[WATCH] Marsaskala to get its own football pitch

Marsaskala to get its own football pitch

A new football pitch will be built in Marsaskala, that will be used by the village football team and the general public alike.

The pitch will be built on undeveloped land near the Marsaskala family park and will cost around €1.5 million to construct, with the bill to be footed by government and the Malta Football Association.

It will be available for use by both the village football team –that plays in the fourth tier of Maltese football– and the general public.

During a visit to the family park, parliamentary secretary for sports Chris Agius recounted how the football pitch had initially been proposed as part of the original development plans at Zonqor Point.

The pitch proposal was shelved after Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced a smaller footprint for the ‘American Institute of Malta’ at Zonqor, with the rest of the campus located at Dock 1 in Cospicua.

Marsaskala FC had back then expressed its disappointment, arguing that Marsaskala lacks football facilities despite being home to around 20,000 residents.

The football club’s president Luke Spagnol hailed the project as “a dream that is becoming a reality”.

“Today is the day that we have all been waiting for,” he wrote on Facebook. “When I was a child, we always had this dream and it is now becoming a reality.”