Future Soccer Stars Go To New York

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

If someone wants to see the footballers who will one day play in a World Cup play live, they don't have to travel to Russia. All you have to do is go to New York this weekend

The now children who will eventually take over from the stars who will play the World Cup on Russian soil in a few days, will meet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the La Liga Promises international tournament, which brings together some of the teams of the world's most recognized players under 12 years of age.

The flower and cream of the quarries of prestigious clubs such as FC Barcelona, Real Madrid or Liverpool will face the banks of the Hudson River, in Hoboken, NJ, to decide who is doing a better job and enjoy football in state pure, away from the distortions of money and fame.

"Children in the Under 12 category are in the previous step to adolescence, they have already acquired technique and skills, but they still retain the freshness and spontaneity of childhood and that is why it is a tournament full of feelings and emotions," explained the director of corporate activation of La Liga brand, Cristina Sánchez.

Tournaments such as La Liga Promises are also interested in trying to discern which of the small footballers who play it will be the next Cristiano Ronaldo, Leo Messi or Mohamed Salah. It is not an exaggeration, since in the more than two decades that this competition has been organized, names have passed that are now part of the football legend.

Sánchez cites Gerard Piqué, Xavi Hernández, Fernando Torres, Cesc Fábregas and Andrés Iniesta, all world champions with the Spanish team in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The tournament was launched in 1992 thanks to the efforts of a well-known Spanish sports journalist, José Ramón de la Morena, who got television interested in broadcasting a competition among the children of grassroots soccer in the First Division clubs. of the Spanish League.

"The objective of then, which is still in force now," highlights Sánchez. "Value the background work that League clubs do in the formation of their quarries, where physical preparation is one more subject, along with effort, perseverance, respect and fair play, strategy, psychology emotional".

The clubs participating in this edition of the tournament in New York are FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, Villarreal CF, Valencia CF, RDC Español, Inter Milan, Benfica, FC Porto, Liverpool FC, JEF United, Club America, New York City FC, New York Red Bulls and Ironbound SC.

The ball starts rolling this Friday at 9 am Eastern time in Sinatra Park in Hoboken and does not stop until Sunday.