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.
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”.
In a pleasant day, Vicente del Bosque has visited for the first time the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar. During his stay in Manacor, the former national coach has known first hand the facilities where the Vicente del Bosque Summer Campus will be held, which will take place at the Academy from August 1 to 15.
Accompanied by the Director of the Academy Toni Nadal and by the commercial and marketing manager Maribel Nadal, Del Bosque visited the soccer field, the tennis courts, the Rafa Nadal International School and all the spaces that the children attending the Summer Campus will be able to use. “I had a little reference of what the facilities were, but the truth is that it has surpassed what I had seen in the television reports. Today is a nice day to see that our country, through a great athlete, can have magnificent facilities to serve as a base so that every day we have better kids in every way, personally and also in sports”. said Del Bosque.
During the course of the day, Vicente del Bosque also visited the Rafa Nadal Museum, which houses both the trophies won by Rafa Nadal and objects donated by some of the greatest sportsmen in history. Del Bosque donated a Spanish National Team jersey to the Museum, which is now on display in the soccer area of the Museum. At the end of the visit, Rafa Nadal shared a pleasant chat with Vicente del Bosque, whom he thanked for his involvement in the organization of his Summer Campus at the Academy.
To close his visit, Del Bosque shared his thoughts on the importance of training young people at this time of the year: “I am always concerned that we do things right, that we are a reference for the children, that we don’t do anything foolish and that we are very serious about guaranteeing that this is going to work well. We also have the great concern that the kids learn and have fun, but also that they have the maximum security, that nothing happens and that everything is under control and that they remember their time at our Academy with the greatest possible pleasure. In the summer time it is logical that we give them an alternative, it does not mean that soccer is the only way to train the kids, but it is a way to get closer to what is best for them. As parents, we see it permanently and we are aware that taking a child to a facility to play sports is always positive. Instead of being at home all day with video games, they are with their peers, they socialize, those who are a little more detached are making friends and I think it is a stage in their lives that they will always remember..
Mondelēz’s iconic cookie brand invites consumers to enjoy their favorite sports as a family and live unique experiences through three exceptional allies.
Fernando Morientes, Amaya Valdemoro and Carlos Moyá have become brand ambassadors.
This limited edition will include sports motifs on its packs and, for the first time, also on its cookies.
Encouraging an active and balanced lifestyle, as well as enjoying sports as a family to connect different generations and create memorable memories, is the goal of the new Príncipe Sports Academy. This initiative by Príncipe, the renowned cookie brand from Mondelēz International, has been joined by three fellow travel partners: the prestigious sports academies Vicente del Bosque Football Academy, Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar and Movistar Estudiantes Academy.
Thanks to the alliance with these three leading institutions in sports values training, consumers will have the opportunity to enjoy sports in a very special way with their families and with the help of great professionals. In this way, Príncipe seeks to unite different generations through sports, fostering family bonds, in the same way that its cookies invite families to share moments of happiness together, generation after generation.
“After two years collaborating with La Roja, this year at Principe we want to go a step further with respect to one of our brand purposes: trying to make families happy by uniting generations through sports. For this reason, the Príncipe Sports Academy not only aims to promote sport and physical activity in consumers’ day-to-day lives, but, thanks to sports academies with a wealth of experience, we also want families to be able to enjoy memorable experiences and strengthen their bonds while enjoying unique sporting environments.” saidFilipe Salsinha, Bakery Marketing Director Mondelēz in Iberia.
Through this new initiative, which will be available in Spain until November 30, the brand is raffling different experiences with its three partners to experience sports as a family at the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar in Mallorca, at the Movistar Estudiantes academy in Madrid or at Vicente del Bosque ‘s soccer campus in Mallorca. On the other hand, for the first time in its history, the iconic drawings printed on its cookies will include silhouettes of soccer, tennis and basketball balls randomly inside the blue packs. In addition, to give visibility to the initiative, approximately 6 million customized packs have been produced with exclusive designs of its emblematic prince in which he appears linked to sports and academies. In this way, Príncipe Sports Academy will be present in more than 90% of the brand’s portfolio, specifically in the varieties Príncipe Original, Príncipe Maxichoc, Príncipe Estrellas and Príncipe Minis.
It is worth recalling that the WHO insists on the need for countries and communities to take steps to provide more opportunities for all people to be active, in order to increase physical activity.[1] This requires a collective effort and its implementation in different sectors and disciplines. Príncipe is no stranger to this reality and, with the aim of promoting, enabling and encouraging physical activity among consumers, takes a step further into the territory of sports by creating the Príncipe Sports Academy.
For his part, Pau Albertí, director of the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy, said: “The Vicente del Bosque soccer campus has established itself as a benchmark in education and physical activity that promotes sports and values such as friendship, integration and companionship. We hope that this collaboration with Príncipe Sports Academy will continue along this path and, above all, will serve to unite families around the practice of sports”.
To make itself known, the Príncipe Sports Academy will also have great ambassadors from the world of sports such as Carlos Moyá, Fernando Morientes and Amaya Valdemoro, who will encourage families to practice sports together and participate in this activation.
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Next Wednesday, January 24the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy Management will be present along with Mr. Vicente del Bosque to the International Fair Fiturin Madrid, to be presented at the stand of the Balearic Islands, together with the president of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens and the mayor of Calvià, Juan Antonio AmengualThe events that the Academy will celebrate one more year in the municipality of Calvià, Mallorca.
From 2011 to the present, the Vicente del Bosque Football Academy has become a worldwide project for sports training in values, with more than 15,500 athletes of 26 nationalities participating. After five editions of the local tournament “Vicente Del Bosque First Mallorca Cup” that has been held from 2015 to 2019, and the second international edition last April and June 2023 in which 96 teams from 8 countries and nearly 3,000 people between players, coaches, staff, families and fans have participated.
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The meeting is scheduled at 10:45 am at the Balearic Islands Stand.
The meeting will be followed by a press conference. More information at https://mallorcafootballcup.com
