On Saturday morning June 19, Torrevieja’s Mayor Torrevieja, Pedro Hernández Mateo along with the Sports Councillor, Daniel Plaza Montero returned to the new Sports City to inaugurate the ‘Nelson Mandela’, Stadium and to open the inaugural Torrevieja Rugby Seven’s Tournament. This impressive facility, costing around two million euros, has a capacity for 3,000 Spectators, the approval for international competition from the RUFA, an artificial grass pitch and is designed for multisports; rugby, football and cricket.

The Club de Remo de la Cofradía de Pescadores returned from the Spanish Championships in Denia on the last weekend of May as Champions of Spain, not a small honour for a very new rowing club from the City of Salt. On Thursday June 3, at USP San Jaime Hospital, one of the team’s sponsors, the team and their coach Moncho Ferrer, were honoured by Torrevieja’s minister of Sport Dani Plaza and the team has now a new goal of preparing for the World Championship in Istanbul.

This week Graeme Clark looks at the potential Group of Death

Torrevieja Cricket Club continue to go from strength to strength and hot on the heals of their win last week against local rivals San Fulgencio, they hosted their first Tour Team, in the shape of Lurgan RF & CC, from Northern Ireland on Friday. Due to the whistle stop nature of the tour itself, late arrival on Thursday night for example, the game started mid afternoon for a 20-20 game, more for fun than laurels, so with absolutely nothing at stake, both sides played out an entertaining game in front of a crowd of one!

In the run up to the year´s most eagerly awaited sporting event Graeme Clark looks forward to the tournament with his review of each of the eight groups of four. This week he casts his eye over Group B and gives his opinion on who will go through to the next round and who will be going home early.