Story By: Juan Mayes, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Golder’s News And Sport

This is the 19-million-GBP, 20,000-seater football stadium which is under construction and being paid for by taxpayers money despite not having any teams to occupy it.

The new 20,000-seater stadium is under construction in the city of Mazatlan, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a predominantly baseball town with its main stadium, the Teodoro Mariscal, seating 16 thousand baseball fans.

The project was presented by the local government led by Quirino Ordaz Coppel and will be funded with public money despite the city not having a football team in Mexico’s top two divisions.

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Local media report the government hope that by the time the construction is completed in the May 2020 a top-flight team will be interested in moving in. The project was initially set to only take 427 days is now expected to have a 20-month delay and is not expected to be finished until May 2020.

The governor has expressed full and complete confidence in the project and assures that there will be a team for the stadium by the time construction is finalised. 

Governor Quirino said in an interview with Mexican media: “Of course there will be a football team in Mazatlan, and let me tell you, there are teams from the First Division that are interested, but the issue is the cost, the business people have to come into the project, investors. 

“The problem here is the money and it has to be from business, that would generate an enormous broadcast for Sinaloa.”

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