Barcelona, Spain.
Given the elections in FC Barcelona on March 7, in which Joan Laporta, the club president between 2003 and 2010 and now a candidate with Víctor Font and Toni Freixa, would pretend, as stated and interpreted by the Catalan media, take Barca from Camp Nou for remodeling the stadium for at least two and a half years.
The refurbishment of the venue in Barcelona would take time at that time and therefore the blaugrana team would continue to play their matches at the stadium. Montjuïc. In statements, Laporta said his goal would be to prepare for 125 years of the Catalan institution.
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“We are facing the most important and emblematic project of the club in the coming years, for the next generations, and we have to do it very well. We have to decide if we can continue to play at the Camp Nou in the years when the works last or go to another stadium “, begins.
“And this taking into account the fact that we are talking about a term, if we stay, of six years and that it cannot be done continuously”, warned Laporta. He indicated that the works should be done “discontinuously”.
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Laporta leads the polls in front of the club’s elections, which are going through not only a sports crisis, but also an institutional and economic crisis, after recurring signings and failed negotiations of the footballers. At the same time, Laporta would be Lionel Messi’s favorite candidate to take over the reins of the institution.
The candidate explained that, at that time (2007-2008), the budget was 230 million euros and that now it amounted to 825, for the remodeling of the historic site.