Rafael Louzán: ‘Zaragoza is going to be a great venue for the 2030 World Cup’.

In an intense day of work, on Tuesday the president of the RFEF was able to see first-hand the progress that Zaragoza is making on its past to be a host city for the 2030 World Cup.

Accompanied by the president of the Royal Aragonese Football Federation, Manuel Torralba and the secretary general of the RFEF, Álvaro de Miguel, Rafael Louzán held his first meeting with the mayoress of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, in the Town Hall of the Zaragoza City Council, where they analysed the work and progress that the Aragonese capital is making towards its participation as the venue for the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

At the end of the meeting, Louzán confirmed that ‘there is a very beautiful path ahead. Zaragoza will be one of the eleven confirmed venues, as a very well located city in which there is an unbeatable readiness and political will to fulfil the necessary requirements. There is still time ahead, but we are very happy to be going through the whole process together’.

His was a joy shared by the Mayoress of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, who reviewed the state of the building works on the Nueva Romareda, pointing out that ‘the construction is progressing well, on course to meet the deadline of 119 weeks. We are progressing according to the roadmap’.

The mayor also wanted to ‘thank the president of the RFEF for his openness to the city. Zaragoza comes out in force every time there is a big sporting event and I hope that we can host many more of this type’. These words were echoed by Rafael Louzán, who said he was ‘totally open to being able to hold many more events in Zaragoza’.

In June The Women's National Team could inaugurate the stadium that will be built in the Aragonese capital and where Real Zaragoza plans to play its matches next season.

Among those being studied, a possible warm-up match for the Women's National Team stands out, just before Spain's participation in the next European Championships, and which would serve to inaugurate Zaragoza's stadium, where the city's biggest club will play its matches throughout next season.

The work on this facility, located on the grounds of the International Exhibition, was one of the places that Rafael Louzán visited together with the Mayoress of Zaragoza and guided by the manager of the Nueva Romareda company, Martín Fuica Larrañaga, who showed the progress that has been made over the last few months.

Erected in 1957, the La Romareda stadium will undergo a complete renovation in order to become one of the eleven Spanish venues for the FIFA World Cup that our country will host in 2030 along with Morocco and Portugal and which, in the words of the president of the RFEF himself, ‘we want it to be the best World Cup in history’.