‘The crazy shorties’ of the ball are back on the charge in Maspalomas

The recently retired from the stage Joan Manel Serrat He said “boy, stop fucking around with the ball” in his song ‘Esos locos bajitos’, but he might have removed those verses if he had to rebuild it with about 200 little great ball geniuses in front of him to do it. show their talent from this Tuesday, and until Thursday, on the green of Sports City of Maspalomas, in Gran Canaria. This scenario will host, as it happened in March, a new edition of LaLiga promises the Santander International Tournament in its winter version. It will be the 26th, making the tournament a world reference for children’s (Under-12) football. In total, 14 teams (10 from LaLiga and 4 foreigners) will participate in a total of 30 matches played in 7-a-side football mode by players born after January 1, 2010. Many of them can be considered like children of the stars Spain embroidered on his shirt at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and they dream of one day emulating the David Villa, Iker Casillas, Andres Iniesta and company.

The group stage, which begins this Tuesday morning at 11:00 (peninsular time) with a Marseille-Las Palmas, will be held between today and tomorrow morning. In total, 18 matches resulting from the following configuration of groups. In A is the boatThe MarseillesThe Legs and the UD the palms. In B, the Atletico MadridThe Juventus and the Valencia. In C, the Real MadridThe Borussia Dortmund and the Tenerife. And in D, the SevilleThe LiverpoolThe villarreal and the spanish. There will be two-part matches of 12 minutes each, broadcast on Gol, and two teams from each of the groups will reach the quarterfinals. Said round (in addition to the consolation matches played by the eliminated) will be played tomorrow afternoon and the semifinals (two halves of 15 minutes each), the third and fourth places and the grand final (two halves) will remain for Thursday. 20 minutes).