If the success of its national and club teams in the last six years are anything to go by, Spain has learned how to produce some of the finest soccer players ever to grace the game.
For those not in the know, Spain has just 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 9 European Cups (Champions Leagues) and 32 Spanish league titles says so), contributed no less than four players to Spain’s Euro 2012 winning XI.
Now boys and girls between the ages of seven and 17 can enjoy the kind of coaching that’s propelled Real Madrid’s and Spain’s international stars to the top of the world game.
From July 16-27, Real Madrid is 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 (around $612) per child for a week-long training program. Add another €450 (around $550) to that if you organize 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 soccer player 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)
