Barcelona, Spain.
In view of the elections to FC Barcelona, on March 7, in which Joan Laporta, President of the club between 2003 and 2010 and now candidate alongside Víctor Font and Toni Freixa, I would claim, as stated and interpreted by Catalan media, take the Barca from the Camp Nou for the remodeling of the stadium for at least two and a half years.
The remodeling works on the Barcelona grounds would last this time and, for this reason, the ‘Barça’ team would play their matches at the Barcelona stadium. Montjuïc. In statements, Laporta argued that it would aim to prepare for the 125th anniversary of the Catalan institution.
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“We are facing the most important and emblematic club project in the coming years, for future generations, and we must do very well. We must decide whether we can continue playing at the Camp Nou during the years that the works last or another stage, ”he begins.
“And this given that we are talking about a period, if we stay, of six years and that can not be done continuously,” said Laporta. He indicated that the works should be worked on “discontinuously”.
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Laporta leads polls ahead of the club’s elections, which are going through not only a sporting crisis, but also an institutional and economic one, followed by recurring signings and failed negotiations by footballers. At the same time, Laporta would be Lionel Messi’s favorite candidate to take the reins of the institution.
The candidate explained that, at that time (2007-2008), the budget was 230 million euros and now amounted to 825, for the remodeling of the historic site.