A center for the development of sports talents will be built by the government of Mexico at the Mexican capital with an investment of 6.0 million US dollars.

Rodrigo Gonzalez, Deputy Director of the National Commission of Sports (Conade), said Friday in Merida, Yucatan (east), that the center will count with a capacity to educate and provide attention to 3,000 athletes every year.

The facilities will be built between June 2005 and August 2006 in east Mexico City, based on a Spanish sports model.

Gonzalez is in Merida for the meetings of the Ibero-American Sports Council and of the American Sports Council.

The Superior Council of Sports of Spain put at the disposal of CONADE the blueprints of its own centers and the operational formats for Mexico to consider them in its own projects.

The models presented by Spain will be studied and Mexico will make use of what is possible, adapting it to the Mexican reality.

The construction of the sports center will demand a total investment of 6.0 million dollars, half in fiscal year 2005 and the rest in 2006.

In the new facilities it will be possible to practice 24 sports.

It was decided to build the Sports Center in Mexico City because the plots in question belong to CONADE and because it is connected to other Mexican cities.

Source: Xinhua