Africa-Press – Angola. The Tundavala National Stadium will benefit from an amount still to be determined, to be made available by the Government this year, for the rehabilitation and installation of an athletics track.
The financial package is included in the State Budget and will bring for the first time the long-awaited track to the modality, which is one of the priorities of the Provincial Office of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports of Huíla.
The information was given last Tuesday by the stadium’s director, Osvaldo Lunda, who, despite not having stipulated a date for its execution, stressed that the implementation depends on the allocation of funds by the Ministry of responsibility.
For the athletics track, he said, there is already funding of 50,000 euros granted by the Greek Government, for the massification project “Okuhateka”, by former long-distance runner Ana Isabel Elias.
As for the works, in general, he highlighted the rehabilitation of cabins, press stands, elevators, changing rooms, change of scoreboards (clocks), press booth, lockers in the changing rooms, which will be changed from wood to metal.
“If the amount is available in the account at the Ministry, it will make a public tender for the admission of the contractor, because CAF guides that the Stadium must be modernized periodically”, he alluded.
The stadium inherited the name of one of the biggest tourist destinations in the province, the seventh Maravilha da Fenda da Tundavala, after a public tender for the attribution of a designation in which 112 proposals competed. The Stadium, with a capacity for 20 thousand spectators, is built in an area of 25 thousand and 807 square meters, with a budget of 69 million dollars. The works were carried out by the Chinese construction company “Sinohydro Corporation LTD”.
It has 20 bathrooms, an equal number of VIP rooms, two electrical substations with a capacity of 15 thousand kV (kilovolt), a presidential room, a press stand, four changing rooms for players, two rooms for coaches and an equal number for referees.
It has seven medical posts for the public, players and VIP guests, 14 stores, a restaurant and a parking lot for 2,000 vehicles. The lighting is fixed in a metallic structure composed of 408 spotlights of two thousand watts each.
There are also control and lighting rooms for the venue, television, press and journalists with capacity for 65 to 200 people, respectively, among other components. The realization of such a project would minimize the lack of this fundamental element for the development of the sport in Angola.
It is recalled that the Tundavala Stadium was one of the “failed” by the African Football Confederation (CAF), after failing the current technical conditions, one of the venues suggested by Sagrada Esperança, as Angolan representative in the group stage of the League of Clubs African champions of the sport, along with Petro de Luanda. Instead, the governing body of continental football agreed for the two teams to play their matches at Estádio Nacional 11 de Novembro.
However, CAF recommended the FAF and clubs to improve the changing rooms, the VIP stand as well as the stands at Estádio 11 de Novembro, so that the Lundas and Tricolores can host games as hosts.
In the same vein, after the exhaustive inspection process, the CAF, according to the technical director of the Angolan Football Federation (FAF) José Neves, “failed” the Coqueiros and 22 de Junho stadiums, both in Luanda.
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