The RFEF pays tribute to the children affected by the flooding with its Christmas card, created by a student from Benetússer.

‘When everything seems to fade away, there is always hope if we play as a team. The best triumphs are those that are achieved together’. This is the image chosen by the Royal Spanish Football Federation for its 2024 Christmas card with a very special background.

From an indoor football goal hang boots and Christmas decorations. In the centre is a spotted football on what looks like a blanket of clouds. And all around is the shapeless brown of the mud that ravaged the communities of Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha on 29 October, leaving a catastrophe in its wake from which thousands of families are trying to recover.

Following the sad events, the Royal Spanish Football Federation contacted one of the schools in the most affected areas. In collaboration with them, it reached the author of the chosen image. Eric Preda, a 4th year secondary school student from IES María Carbonell i Sánchez in the Valencian town of Benetússer is the author, chosen from dozens of proposals received by the RFEF, and which illustrate a feeling of solidarity together with the hopes of Spanish football for a year 2025 full of hope, excitement and peace.

Solidarity with the territories affected by the floods as well as with the families and entities that have lost everything makes up the commitment of Spanish football, brought into reality days after the tragedy through the Crisis Committee formed together with LaLiga and Liga F, the AFE and FutPro unions and the territorial federations affected, which continues to work to help rebuild the damaged sports facilities.