A few hours after playing the 2025 Copa América final, the Colombian women’s team rejected this Friday an eventual and hard reduction of the budget assigned to the Ministry of Sports.
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The players made the request to President Gustavo Petro in the middle of a training in Quito, where this Saturday they will play with Brazil the title of the women’s most important selections in South America.
With its classification to the final of the competition, The team secured a ticket at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and Olympic preparation depends, in part, public money.
“Mr. President, nation is not built without sport. We do not cut what unites us most”Said the lead Linda Caicedo, Real Madrid player, in a video released by the Colombian Olympic Committee (COC).
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Between 2024 and 2025 the Petro government cut 66% of the sport budgetleaving it at 464,000 million pesos.
By 2026 a reduction is planned up to 312,000 million (about 75 million dollars), according to the budget proposal recently presented by the Government to Congress.
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“When our athletes shine, a whole country rises. Cutting sport is to turn off that pride.”add in the sequence the archera Katherine Tapia, of the Palmeiras de Sao Paulo.
Colombia, fourth Latin American economy, has presented improvements in its economic indicators, although it faces pressures due to the increase in its public debt and the suspension of the fiscal rule that imposes limits to public spending.
AFP
