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The Castellón headquarters starts the countdown to the Women’s Handball World Cup

MADRID, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Royal Spanish Handball Federation and Castellón presented the city this Friday as one of the venues for the Women’s Handball World Championship that Spain will host from December 1 to 19, with which the countdown to the celebration of the event begins.

“A few months ago we made a big draw for this World Championship and today we put the mascot and the countdown of the first Women’s World Cup. I want to congratulate the mayor of Castellón, Amparo Marco, for her involvement in this project. I wish we had mayors and mayors that they fight so hard to position the sport but, above all, to position women, “said Francisco V. Blazquez during the event, in statements provided by the RFEBM.

The leader remarked that Castellón “is a city that is expanding more and better” and that they are going to celebrate “a dream for all women’s sports.” “We are 33 days away from the start of this long-awaited World Cup, and this city is one of the cities that has been most involved from minute zero,” he said.

Thus, Blázquez praised the “commitment and involvement” of the City Council to ensure that the city “is recognized and positioned worldwide through women’s sports.” “As a defender of women’s and women’s sports, I wish we had people who would think about it to take those important steps that we have to take in our society,” he remarked.

For her part, the mayor of Castellón, Amparo Marco, acknowledged her “pride in being the venue for the first time of a tournament like this, which will bring together the world elite of women’s handball in the Ciutat de Castelló pavilion.”

The mayor highlighted the municipal commitment to sports “for its great contribution to improving the quality of life, socio-economic reactivation and, especially, for its ability to project outstanding values ​​in society such as effort, improvement or companionship.”

In addition, he did not forget that the event can serve as a “platform for equality” and that with its celebration in the city they contribute “to the visibility and recognition of women’s sport” by offering the children of Castellón “women who are world leaders in sport. “.

Along with Blázquez and Marco, at the event, held in the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol, were also the Councilor for Sports of Castellón, Omar Braina; and the director of the Organizing Committee of the World Championship of Spain 2021, Jaume Fort.

Presiding over this central stage of the city was the giant totem of ‘Lola’, the official mascot of the World Championship and the one in charge of showing the countdown to the event, activated by the mayor of Castellón herself.

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