Sports milestones marked Monagas! Governor Ernesto Luna classified the year 2023 as historic for Monaco sports, with results that show the sum of 455 medals in different championships, the participation of more than 250 thousand young people in sports activities and the rehabilitation of 52 fields, through Inframonagas and the communal power.
Added to these achievements is the rehabilitation of the sports corridor made up of the El Furrial, La Candelaria, El Corozo and San Vicente sectors; thanks to the joint work of Seniat, the Government of Monagas and the Mayor’s Office of Maturín, with the aim of encouraging sports practice among the youth of the different communities in the west.
Under the same premise, Luna rehabilitated the sports corridor of the Alto de Los Godos parish, which includes the multi-use fields adjacent to Plaza Guanaguanay, the “Las Comunales” baseball stadium and the table tennis court complex, with the sights set on the new generation of Monaco athletes.
Sports milestones marked Monagas “Commitments fulfilled”
In response to the people’s requests, in 2023 multi-use fields were recovered in various sectors of Maturín, such as Sabana Grande, Las Cocuizas parish; Santa Elena de Las Piñas, Boquerón parish; Las Cayenas, Santa Cruz parish; La Puente, Alto de Los Godos parish; Julio Camino, El Furrial parish; as well as La Manga, Brisas del Orinoco and La Planta street, in the San Simón parish; and Amarilis, El Corozo parish.
In the sports works crystallized in 2023, Luna adds the recovery of the tennis court in the Juanico sector in Maturín, and the Jusepín baseball stadium, as well as the renovation of multi-use fields in the municipalities of Bolívar, Santa Bárbara, Aguasay, Libertador and Zamora; through the provision of inputs to organized popular power.
It should be noted that, in each rehabilitated field and stadium, the president delivered sports equipment for the practice of baseball, indoor soccer, basketball and volleyball.
Sports meeting on the Santa Elena de Las Piñas field between Governor Ernesto Luna and the local team
Sports center for everyone
In the effort to stimulate physical exercise and the health of the people, in December 2023 the field and the Paseo Generalísimo “Francisco de Miranda” were inaugurated at the Maturín Sports Center, as well as the first cycle path in Monagas and a complex of fields for practicing soccer and beach volleyball.
This work, designed for the enjoyment of the entire family, which in a very short time has become a place for daily recreation and recreation for hundreds of girls and boys from all the parishes of Maturín.
Likewise, the Government of Monagas invested great efforts in the comprehensive recovery of the Maturín Monumental Stadium, to turn it into the “Casa Vinotinto” of eastern Venezuela.
In a joint effort with the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF), the “Jewel of the East” was adapted to international standards, to receive the teams from Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador; in three electrifying full house matches, where Vinotinto finished undefeated in front of more than 52 thousand spectators.
Monagas of high sports performance
Under the motto “we are going to change everything” in 2023, from the Monagas State Sports Institute (Indem), in alliance with Transmonagas, 1,707 athletes from 21 sports disciplines were mobilized to 79 events, for an achievement of 169 gold medals, 152 silver and 134 bronze, totaling 455 medals, with greater scope in the disciplines of weightlifting, kenpo, swimming and wrestling.
Likewise, in 2023 a total of 87 Monaco athletes participated in national team camps and became Venezuelan ambassadors in different sports categories. The international achievements total 28 gold medals, 22 silver and 13 bronze, for a total of 63 medals that include 11 medals obtained by people from Monaco in the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Likewise, in 2023, programs such as “Olympic Hope” were promoted, aimed at recruiting and promoting potential boxing athletes in vulnerable sectors, and “I develop my skills” launched in five educational centers, for a total of 3,194 children and girls and adolescents served.
In a year of unprecedented achievements, the Department of Sports for All served nearly 160 thousand people in the 13 municipalities of the entity.
In 2023, Monagas achieved the formation of 250 sports clubs, as well as the activation of medical services: physiatry, therapy, cardiology, ultrasound, and general and internal medicine, where 1,926 athletes were treated.
In 2024, sport in Monagas began with excitement and faith, after the confirmation of Maturín as the venue for the first Vinotinto game, this year in the South American qualifiers, heading towards the 2026 World Cup dream.
In addition, this year, Monagas will seek to enter the top 5 states with the greatest sports participation, and will also have the challenge of becoming the sub-host of the 2024 National Youth Games.
View of the Maturín Sports Center Beach Club
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