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Atlético To Pay $46.5M Up Front To Ensure Completion Of Transportation Infrastructure

Atlético Madrid will pay €44M ($46.5M) "up front to ensure that the transport infrastructure" around its new Wanda Metropolitano stadium is completed "in time to play games there next season," according to Dermot Corrigan of ESPN.com. There have been "concerns about access for fans to the 70,000-seater stadium," with opposition city councilor Mercedes Gonzalez "joking" in September that helicopters would be needed to "bring supporters to the new ground as road and rail links would not be ready." Club CEO Miguel Ángel Gil Marín said that the club "would put forward" a total of €44M to pay for the required road links, parking provision and landscaping -- although it would "then receive about half this amount back from the Madrid city council." Gil Marín: "This will be the minimum infrastructure required to get the license to hold sporting events in the stadium. Of this €44 million, around €20 million ($21.1M) will be taken off the price of the site." Work on these links will begin in March (ESPN.com, 2/25).

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