| The objective: to make basketball gain in competitiveness and become more attractive to fans and sponsors | The Cartagena City Council is working together with basketball clubs on a new project that improves coordination between teams to make basketball gain in competitiveness and become more attractive to fans and sponsors, according to the Deputy Mayor and head of the Sports area, Noelia Arroyo.Arroyo has stated that "the clubs are the protagonists of this pending transformation and their city council is by their side working together with them to achieve their objective." For the Deputy Mayor, the sum of the efforts of the basketball clubs will serve so that "Cartagena basketball makes a leap in quality, that in sports is more competitive and more attractive to new players and that, in addition, it becomes an increasingly best offer of sport and health for the people of Cartagena ”.The vice mayor has made these statements after receiving, along with the councilor for Sports, Diego Ortega, Pedro Collado, who leaves the presidency of the Club Basket Cartagena after 13 years in office, and David Ayala, who replaces him at the head of the entity.Collado explained that he resigns from the presidency to dedicate more time to his family, he has pointed out the historical importance that basketball in Cartagena has had at regional and national level, and has expressed his wish that his successor in office develop his sports projects with the help it deserves to return the Cartagena basket to the level Cartagena deserves.David Ayala has thanked Collado for his work as head of the entity and has promised to continue his work to achieve the city's basketball unit.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena