Grassroots football is at the center all weekend. Athletic, in collaboration with the Basque and Vizcaya Federations, is launching a Non-League Day on Saturday and Sunday, a “social initiative” aimed at highlighting the importance of youth clubs and encouraging attendance at local fields. This event takes place in conjunction with a weekend with no league competition.
Athletic is the first LaLiga club to undertake this initiative, already established in England. The beginning of this social experiment is James Doe, a London fan of Harrow Borough, a club in the Southern League (the English seventh category). It is currently a joint movement and has received widespread support from Premier League and Football League clubs, as well as parliamentarians, media, charities and the clubs themselves, according to Ibaigane. doe will participate this weekend in the first edition.
Eighteen agreed Athletic clubs will participate in this initiative, with 19 matches scheduled, fifteen for men’s teams and 4 for women. Leioa joined teams from both sections.
14 matches will be held in Bizkaia, 2 in Araba, 1 in Gipuzkoa, 1 in Nafarroa and 1 in Iparralde, “making the identity of the Athletic Club Made in Euskal Herria visible.” The club explained what it was looking for on Non-League Day, which is celebrated in the year of its 125th anniversary of its foundation: “It is an event that captures the sense of belonging that characterizes the Athletic Club and the indestructible its relationship with the youth team and the grassroots football in the territory of Euskal Herria.”
Throughout this week, Ibaigane published a report on each of the 18 participating clubs on its website. It contains its history, its significance throughout its 125 years of life and the players who, who have played in any of these team categories, have also played in the first red-and-white team. The entity found 198 football players who met both conditions. A large number. Athletic has 167 agreed clubs.
In addition, to encourage attendance at the fields, it donated to each agreed entity that will participate in the event two t-shirts, one for the men’s first team and one for the women, and two VIP tickets for the match against to Cádiz to be played in San Mamés. on Saturday, September 16, starting at two in the afternoon.
Source: La Verdad
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