The AFA announced that the women’s team will have its own housing and training complex in Carlos Spegazzin

The female selections will have their own space. The biggest and youth will stop working on the site Lionel Messi from Ezeiza and will move to their own sports and housing complex, which will be built in another town of the same party. This was announced on Friday by the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapiaaccompanied by the local mayor Gastón Granados and the soccer director of the FIFA, Jill Ellis.

The presences of Granados and Ellis explain the nature of the project: the AFA and the Intendance celebrated the signature of the transfer for 30 years of land in Carlos Spegazziniwhile the disbursement for investment comes from Zurich, for the program Forward which drives the development of activity worldwide.

Emancipation implies the growth of the female branch, which must no longer share training shifts with the masculine. The property has projected a complex of “Rooms, kitchen and dining room for daily use, a high -tech gym, wet and recovery area, tactical rooms for the different technical bodies, soccer fields, recreational areas and press room”according to the AFA in its official place.

Through the Forward program and the disbursement of two million dollars, the AFA built in Ezeiza the video room (vor) that uses the VAR since the beginning of 2022. On this occasion, the amount or terms of execution of the work for the female was not disseminated.

“It is a real pride“Ellis said, more adjusted to the protocol than to the details.

The players preselected by the Sub 17 coach, Christian Meloniwho works in Ezeiza for the South American of the category that will take place between April 30 and May 24 in Colombia.

“I want to celebrate this day, historical for the women’s football in our country. It is a pride that together with FIFA we can develop this high performance complex and that we can demonstrate, once again, the commitment that this management with the activity has,”Said Tapia.

The announcement cannot be better combined with the calendar: last week, Tapia fulfilled its eighth anniversary at the head of the AFA. It was his own Chiqui who took the opportunity to remember that in assuming in March 2017 it was proposed “Being the driving of gender equality in Argentine football”.

If the date falls round for the announcement, another coincidence follows from the photo. Because just over 10 years ago, in the restaurant that the Granados family has on the side of the highway that leads to the property, the leaders of the ascent sang for the first time “Chiqui President”when Tapia was not in anyone’s plans.

In addition to Tapia and Granados, in the photo are two of those who also proclaimed that – then – candidacy that was believed unusual in the shadow of Marcelo Tinelli. But this time, Jorge Luis BarriosPresident of Students of homemade and AFA Women’s Soccer Commissionaccompanied by his vice, Diego Turnesalso vice from Central tentsThey were part of the announcement.