a joint statement this Tuesday, the club and the city council defended the decision due to "the need to preserve the positive values that emanate from sport, which are promoted in the city through sports schools." In addition, they assure that the Getafe C.F. fans It also mostly agrees on the need for this municipal facility, given to the club, to be "an example to transmit the positive values of sport such as equality, solidarity and respect."
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has criticized the decision of the City Council (governed by PSOE and Podemos) and has assured that "the dictatorship of the left is astonishing: a veteran former soccer player cannot even give his opinion if "power doesn't like it."
