The MALLORCA INTEGRA FOUNDATION AND VICENTE DEL BOSQUE FOOTBALL ACADEMY extend their agreement signed in 2021 between both entities by creating a SOCCER AND MULTISPORT TECHNICAL TRAINING PROGRAM aimed at people with intellectual functional diversity for the 23/24 season.
In addition to the general objectives that form the DNA of each entity and in which they share values, both entities want to achieve with this program to facilitate access to the practice of soccer and other multisport activities adapted to the needs and interests of users with intellectual functional diversity, offering a quality and specific sports activity.
Aurora SampolFMI Management: “With this new program we seek that the athletes of the Mallorca Integra Foundation have new experiences with other athletes and young sports enthusiasts belonging to the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy, sharing education in values through soccer and all the activities that are developed together”.
For their part, the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy coaches will organize monthly technical and training sessions in which players from both entities will be able to share values, experience and methodology adapted to the needs of the participants.
In addition to these days, they will also offer other experiences of coexistence with the members of the academy and the Foundation during the season, such as the Summer Campus and the Mallorca International Football Cup-Vicente del Bosque Tournament, among others.
Pau AlbertíAcademy Director;“VICENTE DEL BOSQUE FOOTBALL ACADEMY will have the opportunity to add in its path towards the integral formation of young athletes, beyond collective or individual sporting success, this school of values in which we will work on awareness, inclusion and the way forward to offer a quality sport for all”.
For more information: Vicente Del Bosque Academy: pau.alberti@vicentedelbosqueacademy.com Mallorca Integra Foundation: asampol@fundaciónmallorcaintegra.org
Fundación Mallorca Integra was born in 2018 with the aim of being an entity that stirs consciences, of references, close and consolidated that fulfills its social commitments. Through our projects we want to contribute to improving the conditions and quality of life of the people we serve. Our mission is to promote their social and personal integration and we want to achieve this by offering quality sports and leisure time, training experiences adapted to the interests of people, support in the transition to adulthood and raising awareness in our environment. We know that we cannot fulfill our mission alone and, for this reason, we strive to create alliances and network with companies and other entities in our environment.
It should be recalled that the Mallorca Integra Foundation received last year’s first prize for Sport and Values Vicente del Bosque.
The presentation of the Vicente del Bosque Campus 2017 on Wednesday, May 31 at the Gran Vía Casino in Madrid kicked off the event that will be held in Madrid, Mallorca, Ibiza, Estepona and Salamanca this summer, along with new venues in Ciutadella (Menorca) and Denmark.
The Vicente del Bosque Campus will take place between June 26 and July 28 and will host more than 1,000 boys and girls between 6 and 17 years old. The event was attended by the former national coach and world champion Vicente del Bosque, the official sponsors, sports press and the technical director of the Campus, Pau Albertí.
The opening ceremony and presentation took place at the prestigious Casino de Gran Vía in Madrid, where Don Vicente del Bosque presented the details of this year’s edition, in which young athletes will have the opportunity to enjoy the Campus for the fifth consecutive summer.
After the success achieved in recent years with more than 5,000 children under the supervision of Don Vicente del Bosque in this great project of present and future confirms his presence in the month of July to share a day with all participants of the campus.
Students between the ages of 6 and 17 will take part in the activity from June 26 to July 28, 2017.
This summer the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy technical team will arrive at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar to offer for two weeks a unique program of soccer, languages and multisport activities in incomparable facilities. The Summer Camp Vicente del Bosque has been created so that true soccer lovers can combine their passion while improving their level of English or Spanish with experienced native teachers. The program will run for two weeks, August 1-8 and August 8-15, 2021.
The Summer Camp Vicente del Bosque aims to combine education and physical activity through sports, promoting values such as friendship, integration and companionship, objectives that are shared with the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar. For the development of the sports program, this campus will have a qualified and highly qualified technical team that will be under the supervision of the former National Team Coach, Don Vicente del Bosque.
In addition to promoting the practice of soccer, those attending this Summer Campus will also have the opportunity to practice multiple sports disciplines such as tennis, paddle tennis, basketball, swimming or water activities with the best monitors and in incomparable sports facilities.
Simultaneously to practicing sports, participants will also improve their level of English or Spanish with daily classes taught by the teaching staff of the Rafa Nadal International School, an international bilingual school located in the same facilities of the Academy.
The Vicente del Bosque Summer Camp will be a unique opportunity for sport, fun, leisure and values to come together in a campus where young people from all over the world will live together.
The Academy’s facilities have been equipped to comply with the safety and hygiene protocols established by the health authorities. Thanks to the synergy with Quirónsalud (the Academy’s healthcare partner), the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar has been considered by the press and international institutions as a success story and an example in terms of safety and trust thanks to its management during the health crisis caused by COVID-19. It has also obtained the “COVID-19 by Quirónsalud Safe Protocol” seal issued by Applus+, which accredits the quality and efficiency of the Academy’s work processes to guarantee the safety and well-being of all its players.
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.
“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”.
