Peter Stastny: Somebody wants to make a profit on Arena 2011
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
“Somebody wants to make a lot of money by the development of the Arena 2011, where the 2011 IIHF WCH will be played.” said on today’s briefing of member of European Parliament Peter Stastny.
In his opinion the development of the modern sport hall is overcharging. The hall should be build less expensive. “We can build Superior stadium in 18 months for about 1,6 to 1,8 billion Slovak crowns. Mr. Juraj Siroky said, that we can compress the price for the Arena to 3 billions. But nowadays we are speaking about 4 billions.” said Peter Stastny.
According to his words slovak taxable will overcharge at at least 2 billions crowns. Former extraordinary hockey player warn that the stadium will serve only 100 days. “Big stadiums are expensive. Nobody will allow young hockeyists to train there. It will be only for big events and maybe for Slovan Bratislava or Slovak National Team. Besides that, such stadium needs also smaller ice rink for trainings.” he told. Stastny belives, that money should be used in other undersized realms.
“Somebody wants to create a time pressure. Somebody wants to sell to us Trabant for the price of Mercedes. I am afraid, that the quallity will be the quallity of Trabant, but the price will be much higher.” Stastny said.
At the same time he appealed on all privies - town of Bratislava, government and Slovak Ice Hockey Federation, to make the process of development transparent and in fair valuation. “Project should be already in progress. What have been done in last two years, when we know that we will stage the championship? What have been done in last four years, when we got a picture of the championships in our country?” Stastny is asking.
He admitted, that there are better places than Tehelne pole or Kalinciakova street in Bratislava, where the Arena 2011 should be build. “I am sure the Mayor of Bratislava wants the best for Bratislava and the championship should be staged here. But we should adjourn the World Championships rather than we let somebody to make a huge profit on the Arena 2011.” said Stastny.
Slovak Ice Hockey Federation reacts to Stastny’s proclamations:
Slovak Ice Hockey Federation - the organiser of the 2011 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship heared the proclamations of Peter Stastny. Mr. Stastny brought an accausation against unknown person, that is supposed to create the time pressure as gross up the price by the process of development of Arena 2011. Mr. Stastny is trying to discredit not just the representatives of SIHF, but also all privies like government, Ministry of School and Sport and Magistrate of Bratislava.
Slovak Ice Hockey Federations is guaranting that all his necessary steps by the development of Arena 2011 will be transparent, and will made everything to build the Arena 2011 on time for as least price as possible, so Slovakia will be able to stage the 2011 championships.
