The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) continues without connecting a good hit with the “new forms of economic management” that they intend to implement in the Latin American Stadium since October 2021. According to the vice president of Inder, Omar Venegas Echemendía, the objective is to recover strategic spaces that have been lost at the headquarters of the Havana team Industriales.
Venegas spoke this Wednesday of the “transition of the Latin American Stadium to a budgeted unit with special treatment”, a management model in which the Coloso del Cerro, as the property is known, must generate 30% of your budget and the other 70% will be provided by the sports organization.
The official did nothing more than resume part of the speech from almost 16 months ago by the president of the Cuban Baseball Federation, Juan Reinaldo Pérez, about an “experimental” model that will now be applied for a year to “evaluate its feasibility.”
For this strategy, according to Venegas, “various services will be hired”, without indicating which ones, “a store specializing in sports components will be opened” and they intend to “link the Latin American Stadium with tourism.”
Almost two years ago, there was talk of “opening the door” at “ MSMEs and cooperatives to present projects focused on shared benefits”, but apparently the hook was not as attractive as the sports authorities thought.
“Several services will be hired”, “a store specializing in sports components will be opened” and they intend to “link the Latin American Stadium with tourism”
With the 62nd National Baseball Series, which will begin on March 22 and whose first stage ends on June 3, the Latin American must show the management changes and improve the gastronomic offer for Cuban baseball fans, so hit by the lack of results in tournaments abroad and the flight of players.
The Latin American Stadium, which last October was declared National Heritage, was built in 1946 and remained for more than 60 years with hardly any modifications. It was in 2014, according to a construction worker told 14ymediowhich due to the poor conditions of “the sanitary services, the hydraulic system and especially the roof” forced its remodeling.
During the repair, it was used to define new heating areas at the bottom of the dogoutsthe old batting cages and the area were removed foul was expanded.
On the other hand, the Island continues to lose players. Ronald Elías Terrero, who was part of the Cuban team in the U-15 World Cup that took place in Mexico last September, is already in the Dominican Republic. According to the journalist Francys Romero, the athlete is from Isla de la Juventud and is 15 years old. “After September he will apply for free agency” in search of a major league team.
The baseball player is training in San Pedro de Macorís at the renowned Fernando Tatis Academy. With Terrero there are now nine U-15 baseball players who have left Cuba. The other eight are Alejandro Prieto, Segian Pérez, Ernest Machado, Dulieski Ferrán, Alex Acosta, Jonathan Valle, Christian de Jésus Zamora and Yosniel Menéndez.
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