It looks like Valencia has been left out of Spain’s revised and likely final list yesterday of having 11 venues for the upcoming 2030 FIFA World Cup tournament amid uncertainty about the Nou Mestalla venue that is still not yet finished at 50% capacity since construction was halted back in around 2009 due to financial issues & yet still no word when they will resume today.
Spain wanted to make it 13 including Valencia where the stadia would finally be up and running after all this time but then Portugal and Morocco ain’t having it.
There was hope last Friday that the work on finally getting Nou Mestalla done will re-start within the next six months with a revised target of around 30 months before Valencia CF would finally move their home games there, which is two and a half years from now between late 2024/early 2025 to mid-2027 perhaps if that’s the case.
If the dispute of not getting construction re-started goes on unless they can come up with an even bigger excuse for everyone to accept, then there will be penalties to apply against the club – that’s it as it’s now or never for Nou Mestalla.
Otherwise, the city will have no other choice but to have it completely taken down into something else and the area can finally move on from the mess without the club itself.
Let’s hope the Nou Mestalla half-finished saga gets resolved sooner rather than later and it’s up to Valencia CF and its owners I guess where they’ve haven’t been the same glorious club as it once was before back in the early 2000s. We’ve seen the same thing happening in the past with St. Petersburg’s Krestovsky Stadium when it took around a decade to finally have their new stadium being built in time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup back then, why can’t Nou Mestalla regardless of its 2030 WC fate?
Time will tell following Valencia’s latest elimination from the 2030 World Cup list yesterday soon enough.
