As a way to promote various sports branches that are developed under the eaves of Club Santiago Wanderers, the Citizen Mayor’s Office signed a commitment with this association to provide them with a subsidy that will directly benefit them.
After signing, the Mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharpasserted that “We are convinced that the work being carried out by the Santiago Wanderers Sports Club Corporation is good for Buenos Aires sports, which is why we have committed a subsidy of more than $70 million pesos to support, first of all , all the infrastructure works that are being carried out in their sports venues, so that more residents can play sports. Secondly, support the International Futsal Competition that Valparaíso represents today in the Copa Libertadores de América 2024.”
For its part, Carla Meyer, in charge of the Community Development Directoratestated that “The Citizen Mayor’s Office has been committed to improving sports infrastructure. This year we are going to invest more than $2 billion pesos, between municipal resources and external funds, to improve sports infrastructure and in that we could not be oblivious to the important work that the Santiago Wanderers Corporation is carrying out in different sports branches, in Volleyball and Basketball, especially in Futsal where they represent Valparaíso at the Latin American level. This subsidy will allow us to improve the infrastructure of the Arsenio Fernández Sports Center that they have today in the Playa Ancha sector.”
Santiago Wanderers Corporation
Various representatives of the sports branches of the Santiago Wanderers Club were happy and grateful after signing this support that will allow them to better promote the development of sports activity.
This was stated by María Angélica Escudero, president of the Santiago Wanderers Corporation: “This commitment is a relevant and strategic alliance that will allow us to finance different initiatives that focus on four axes: administration to improve our institutions to be able to generate better conditions to finance other initiatives; infrastructure in our Arsenio Fernández social and sports center, which today hosts training for all the club’s sports branches, bringing together more than 400 athletes from Valparaíso and the region in general.”
adding that “Then there is the sports implementation thinking about improving the conditions of all branches to provide them with new balls, new bibs and clothing for the coaching staff. And, finally, there is Futsal Libertadores, we are less than a month away from the historic participation that the Futsal branch is going to have in the Copa Libertadores that will be held in Buenos Aires between May 19 and 26 and that for us is a titanic challenge. We needed financing that would allow us to go in the best possible conditions, to provide our players, coaching staff, and management of the branch with the best conditions and to make us feel proud and proud of the fact that Santiago Wanderers is the Chilean representative in a continental competition. aspire to obtain the best sporting results.”
Marcela Díaz, Volleyball coordinator of the Santiago Wanderers Club, stated that this subsidy “It is important, because it opens up new tools and the idea is to diversify the contribution to other sports and not just football. Volleyball is very present in the city, we just lack more resources; Our materials are very expensive and this contribution helps us achieve quality training and presentations.”
For its part, Luis Henríquez, coordinator of the Santiago Wanderers Futsal Men’s Category, stated that this subsidy is “For us it is the necessary backing and support, both for our daily activity in our branch and for the main challenge this year, which is to represent Chile in the Copa Libertadores, raising the name of the club and being great ambassadors of the city.” .
