Sports diplomacy in the USA

The UD Las Palmas moves more money than the Port of Las Palmas. The team emerged, like NATO, 75 years ago by the drive of exporters and industrialists from the islands at a time when the world was reorganizing after World War II. That is to say: it was always UD Las Palmas, a club with an international vocation with ingredients from powers that used the Canary Islands to grow in the Atlantic, taking advantage of its fiscal framework and geographical location halfway between Europe and America.

This 2024 a delegation from UD Las Palmas headed by its advisor Rafael Mendezand the general manager of UD Las Palmas, Patricio Viñayohas outlined in the USA the creation of a Canary Islands agenda for technical cooperation within the framework of the strategic plan for internationalization which is launched with this 2024-25 season in the team chaired by Miguel Angel Ramirez without forgetting the measure of patronage to the Canary Islands quarryWhy now? Among other reasons because LaLiga now wants to grow in the US and UD Las Palmas has roots in North America precisely because of the Canarian community that resides in that market.