Filenews 2 July 2023 - by Dora Christodoulou
G.S. Koroivos, the old stadium of the city, is still in limbo regarding the declared goal of upgrading and modernizing it in a way that will become a hive of sports activity of the local community and not a carcass of past eras as it has been in recent years.
Sports and social bodies of the city and province are promoting anew the idea of transforming the historically charged space into a hive of activities that will be open to the local community, instead of only the school to which it belongs spatially. These bodies stress that Pafos is one of the provinces lacking in sports infrastructure, since there is only one indoor sports hall with basic modern infrastructure, there are no tennis courts, and there is a football field that is practically not accessible to people who would like to exercise.
The stadium in the city centre, which for decades was synonymous with football in Paphos and with Evagoras and APOP, with the right design, can be the Municipal Sports Centre of Pafos, these factors stress. Tennis, basketball, a football field that can be converted into small football fields, a perimeter track for classic sports and a small cafeteria for recreation can be created, they argue.
All this can be done without the Municipality and the state wasting a lot of money, they point out, while in addition the General Assembly of Koroivos has the advantage of being located in the city center, so it can be used not only by schools as until now, but also by many people, resulting in the center of Pafos regaining its former glory and bustling with life.
