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The Minister of Culture and spokesman of the regional government, Noelia Arroyo, attended today the presentation of the Foundation Football Club Cartagena to support the team in the implementation of this new project "that will contribute to make this emblematic club and sport bigger Of our Region, joining football to other sports, not only sports, but social, educational and cultural activities and encouraging the participation in different sectors of society.

Arroyo accompanied during this event the president of FC Cartagena, Paco Belmonte, and the president of the Foundation, Isidoro García.

Likewise, the Councilor for Sports of the City of Cartagena, Ricardo Segado, and the Councilor for Social Services, Carmen Martín, attended the presentation of the first activities organized until April.

Through the Foundation, initiatives will be launched such as those aimed at promoting the base sport, and they will be able to add companies and individuals "who will find in the fiscal incentives put in place by the regional government, an incentive and a fantastic way to strengthen And enhance our sport. "

With this measure, any financial contribution to the foundation may be taxed in the income statement.

"From the Government will continue to promote the culture of investment in sport and culture," said the Minister, who recalled that "with subsidies we can not reach all and that is a reality that increasingly understand more citizens and is shown In consultations such as the one carried out for the Culture and Sport Impulse Plan, which reflected that 67 percent of the participants understood that public-private collaboration in these areas is "very or very important."

"Little by little the society is becoming aware of the importance of supporting the initiatives that are celebrated in the Region, and for that reason the fiscal incentives will continue being present in this plan that has had the support of all the sectors involved and that will contemplate different Measures to strengthen culture and sport, two key sectors in regional development, "added Noelia Arroyo.

Base sport

The first activity organized by the Fundación FC Cartagena will take place on Sunday, February 15, at 6:00 p.m.

This is a friendly match between FC Cartagena and CSKA Moscow, whose proceeds will go to the benefit of the Football Association of Cartagena and Comarca (AFCT), made up of about thirty football clubs.

Arroyo congratulated the promoters of this initiative "to pay attention to the sport base, who will be the athletes of the future, who will bear the name of the Region around the world."

Likewise, he recalled that "base sport is one of the main lines of action within the Sports budgets for 2017, since we recovered the aid that was not delivered since 2010 with a budget of 100,000 euros."

The FC Cartagena Foundation will also carry out activities with schoolchildren in the coming months.

"Sport is an educational tool that helps to transmit values ​​to the children and young people of our Region and in this sense it is especially important that football, which is the most followed and popular sport in our country, is a vehicle to contribute to the Awareness and awareness of society, as well as the education of our youth, "said the spokeswoman for the Executive.

Meetings are being held with young people from the intercultural centers and visits of the first FC Cartagena team to schools in the municipality.

In addition, the Foundation has launched a campaign for the prevention of school absenteeism and another against smoking ('For a Cartagonova without bad smells'), in addition to the actions that will contribute to the promotion of Cartagena's tourism and adhesion to acts Of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The organization of specialized technical conferences, a discussion on the proper use of social networks by athletes, the beginning of a cardiological study of the FC Cartagena youth center, carried out in collaboration with the Virgen de la Caridad Medical Center, and the National Days on 'Fair Play' with the Royal Spanish Football Federation are other actions planned.

Source: CARM