Vicente del Bosque, a former Spanish soccer coach, presented a new women’s tournament in the framework of the Madrid International Tourism Fair (FITUR) to be held in Calviá (Mallorca) in April and aims to promote “integration and sports values” . This is the latest initiative of the former Spanish coach and player, who has always been very involved in promoting women’s football.
After two and a half months, from June 23 to 27, the second edition of the international contest will also be held with special attention to a category for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities added to the existing prebenjamín, benjamín, alevín, infantil and legendary categories. more than forty years.
“These tournaments represent a massive promotion of tourism and sports activities, both axes of our municipality, and also include integration, something we want to take advantage of to be recognized as a quality destination of sports tourism,” said the mayor, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal.
To Vicente del Bosque these tournaments have the objective of “promoting integration and all training is for the benefit of children”.
“Today we see women’s football as normal because it is important, as well as integration. We want all children to participate and those with partial disabilities to be with us,” the world champion coach confessed in 2010 and Europe in 2012 with the Spanish team. .
From 2011 to the present, the Academy of Vicente del Bosque, which promotes sport as a tool for social change, has become a global sports training project in values with more than 13,500 athletes of 26 participating nationalities.
After five editions of the local tournament ‘Vicente Del Bosque First Mallorca Cup’, held from 2015 to 2019, the first edition of the international championship in June 2022 welcomed 56 people and close to 3,000 people related to the event .
For this year’s edition of the international tournament, the organization is planning more than a thousand overnight stays, of which 53% come from outside Spain, and which will join the 1,500 scheduled for April in the women’s championship.
Source: La Verdad
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