Malaga America’s Cup

Malaga has been working discreetly for weeks to host the thirty-37th America’s Cup, to be held in 2024, an international event that would provide “high economic performance in exchange for a moderate investment in infrastructure”, as confirmed by the mayor of the city Francisco de la Torre, although private sponsorships are sought to reduce the public contribution.

In this way, the Andalusian city joins the fight with Valencia, Jedda (Saudi Arabia) and Cork (Ireland), once Barcelona, ​​which had a very advanced project for it, finally decided not to bid, and the administrations did not they were finally very much for the work. Which does not seem to happen in Malaga and half in Valencia, which is who could be in the best position but who could miss the March train, which is how much Team New Zealand will reveal its final choice, which should not be ruled out Auckland.

This has been pointed out by De la Torre, who has ensured that the organizers of this sporting event are “very interested” in the city due to “the combination of strategic location, climate, wind regime, culture and history, infrastructure, connectivity, quality and hotel capacity ”.

The mayor of Malaga, who has intervened this Tuesday in the debate on the state of the city, stressed that this event is “the oldest trophy in the world and one of the sporting events with the most global impact” and has insisted that it be to seek that the cost of this project falls on private sponsorships.

The Malaga proposal, for whose coordination the Andalusian Government, the Provincial Council, the Port Authority and State Ports and with the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, are “in contact”, “only” requires an adaptation in an area of ​​the port where the bases of the teams would be.

De la Torre has stated that since October they are “studying this possibility and analyzing impact reports” of the different venues where the America’s Cup has taken place in the last 15 years, a competition of 6 teams in which each one manages a budget of approximately 120 million.

The mayor has asserted that some of these teams would begin to settle in the city between the end of this year and the beginning of next, in 2023 the preliminary competitions would begin and in the first quarter of 2024 the final would be held, which would place Malaga in ” foreground worldwide ”.

The leader of the PSOE in the Malaga City Council and provincial secretary of the party, Daniel Pérez, has indicated that they must study the circumstances of the celebration of this Copa América in other cities and has asked De la Torre “not always ask the central government look for investment “and be” more serious. “