The municipal administration of Mayor Enrique Cresto, together with different areas of the Municipality, supported the initiative that brought together more than a thousand people, including students, teachers, and speakers who arrived from other parts of the country. The mayor, along with the Secretary of Government and Treasury, Aldo Álvarez, and the members of the Sports Secretariat led by Martín Méndez, a graduate of this institution, participated in this Second Ibero-American Congress of Sciences Applied to Football at the headquarters of the Higher Institute of Physical Education Specialties (ISEEF). The event gathered a large number of attendees, who were able to exchange opinions and reflect with peers on different topics related to sports in the city.
In this regard, Mayor Enrique Cresto stated that “it is a source of pride. I am less than 4 months away from finishing my term, and being able to enjoy this, to show this indoor stadium, which we dreamed of back in 2008 with Mario Legarreta –who was the Director of Sports at the time– and with the Physical Education Center team. At that moment, we started dreaming about these 20 hectares because: why shouldn't we have a CENARD in Concordia? Why does every athlete in Argentina have to go to the Federal Capital, when we have the space and a huge willingness to build the infrastructure? And that is how this whole process was given momentum,” described the Mayor.
Next, Cresto announced that “in a few months this will be inaugurated: with the improvements to the athletics track and the hockey field, the hostel that is being built –it is being expanded for 110 people, which will allow not only for other delegations to come, but also for any association in Concordia to request it so that each discipline can select its athletes, just as Las Leoncitas came–”.
For his part, the former Director of Sports of the Municipality and current Director of the ISEEF, Mario Legarreta, declared: “I am extremely happy for the support we have received from the Municipality, from Enrique Cresto, and from Governor Gustavo Bordet, because we wanted to show Concordia and the entire region what we are capable of doing when we work as a team. We made a great effort to bring the best professors from Argentina and some who are working abroad, and that will enrich us because they are people who have a lot of experience and are willing to exchange knowledge,” commented Legarreta.
In the same vein, Martín Méndez, Secretary of Sports of the Municipality, stated: “we are happy to be witnessing this dream that we see come true today, in order to take action in the future with different sports and also seeing the progress in the different activities and institutions that operate within this complex. Concordia is a city with a very important sporting footprint,” he concluded.