Monday, in committee of the Brussels Parliament, the regional deputy MR Gaëtan Van Goidsenhoven worried about the lack of anticipation of the authorities in this file. USG, which joined the first division this season, is posting exceptional results for a promoted player. The club’s ambitions are high with a potential qualification for the next Champions League, if Felice Mazzù’s men continue their excellent momentum.
A perspective of long-term project sustainability
A stadium larger than that of Duden Park and its current 8,000 seats and in line with UEFA standards is necessary. Specificity of the Marien stadium: it is partly classified, which can complicate its renovation.
“If it is legitimate for the RUSG to seek to establish a new stadium in the Brussels Region, a parsimonious use of the ground should lead us to reflect on this hypothesis from a perspective of collective interest and long-term sustainability of the project. This perspective of collective interest implies thinking about the possible pooling of existing infrastructures, the diversity of uses and the opening of sports activities for the district as well.“, had replied this Monday Rudi Vervoort to the liberal deputy.
“The project should also be considered with regard to the requirements of the PRAS“, the Regional Land Use Plan. Hence the ongoing discussions.
Remember that during the renovation of the Marien stadium between 2016 and 2018, Union Saint-Gilloise, then in the second division (D1B) and which had become the property of English investors, was temporarily playing in the King Baudouin stadium in Heysel, an option not at all envisaged in current regional plans. That of a move to Drogenbos, in the Flemish periphery, is also not retained.
USG faces Club Brugge, current second in the league, on Thursday evening.
