From the organization of the Vicente Del Bosque Campuswe would like to inform youthat our concern for the health situation worldwide is evident as well as to all of you, first of all, we hope that the family and your closest environment are well.
For us, the health and safety of all children is paramount, and in view of the events, we wanted to tell you that we continue working with the hope of being able to celebrate the VIII edition of the Campus Mallorca Vicente Del Bosque (June 22 to July 31, 2020) as we all wish.
Therefore, we would like to provide you with a new update on the situation we are in regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. If the deadlines being handled by the Health Authorities and the Governments are met, in May the social isolation measures should be ending and throughout the month of June normality would be recovered both in work, social and sporting activities. But we must confirm that all this is so, that these deadlines are met and that we have all the guarantees to be able to celebrate the Campus Vicente Del Bosque 2020 in Mallorca, since we cannot run any risk that endangers the health of all the participants and their families. Therefore, we are going to take into account, as is logical, the advice of the WHO and the Ministry of Health.
You can find all the updated information of the Campus Mallorca Vicente Del Bosque 2020 on the website with the following link that is available since February, before the start of the state of alarm on March 14. https://vicentedelbosqueacademy.com/mallorca/
Finally, we cannot be oblivious to the current situation and we must act accordingly. Therefore, the Campus organization is in contact with the competent local authorities to inform with official communiqués in the coming weeks and working on various alternatives, prevention measures and security protocols to be able to offer to the families when everything gradually returns to normal.
We hope this information is to your liking and we remain at your disposal to clarify any doubts you may have.
Thank you in advance for your attention and best regards.
Vicente del Bosque, former coach of the Spanish National Team, presented today, together with Banco Santander, the “Vicente del Bosque Football Academy”, accompanied by José Luis Martínez-Almeida, Mayor of Madrid, and José Manuel Franco, President of the Superior Sports Council. The event took place at the Santander Work Café in Paseo Recoletos in Madrid and was also attended by illustrious soccer players such as former players Fernando Morientes, Juanfran and Luis Figo; the coach José Antonio Camacho; the president of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, as well as authorities such as the mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez, representing one of the six most emblematic venues of the campus, which this year reaches its thirteenth edition.
Vicente del Bosque, who said he was proud to continue promoting “the formation of values” in soccer through his academy, took the opportunity to launch a message in favor of current coach Luis de la Fuente, despite yesterday’s defeat by Scotland to Spain. “We must not intoxicate,” he assured. “De la Fuente knows Spanish soccer well. Advise him? I wouldn’t say anything to him. He is the best coach for Spanish soccer, the best candidate to lead the national team.” Of the situation between clubs, Del Bosque highlighted, especially, Real Madrid’s role in the Champions League. “It is the top candidate to win it. It has shown a consistency that is impossible to beat”.
The former coach also reflected on the situation involving the refereeing collective in Spanish soccer these days to ensure that “I say this with much regret. It is a very uncomfortable situation for Spanish soccer from which no one benefits. The loss of soccer’s reputation is a very bad thing and we can’t go around with jokes of this kind. It is a delicate moment because soccer should have the best reputation and that is why I talk about LaLiga Genuine Santander because it humanizes everything a little more”.
Vicente del Bosque explained the importance of “human relations” in soccer and how “coaches are getting better every day, which benefits the kids” and said he felt nervous about the premiere of the campus three months before its inauguration in Mallorca and Madrid, as the first venues. In this regard, José Luis Martínez-Almeida stressed that “it is an obligation of the city council to encourage the practice of sports and a campus like this is important for young people to leave the tablet and practice more sports.
The Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy is a consolidated and reference project, based on education and physical activity to promote sport and its values, with more than sixteen years of experience, and with the main headquarters in Calvià, Mallorca, as its flagship. Madrid also heads the list of the six locations of this Summer Camp, together with Cadiz, Estepona, Aragon and Salamanca, and with the novelty of a women’s tournament from April 6 to 9 in Calvià. In addition, Mallorca will once again hold the second edition of the MIFC, Mallorca International Football Cup, from June 23 to 27.
Don Vicente Del Bosque, ambassador of LA LIGA from 2019 in programs promoted by this organization, signs an agreement for the new initiative “Mallorca International Football Cup” organized by Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy.
LaLiga wishes to collaborate with Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy in the organization of the sporting, touristic and integrating event “Mallorca International Football Cup”, represented by Vicente del Bosque, and to this end will formalize its collaboration through the signing of a collaboration agreement with the Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy, adding this event to its calendar of annual participation activities.
LaLiga promotes programs of activities of an institutional, cultural, educational and social nature, with the aim of transforming society with the positive values of soccer, and the “Mallorca International Football Cup” event organized by the Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy meets these requirements for LaLiga.
The players of the Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy have enjoyed a very pleasant morning at the Rafa Nadal Academy facilities. Upon arrival, the participants have taken the temperature and registration along with the delivery of the commitment of responsibility sheet signed by parents at the request of the Rafa Nadal Academy. Subsequently they have been divided into four subgroups to adapt to current regulations in order to perform the activities safely.
The boys and girls of the academy have arrived excited to the Rafa Nadal Sports Centre facilities to live and share first hand the Rafa Nadal Experience visiting the museum and the Rafa Nadal Academy & Sports Centre facilities. At the same time that some components of the subgroups made the visit, others made a training session on the 7-a-side soccer field that is in the center. The final touch came when the members of the academy were surprised with a visit from Rafa Nadal, immortalized in a family photo, which they will keep with great affection.
The organization of Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy wanted to thank Rafa Nadal and his team for their hospitality and welcome at the Rafa Nadal Academy & Sports Centre facilities and to make this unforgettable experience possible for the members of the Vicente Del Bosque Football Academy.
“I want you to take advantage of soccer to become better,” advises the former Spain coach to the participants in his campus.
“If you don’t dominate the ball, it’s a bad thing…” It was one of the lessons taught by Vicente del Bosque at the opening of his first campus in the cradle of soccer, at the Rayners Lane FC ground in London, in front of eighty boys and girls who proudly wore the shirt of his academy.
“It’s very difficult to get there, but I’m not telling you to stop dreaming,” stressed the “best coach in the world” (awarded as such by FIFA in 2012, after winning the World Cup and the European Championship). “What I want is for you to use soccer as a tool to become better: I don’t know if we’ll be able to make good players out of you, but we’ll make good kids.
“We are coming to London to internationalize our work,” admitted Del Bosque. “And to show in passing that soccer has no borders, even if some people want to put them up again.”
The three-day campus is open to children of all nationalities, but the presence of the “Spanish quarry” has been more than guaranteed through the Cañada Blanch Soccer School, directed by Tomás Ruiz, who acted as presenter at the well-attended ceremony, along with campus director Pau Alberti.
“We are facing a global project that finally arrives in London, after a delay forced by the pandemic,” explained Tomás Ruiz. “Vicente del Bosque not only symbolizes the success of our soccer, but also a way of working, embodied since 2011 in the academy that bears his name and where sports and values training go hand in hand”.
“Soccer teaches you to be generous”, was another of the “lessons” of the maestro Del Bosque, who emphasized that in the “campus” there is no competitive pressure and that what prevails is precisely “friendship with the ball” (technique) and team play, including parents. “Tactics will come later,” stressed the former national team coach, a standard bearer of restraint and balance from the bench.
“There is no single model, but I believe that in soccer it is very important to control emotions,” explained Del Bosque with his usual parsimony. “Although sometimes I see my reaction to Iniesta’s goal, like shrinking and clenching my fists, and I don’t know if I could have celebrated it in any other way…. It fills me with pride to see our heroes, like Xavi or Xabi Alonso, now become coaches”.
About the new national coach, Luis de la Fuente, it is enough for him to say that he is his “friend” and that he hopes he can get the best out of the new generation of the “reds”, despite the puncture in Qatar… “Winning a World Cup is something very difficult, which also requires a touch of luck: we had it in South Africa”.
“Without the victory, nothing is the same,” concluded Del Bosque, in a final lesson in realism. “I probably wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t won the World Cup (…) The truth is that I ended up being a professional coach due to the vicissitudes of life. For 17 years, my job was in the Real Madrid youth academy: working with the youngsters and knowing how to attract them. And to make sure that the best moments of their lives are associated with soccer”.
