Nearly eight years after the assault and disappearance of 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, an event in which the football team was also attacked Chilpancingo HornetThe club is trying to renew its court.

club president, Sergio Alcaraz Soberanisreports that the Guerrero government is complying with the renovation of the artificial turf pitch on which the squad plays, while acknowledging that much remains to be done by players and fans alike to justify the need for such renovations.

This Saturday, the Hornets will play their presentation game at home, as a second division team, against a team from Michoacán.

“The first step is to do the field and governor (Evelyn Salgado) support us in that, now we have to show and the fans go, because it’s useless to have a stadium for 15,000 if 4,000 go,” Alcaraz Soberanis said last Thursday, at the end of the uniforms handover ceremony to the Hornets.

With the passage of the Hornets into the Premier League (second division), the Mexican Football Federation (femexfut) asked the team to make a series of adaptations to their stadium as a requirement.

Among these adaptations are high-quality artificial turf, increased bench capacity and improved dressing rooms.

From this adaptation, the state government initially supported the installation of artificial turf. Authorities promised to finish before this Saturday.

As of this week, the Sports Center, where the Hornets pitch is located, was closed for renovations.

“So that the government can invest in the next part, You should see if that’s enough; For that, we invite the public to fill the stadium, “said Alcaraz Soberanis.

Currently, the stadium stands with a capacity of 4 thousand people. Femexfut’s requirement for a second division team is to have a minimum capacity of 14,000 participants.

The pitch the Hornets play on and the pitch they are looking to renovate named after David Josue Garcia Evangelista, a 13 year old boy who was murdered on September 26, 2014, the night that organized crime and police forces removed 43 normalists from Ayotzinapa. The Hornets bus was returning from a game in Iguala when the athletes were attacked with bullets.

The Hornets’ debut in the Premier League tournament was last week in Cancun, Quintana Roo, where neither team scored.

Last Thursday, the official uniform the Hornets will wear in the tournament was delivered.

The ceremony was attended by Alma Rocío López Bello, director of the Guerrero Sport Institute (Indeg); the first lawyer of the Chilpancingo guardian, Andrei Marmolejo, and on behalf of the governor, the secretary for Development and Social Welfare, Maricarmen Cabrera Lagunas.

This text was originally published in Poppy Journalism.