The CAR of León will receive 7.5 million investment until 2025

This is what CSD President José Manuel Franco said on his first visit to the Leonese High Performance Center, which he described as a “reference in Spain and Europe”.

The agency will receive 40% more budgets in 2022, adding 400,000 euros from the first executions of the recovery funds

Leon, October 20, 2021.- The President of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Franco, visited this morning the High Performance Center (CAR) of Leon, where he announced the increase in investment destined to the agency for the coming years. Specifically, the CAR of León will receive 7.5 million euros until 2025 from the funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan associated with the modernization and ecological transformation of sports facilities.

As he explained, the Leonese CAR – dependent on the CSD and the only centre of its kind in Castilla y León – will receive the first 400,000 euros of investment in 2022, as provided for in the preliminary draft of the General State Budgets for the coming year. This represents an increase in the centre’s regular budget of 40% compared to 2021.

“We are convinced that things are being done well and that it is essential to continue betting on the CAR de León, a reference centre in Spain and Europe. It is what this center, this city, this community and, of course, the sport of León deserves”, said Franco on his first visit to the center.

Accompanied by the director of the CAR, Daniel Mateos; the mayor of León, José Antonio Diez; the deputy delegate of the Government, Faustino Sánchez, Franco has visited the facilities and services of the agency, which cover a space of more than 25,000 square meters where almost one hundred elite athletes train every day in twelve different specialties. The center also hosts spaces dedicated to technical training, sports research and promotion, in close collaboration with the University and the public administrations of León.

Among the athletes to whom the president of the CSD has been able to greet are the Olympians in weight throwing Belén Toimil and Carlos Tobalina, one of the specialties in which the CAR of León stands out nationally. He has also shared a few minutes with Constantino Iglesias, president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Halterophilia (RFEH), and the batch of young halters who train since September in the center, just the day on which the program of state-run halterophilia technification has been presented.

The Secretary of State for Sport also recalled the “historic” figure of 315 million euros that will be allocated this year to the CSD in the General Budgets of the State, 25% more than the previous year, and a “resounding commitment to sport” by the Government.