Mallorca stadium revamp

Real Mallorca

football club’s new stadium will have one of the largest video scoreboards in Spain.

The newly revamped Son Moix ground, scheduled to be finished before the start of the 2024/25 season, will look completely different to now.

Major upgrades will include eliminating the athletics tracks that run around the pitch and placing the four modified grandstands much closer to the grass than they were originally, which will improve the experience for spectators.

But most spectacular of all will be the huge video scoreboard to be located at the north end of the stadium and measuring 22 metres wide by seven metres high, making it one of the largest in Spain. It will be mirrored in the south end by a smaller board measuring 13 metres wide by seven metres high.

The digital transformation does not stop there, as a whopping 200 screens and monitors will be installed throughout the stadium thanks to a three­way collaboration deal signed between the club and technology and communications giants Telefónica and LG.

Several of these screens will reportedly be tactile, allowing direct interaction between attendants at matches, and a digital sign especially designed for outdoors will also offer different types of content in all light conditions.

Son Moix was originally built in 1999 with a total capacity for 20,500 spectators. When the new stand is built, the stadium will gain more than 3,000 extra seats.

This is the most worrying result of the Balearic Youth Survey published last week by the regional government, which also revealed that the percentage drops to less than 10 per cent in the case of young women in the same age range.

Other surprising figures, obtained by questioning 3,000 young people throughout the Balearic Islands, show that 12 per cent of men do not believe that emotional blackmail is serious, compared to 5 per cent of women.

The survey consisted of 192 questions aimed at ascertaining the views, concerns and de­ mands of the islands’ youth in order to develop better public policies to improve their quality of life.

THE Reggaetón Beach Festival takes place in Can Picafort this weekend.

Billed as the largest event of its kind in Europe with stops at all major tourist destinations throughout Spain this summer, it is expected to draw up to 15,000 urban and Latin music fans for two full days on Saturday July 15 and Sunday 16. However, not everyone is looking forward to it.

Topics included housing, violence, health, culture, language, leisure, immigration and sexuality.

Regarding housing, the study revealed that around 40 per cent of young men and

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women who still live with their parents on the islands explained that this was due to the lack of available housing for them.

Only 34 per cent of youngsters between 15 and 34 in the region are able to live away from home, although one third admits to having problems paying the rent or mortgage and 70 per cent are forced to spend more than half their income on housing.

On the topic of immigration, the vast majority of those questioned do not believe that immigrant people have more privileges than those born in Spain, with less than 3.2 per cent believing that they have more facilities to find work or housing.

Regarding education and employment, the average age at which young people in the Balearics start working for a wage is 18.5 years old and mainly in the hospitality and commerce sectors.

On the issue of health, one in every three admit to drinking alcohol every week, but 65 per cent said they do not smoke cigarettes.