City Council plenary approves motion supporting BM Puerto Sagunto

The City Council plenary has approved by a majority a motion supporting the defence of BM Puerto Sagunto. Through it, Mayor Alfredo Castelló has received a mandate from the plenary to help us find new sponsors. The motion was approved with the votes of PP, PSOE, Bloc-Compromís and Esquerra Unida in favour, while SP voted against because of the wording of the statement of reasons and, as its spokesperson Manolo González explained, because of the appeal defending the “Sagunto brand” included in that statement. He also declared his group’s support for BM Puerto Sagunto, though not for the red-and-white board, in its attempt, according to González, “to support the city as a whole”. Likewise, SP’s spokesperson described the initiative to defend the “Sagunto brand” as a “political decision”.

The Board of Directors of Balonmano Puerto Sagunto would like to record its gratitude to all the groups, including SP, for the support they have always given and continue to give the club. Nevertheless, we wish to express our absolute disagreement with the claim that our initiative is due to political decisions of any kind. Among our supporters and on our board, there are political sensibilities from across the municipality’s entire political spectrum, and this club has been and will remain, for as long as this Board of Directors continues, completely neutral in any political stance. It could not be otherwise for a sporting organisation representing so many thousands of supporters.

We believe that SP’s vote against the club is not good for it (they could, after all, have abstained). We need everyone and do not serve any political group; in these difficult times, we seek unanimity, not divisions, which do nothing to help us achieve our ultimate aim of surviving as an elite club.

Our ambition is to be not only the handball club of Puerto de Sagunto or its municipality, but the handball team of the entire provinces of Valencia and Castellón, without forgetting our deep roots in Puerto de Sagunto, the place where we were born in 1951 and where we will die as a club—hopefully many centuries from now.

To conclude this matter on our part, we also wish to record that the decision questioned by SP councillor César Vera regarding the presence of the President or Vice-Presidents at the plenary meeting to support the motion was a fully conscious decision, precisely to avoid conflicts that would do nothing to benefit our ultimate objective. What we had to say and do was already set out at the spokespersons’ meeting; anything else is politics, while we play sport, not politics.

Now, what we hope and wish is that Mayor Alfredo Castelló intensifies his contacts, makes the search for private sponsorship a major priority on his agenda, and that the rest of the political groups, regardless of colour, do everything they can to facilitate the ultimate objective: ensuring that BM Puerto Sagunto’s red-and-white colours continue to travel throughout Spain in the highest tier of Spanish handball.

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