Cantabrian football will celebrate its centenary this year with a match between legends from Spain and Argentina, a new corporate image, several congresses and tributes, and the announced qualifying match for the 2024 Euro Cup between the senior national team against Cyprus on September 12.
In addition, the Cantabrian Football Federation requested the title of “royal”, as announced by its president, José Ángel Peláez, who also promoted that to commemorate one hundred years it was intended to call a match of the Cantabrian Football Team .
All these announcements were made in a ceremony held this Monday at the Palacio de Exposiciones before a wide institutional and soccer representation of Cantabria, where this year there will be 16,000 licenses in this sport, assured Peláez .
“We recently received a letter from the Royal House, they have received all the documentation and everything is correct. We hope that His Majesty the King will grant us the title of king,” he stated.
In addition, the logo of the Cantabrian Football Federation becomes red and white, like the colors of the Cantabrian flag, thus leaving the green and yellow that predominates until now.
The new corporate image also has more sober and modern lines and updated fonts. “It reflects the identity of Cantabria”, highlighted Peláez.
Among the events for the centenary, the National Football Congress stands out, on July 7, 8 and 9 at the European University of the Atlantic, in Santander, where the main names of this sport in Spain will meet, with the absolute coach , Luis de la Fuente, as one of the most relevant figures.
Santander will also host the International Strategy Congress, which will bring together representatives from FIFA and UEFA, and also the veterans match between Spain and Argentina, which will be held at Los Campos de Sport in El Sardinero at the start of September.
Then comes Spain-Cyprus and, at a date to be confirmed, the Cantabrian group will be called again. “We have very good players,” insisted the president of the regional federation.
As usual now, the Cantabrian Football Gala comes in November, but this year will be marked by the centenary of the Federation and with tributes as suggested by the journalist and football specialist from the region, Raúl Gómez Samperio, on the 28 founding club of the first soccer championship in Cantabria.
Finally, the Cantabrian Football Federation will tour the town halls of the autonomous community in the last months of the year to bring sports and clubs closer to the institutional level.
The President of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, emphasized during the ceremony that Cantabria is one of the regions that has contributed the most soccer players to the national team, as a total of 27 Cantabrians have worn his shirt. And that, according to him, is partly thanks to the Cantabrian Football Federation, which has been “very good” for a hundred years.
Accompanied by the Vice President and Minister of Sport, Pablo Zuloaga, the President of Parliament, Joaquín Gómez, or the Mayor of Santander, Gema Igual, Revilla conveyed his congratulations for this hundred years, “which are many”, and served to put together a Federation “with great activity” and behind which moves a whole world of football fans, “with all that it implies”.
Revilla, Zuloaga and Igual praised, among other things, the growth of women’s football in recent years, with almost 1,000 women’s records, and the arrival of the Cantabrian Athenea del Castillo in full.
In addition, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, congratulated the Cantabrian Federation in a video, referring, among other things, to the match that Spain will hold against Cyprus in September. “The fans will respond and they will be ahead of us”, he predicted.
He also appreciated the work “side by side” between the national and regional federations and highlighted that “this hundred years is just the beginning of a very good present and a better future for Cantabrian football”.
Source: La Verdad
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