Funding for everyone, or almost. Not for him, who won "at least once all the most important ocean regattas in which I participated". Andrea Mura, skipper of Vento di Sardegna, the boat with the Quattro mori license plate, entrusts social networks with the angry disappointment of having been excluded from the contributions that the Region pays in full hand to numerous sporting activities.

«A year ago», says Mura, «I sent the request for funding for the ambitious “Vento di Sardegna” project, with dizzying media numbers on the international promotion of my land».

The goal is to participate in the "Global Solo Challenge", the single-handed sailing regatta around the world without assistance and non-stop, which will start on September 3 from La Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, always arriving in La Coruña after 4 months of circumnavigation of the globe.

Mura provides the numbers: 55 subscribers from all over the world, 120 days of non-stop navigation around the world, «of which 60 to be spent circumnavigating Antarctica, broadcast on 190 television stations divided into 102 nations, as well as on board the news most important airlines in the world and with satellite connections in streaming during navigation, for an unprecedented media value». In short: the whole world, for Mura, would see the four Moors and would know the name "Sardinia".

«I've been preparing for a year for the toughest sporting challenge ever», accuses the skipper, « I would be the first Sardinian in history to circumnavigate the planet solo in a regatta, proof that Sardinians are sailors, in a land where the dangers they always came from the sea». But nothing: there is funding for more niche competitions, but not for him.

«For 2023 the Region has financed a multitude of sports activities with a budget of over 40 million euros of public money. I am very happy with the investment in sport», underlines Mura, «but I would like to know why my project was excluded, since it is an unprecedented sporting enterprise on a global level».

He risks not being able to register but, he warns, " the autonomous region of Sardinia is losing the greatest opportunity for global promotion in its history".

Henry Fresu

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