The First City of Olbia Trophy starts on May 3rd.
More than a thousand little footballers are ready to compete for the First City of Olbia Trophy. Everything is ready for the great football event born in Gallura and which welcomes from 3 to 5 May 2024 almost one hundred professional and amateur teams.
At the center is the world of football combined with training, which is aimed at athletes from all over the island and from overseas and aged between 8 and 13. Today’s very young talents ready to become the new stars of football. Among the participating clubs, the famous names of. stand out Juventus, Milan, Roma, Cagliari, Monza and Ajaccio.
The trophy was born fromOlbia 1905 Academy, a football school active in the area, with the patronage of the Municipality of Olbia and the Sardinia Region. 86 teams from amateur categories and 12 professional ones: these are the main numbers of the first edition of a trophy that is preparing to become a point of reference for the football of tomorrow and well beyond regional borders. The tournament will be divided into three categories: First kicks (under 9) will see the players from the 2015-2016 class on the pitch, Chicks (under 11) for the class of 2013-2014 and finally the Beginners (under 13) class 2011-2012.
All teams are expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon, Friday 3 May. After accommodation in the hotel, the “First City of Olbia Trophy” will begin outside the pitch and around a round table to a conference on sport psychology at 6 pm in the Community hub room, in via Perugia. “Strategies and opportunities for young people through sport” is the title of the meeting moderated by Cristiano Depalmas, psychologist from Olbia 1905 Academy. Together with various institutional figures, the dialogue will focus on the perspectives and support of the little ones through training and sporting activities. The round table will be attended by the mayor of Olbia Settimo Nizzi, the councilors for Education Sabrina Serra, for Social Policies Simonetta Lai, for Tourism Marco Balata, for Sport Elena Casu, the former vice president of the Region Giuseppe Fasolino, the FIGC representative Giampiero Pinna and the director of Cipnes Aldo Carta. In the evening, the delegations will parade with dozens of different shirts along Corso Umberto I, in the historic center of Olbia, for a presentation to the city.
Saturday 4 May wake up early, have breakfast and the tournament will start at 9am. The matches in the first phase, the group stage, will continue until the afternoon. Same program Sunday 5 May. Off at 9am until the finals which will take place in the afternoon. The awards ceremony will follow. On Saturday, the First Kicks and Pulcini categories will compete on the pitches Geovillagein Olbia, while the Esordienti between the “Bruno Nespoli” Stadium (Olbia) and the municipal field of Golfo Aranci. On Sunday the final stages of the event will also have another setting, that of the pitch Loiri Porto San Paolo. The rookie final will still be at the “Bruno Nespoli” stadium.
«I feel immense pride – he says Gianni Spanu, head of the organizing football school, the Olbia 1905 Academy – in finally being able to announce an event we worked so hard on. There are many organizations participating and we are sure that they will give life to beautiful moments of discussion, growth and sport. We will work hard to create a high-level event and to welcome those coming from outside in the best possible way. The hope is that this is a starting point. And I would like to thank the mayor of Olbia Settimo Nizzi and the Region, without whom it would not have been possible to organize an event of this magnitude. I also particularly thank the former regional councilor Giuseppe Fasolino for believing in this event.”
Bonifacio, Nettuno, Olbia, Atletico Maddalena, Lascaris, Polisportiva Supramonte, Gallia Lucciana, San Paolo Santos, Torres, Pro soccer Lab, Berchidda, Dorgalese, Palau, Academy Porto Rotondo, Sporting Vigor Capoterra, Tanca Marchesa, Futura Calcio Sales, Turritana, Accademia Ogliastra, Atletico Olbia, Sant’Elena, Fonni, Cus Sassari, Ilva Maddalena, Polisportiva Bittese, Atletico Monti, Usinese, Atletico Buddusò, San Paolo Sassari, Arzachena Academy, Pirri, Nuova San Francesco, Alghero, Milan, Juventus, Ajaccio, Monza, Cagliari, these are the participating teams, most of which are present with multiple teams to take part in more than one category.
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