The town of Estepona hosts from this Friday until next Sunday the IV edition of the Amputee Soccer Champions Leaguewhich aims to integration of people with functional diversity through sports practice, becoming the first Spanish city in which this competition is held, as reported by the mayor, José María García Urbano. The mayor, José María García Urbano, has been in charge of inaugurating the Amputee Football Champions League, together with the president of the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF), Matteus Vitlate. In this way, 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 promote and give visibility to this sport modality, one of the youngest in football. Likewise, she has highlighted municipal efforts to promote a more inclusive city with a higher quality of life. In addition to being an event that aims to integration of people with disabilities Through sports practice, the Football Champions League 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 face each other on the playing field of seven footballers, six field players and a goalkeeper. Field players have a lower limb amputation and goalkeepers have an upper limb amputation. They all use crutches and play without their prostheses.
The sets are divided into 2 groups
After the draw was held on October 5, the sets were divided into two groups, with A being made up of the teams CD Flamencos Amputados (Spain), which will be the host, Sporting AMP FC (Italy), Dila (Georgia) and Wisla Kraków (Poland). Meanwhile, B is made up of Etimesgut Amputee Sport Club (Turkey) as seeded, Paris FC (France), Bohemians (Ireland) and Portsmouth Amputee FC (United Kingdom). The matches will be played at the Francisco Muñoz Pérez stadium and also in the municipal Athletics Stadium. Admission to the public will be free throughout the weekend. He responsible for opening the competition It will be the host team, CD Flamencos Amputados Sur, which will face Dila Gori, from Georgia. Seven more meetings will be held on Friday, the last of which will be at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, in the morning and starting at 10:30 a.m., will close the group stage with the last round of matches to, later and in the afternoon, play the two semi-finals, in which the first two finishers from 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 place to eighth). They will be played at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., respectively. The grand final of the tournament will be the same Sunday, from 7:00 p.m., at the Francisco Muñoz Pérez stadium in Estepona. All matches in this international competition can also be followed on streaming via Internet.
2023-11-11 06:51:37
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