The solidarity meeting, called “Fuerza La Palma”, will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will have a team dressed in white, which will be called “La Palma”, and another with green clothing, whose name will be “Isla Bonita”, and will be refereed by Alejandro Hernández Hernández from Lanzarote.
Granadilla exposed on Twitter the possibility of playing a friendly match and found a quick response from UD Las Palmas to organize this unique match, in which the professional squads of both clubs will be mixed.
The shirts of the two teams will go on sale at the end of the match, signed by each player, at the price of 100 euros.
Tickets can now be obtained at the Gran Canaria Stadium at the price of 7, 9, 11, 12 and 15 euros in the Curva, South, Tribuna, Special Tribune and VIP stands, respectively.
The presidents of both entities, Miguel Ángel Ramírez and Sergio Batista, respectively, as well as the Sports Minister of the Cabildo de La Palma, Raúl Camacho, attended the presentation ceremony on Friday telematically.
Ramírez valued the celebration of this meeting as “a social movement so that no one forgets the palm trees, there is a responsibility of the leaders of our country and the general public is collaborating with what they can, we must return to help all those affected “.
In addition, the president of the Sports Union wanted to thank the Tenerife club for choosing them “as a traveling companion for this match”, as well as all the collaborating companies and artists who are going to join the meeting, since there will be performances before and After the match.
“The samples of support need something more, they need an institutional responsibility that does not correspond only to the institutions of La Palma, here everyone has to get involved to end that uncertainty,” reiterated the yellow president.
For his part, Sergio Batista, president of the UD Granadilla Tenerife Egatesa, thanked “the predisposition of the UD Las Palmas to carry out the game, it is something that moves, and the fact is that the Canary Islands have always been a people of solidarity”.
In addition, he recalled that in the ranks of Granadilla there are many players from Gran Canaria, who are also “excited to be able to play in their land and in front of their people, in their stadium.”
The sports counselor of the Cabildo de La Palma, Raúl Camacho, appeared online and thanked UD Las Palmas and the female Granadilla for joining together to carry out this match.
“There is a post after the volcano, and that is where we should all be. If something characterizes us is that we are a union, we are one. From the Cabildo de La Palma, in the voice of the president and all the island’s inhabitants, we give many Thank you from the bottom of my heart for holding this event, “he stressed.
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