Rafael Louzán at the Lanzarote International Cup: “Football is what unites us”
This Friday the president of the RFEF took part in the tournament’s presentation event for a competition which, from 18 to 22 June, will bring together more than one hundred youth teams on the Canary Island
For the second year in a row, the island of Lanzarote will become the epicentre of national and international youth football with the staging of its International Cup, presented this Friday at the RFEF headquarters.
The event at the Ciudad del Fútbol brought together illustrious figures from the world of football such as players Antonio Guayre and Jonathan Sesma or international referee Alejandro Hernández Hernández, who was born on the island of Lanzarote.
It was up to the president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, to deliver the welcome speech during which he thanked organisers and authorities for the work carried out to make this tournament a reality, because “football is what unites us and, in this case, the tournament will make use of almost all the island’s facilities. I wish you much success and thank you on behalf of all Spanish football for taking a chance on a major sporting event of this magnitude and bringing together different institutions and social sectors. Best of luck, I hope it goes really well and I look forward to seeing it for myself,” he said.
The Lanzarote International Cup is committed to sustainability and to educating participants in the values of football
Louzán also presented a personalised Spanish national team shirt to the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Oswaldo Betancort, who thanked the RFEF for their welcome, as did councillor Juan Francisco Monzón, the Deputy Minister of Physical Activity and Sports for the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Luis Sabroso, and Pedro Cabrera, head of the tournament’s organisation, also promoted by the president of the Canary Islands Football Federation, José Juan Arencibia, who also attended the presentation event.
This second edition of the Lanzarote International Cup will bring together more than one hundred national and international teams between 18 and 22 June, with almost two thousand players in the benjamín, alevín and infantil categories,the latter being added for this edition.
It is estimated that Lanzarote will receive more than six thousand visitors connected to the tournament during its celebration at fourteen venues across the length and breadth of an island that is committed to sustainability in hosting an International Cup that, in the words of its organisers, “is played in the most beautiful stadium in the world”, which is the island of Lanzarote itself.
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