“Panteras Prietas de San Basilio de Palenque Receives Support for Women’s Soccer Team”

The women’s team Panteras Prietas de San Basilio de Palenque will no longer work with their nails, because thanks to the publication of The universalwho unveiled this sports project with luxuries and details, it was possible to get support.

This squad, whose coach is Akin Bongani, will be linked to Iderbol, Bolívar Departmental Institute of Sports and Recreation. This support materialized days ago in a meeting that was held in the township of San Pablo Norte, which belongs to the municipality of Marialabaja, with the presence of several representatives of this community. Read here: Chronicle: the daughters of palenqueras who play soccer

“Panteras Prietas feels grateful and excited for everything that was achieved at the table. I have a great responsibility to my community because of the benefits that I can bring them by being in Iderbol. We need to strengthen ourselves in our sports activities and I will do my best to move the sport forward”, said the coach.

“Grateful to God for giving us the opportunity to be in this territory, we came to listen to them, to support them and to establish commitments that allow us to accompany them in their events of identity, tradition and culture. This was the second consultation table in favor of the Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenquera communities,” said Ariel Zambrano, manager of Iderbol.

The Pantheras Prietas will have the responsibility of leading the formation and missionary processes, not only in Palenque but also in the other raizal communities in the area; In addition, to discover the talents that exist in this area of ​​the department. It will have the full support of Iderbol and the Bolívar Football League.

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Panteras Prietas is a team that does not train on a suitable field, it does so in a pasture, where animals leave their waste, a situation that is repeated every day.

“We need help, supplies like balls, uniforms. Here in Palenque there is talent, we are showing it”, expressed at that time, Genny Luz Padilla Hernández, a player of this squad.

Some of the members of the school are daughters of the famous palenqueras.