Road to Barcelona starts in Cebu
Over 200 aspiring football players will try their luck to earn a chance to train under the highlytouted FC Barcelona football program in Spain in the ‘Road
to Barcelona’ this weekend at the Cebu City Sports Center. Open to boys and girls age 10 to 12 years old, the training camp will be handled by FC Barcelona coaches together with national team mainstays in Anton Del Rosario and Amanda Fernandez.
From the hundreds of participants, seven young booters will be brought to Barcelona, Spain. However, only one of them will get an all-expensespaid training.
The chosen kids will stay in Spain for nine days where they will meet are bringing the training camp to Cebu because we want to share the program to more children,” said Willy de Ocampo, Nestle Philippines Incorporated Vice-President, in a press conference yesterday at the Milo Stadium in Kidzania Manila, Taguig City.
Founded in 1899, FC Barcelona has become one of the most popular, a professional association football club. It has produced football legends and superstars including Diego Maradonna, Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho, Ladislao Kubala and Johann Cruyff.
“We are very proud, excited and blessed to be hosting this year’s Road to Barcelona. This somehow completes our year-long program,” said Cebu Football Association president Rico Navarro.—
Caecent No-ot Magsumbol