Match Algarve – the €110 million state-of-the-art football village planned for the countryside near Bensafrim, Lagos – is expected to be up and running by 2016.
Dutch investors involved in the scheme have informed the Algarve Resident that “if all goes well, and if the Lagos municipal urban development plan (PDM) is approved by this summer”, the centre, which promises to be one of the best in Europe, will finally become a reality after years on the drawing board.
Readers may remember, the idea was first mooted by football manager Sven Goran Eriksson – but Lagos’ failure to approve a PDM has always been the stumbling block. Thus investors have taken the bull by the horns and approached deputy prime minister Paulo Portas.
With any luck, Portas’ office can pull some strings. As the investors affirm: “There is currently no other centre in Europe like Match Algarve. It will be unique in terms of its size, specialisation, privacy and climate.”
And the good news, too, is that it will be open to the local population.
