Atlètic Club Lloret has denounced the management of the Lloret de Mar City Council regarding the use of the Molí football pitch, a municipal facility where more than 350 male and female players from the entity train and compete. The conflict focuses on the afternoon slot, between 4:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., which the club maintains is being repeatedly ceded to sports tourism activities, especially to foreign teams visiting the municipality.
The entity assures that this situation is leaving part of its youth football without normal training and has generated discomfort among families. The club's president, Tito Fornaguera, specifies that the problem directly affects the infant and cadet teams, some ninety footballers.
Complaint for the loss of training hours
Fornaguera explains that at the beginning of the season an agreement was reached with the council to limit the time slot reserved for sports tourism, which initially went from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., until 4:00 p.m. The objective was to free up more time for the training sessions of a club that, he maintains, has grown in recent years at the same pace as the municipality.
"At the beginning of the season, we agreed with the City Council that it would cut back the time slot designated for sports tourism until 16:00 h because we need more hours for all the teams to be able to train" - Tito Fornaguera, president of Atlètic Club Lloret
However, the club president states that in recent months the City Council has reversed that decision and that each week they receive email notifications informing them that they will not be able to use the field until 5:00 p.m. He adds that next week, from Monday to Friday, there will be four days on which they will not be able to train in the usual afternoon slot.
Thirty-eight practices suspended this season
Atlètic Club Lloret maintains that this season it has already suspended 38 training sessions to yield the field to outside teams. According to the entity, when this situation occurs there is no room to reallocate the groups because all time slots are already occupied and the field is full.
The club maintains that these cancellations are breaking the sports routine of the minors and that they also have an impact on the performance of the teams. Fornaguera assures that the parents are indignant because they sign their children up for soccer and, week after week, they find themselves with the cancellation of sessions prepared in advance.
"We do not reject sports tourism, but an balance must be found that does not harm the entities that work day by day" - Tito Fornaguera, president of Atlètic Club Lloret
The club will take the conflict to the next plenary session
The entity will present a motion for the situation to be debated in the next municipal plenary session. The objective is to demand immediate measures and force a review of the model for the transfer of the facilities in a segment they consider key for local grassroots sports.
Fornaguera insists that it is a municipal field and questions that its rental to foreign teams is prioritized over the use by the boys and girls of the municipality. He also maintains that, with a budget exceeding 100 million euros foreseen for 2026, the City Council can do without those revenues and stop commercializing that hour of use. The club president also states that numerous families want to attend the plenary session to express their rejection of a situation that, in his opinion, is directly harming the youth academy of Lloret de Mar.