Amputee Football Champions League 2022: Estepona Makes History as First Spanish Host City

The mayor of Estepona (Málaga), José María García Urbano and the president of the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF), Matteus Vitlatel, inaugurated this Friday the IV edition of the Amputee Football Champions League, which is being held in Estepona until Sunday, November 12. Thus, the town becomes the first Spanish city to host the final phase of this continental competition that will feature the participation of eight teams from as many European countries as the United Kingdom, France, Georgia, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Turkey and Spain. The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, explained that, by holding this competition, the City Council contributes to promoting and giving visibility to this sport, one of the most soccer youth. Likewise, he has highlighted the municipal efforts to promote a more inclusive city with a higher quality of life. In addition to being an event that aims to integrate people with disabilities through sports, the Champions League Football for amputees has a great promotional impact worldwide, since UEFA is one of the entities that are part of its organization. In this practice, two teams of seven footballers, six field players and one compete on the field. goalie. Field players have a lower limb amputation and goalkeepers have an upper limb amputation. They all use crutches and play without their prostheses. After the draw was held on October 5, the teams were divided into two groups. Specifically, group A: The top seeded team will be the host CD Flamencos Amputados (Spain). The rest will be Sporting AMP FC (Italy), Dila (Georgia) and Wisla Kraków (Poland); and group B: The seed will be Etimesgut Amputee Sport Club (Turkey). The rest will be Paris FC (France), Bohemians (Ireland) and Portsmouth Amputee FC (United Kingdom). The team that will represent Spain is the CD Flamencos Amputados Sur, which has its roots in the province of Malaga. The matches will be played at the Francisco Muñoz Pérez stadium and also at the municipal Athletics Stadium. Admission to the public will be free throughout the weekend. The host team, CD Flamencos Amputados Sur, will be in charge of opening the competition, which will face Dila Gori, from Georgia. Seven more matches will be held on Friday, with the last one at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, in the morning and starting at 10:30 a.m., the group stage will close with the last round of matches to be held later and in Afternoon schedule, play the two semifinals, in which the first two classified in each group will face each other (1A vs 2B and 1B vs 2A). Already on Sunday, the matches will take place to elucidate the classification (from third classified to eighth). . They will be played at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., respectively. The final of the tournament will be on the same Sunday, from 7:00 p.m., at the Francisco Muñoz Pérez stadium.
2023-11-10 21:48:54
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