València Cup Girls, launching youth football through formation and visibility
What better shuttle than a land that shows its confidence, its continuous action and its commitment to sportswomen? What better action than to add a grain of sand in the training of soccer players?
The València Cup Girls was created with the aim of becoming the main European women's youth soccer tournament. Its first edition will take place between June 27 and 30, 2021, seeking, as it cannot be otherwise, all the security protocols set by the authorities to ensure the health of the players, technical teams, organization and companions. A safe window for the development of formative football in times of Covid-19.
Tour-Sport and the Municipal Sports Foundation of Valencia City
The València Cup Girls, organized by Tour-Sport together with the Municipal Sports Foundation of the València City Council, is a tournament aimed at female teams for the youngest (from 9 to 19 years old). The event will take place in the last week of June, taking place on the football fields of the old riverbed of the Turia River..
The objective is to organize in the city of Valencia an international women's youth soccer tournament with the participation of national and international teams from the Valencian Community, although in this first edition, due to the health situation, the focus would be on Valencian autonomous teams and the rest of Spain.
Enriching experience
In any case, it will be an enriching experience for the soccer players, given the values that sport treasures, the moments of coexistence with players from different places or the very fact of giving value to the players, ensuring their training and visibility in the age segments that the tournament is based on. An event that, at the same time, has an important sports tourism component, although that aspect would be strengthened from the next edition with the pandemic left behind.
Professional tournament
However, it is also about holding a professional tournament. In this case, Tour-Sport values the experience and specialization acquired in 27 years carrying out tournaments and sporting events, being one of the forerunners of tourist sport in Spain. An example of this is the organization of the Costa Blanca Cup in Benidorm since 1994, which has involved the participation of athletes from 75 countries on five continents and the hiring of more than 600,000 direct hotel overnight stays.
Tour-Sport includes since the first edition of the Costa Blanca Cup, in 1994, the women's grassroots categories. The first registrations came in 1996 with the presence already then of a team from the United States. The growth since then has been exponential. Working on training and making women's football visible are a fundamental principle for this organization.
The mission of Tour-Sport is, in the end, to organize sporting events of an international nature and of great quality, in which the values inherent to the practice of sport are transmitted, in this case, football, especially among the youngest, while promoting the tourist sport of the Valencian Community.
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