If the success of its national and club teams over the past six years are anything to go by, Spain has learned how to produce some of the finest footballers ever to grace the game.
For those not in the know, Spain has become the first nation ever to win three major championships in a row – Euro 2008 (Austria and Switzerland), World Cup 2010 (South Africa) and Euro 2012 (Poland and Ukraine).
Real Madrid, the world’s richest club and arguably its most successful too (a record nine European Cups (Champions Leagues) and 32 Spanish league titles says so), contributed no fewer than four players to Spain’s Euro 2012 winning XI.
Now boys and girls aged between seven and 17 can enjoy the kind of coaching that has propelled Real Madrid’s and Spain’s international stars to the top of the world game.
From July 16-27, Real Madrid are running a soccer school at the sport-oriented La Manga Club, located in Murcia in Spain.
Each day, kids bidding to be the next Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos or Iker Casillas get three hours of training from the Real Madrid Foundation’s official coaches, recreational activities and lunch. Added to that, they’ll get a cool training kit and a diploma for their participation.
As summer camps go, the soccer school isn’t cheap. It costs €500 per child for a week-long training program. Add another €450 to that if you organise for them to stay at the resort’s four-star Las Lomas Village on a full-board basis.
Still, if your boy or girl becomes a professional footballer in the future they’ll be able to pay you back with plenty of five-star trips.
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(Image: La Manga Club)
