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Prices subject to change without notice. • 210x280 FUNDACIÓN REAL MADRID.PDF 1 18/07/16 13:52 4 cover story cover story 5 There’s no doubt Cuba is in the news Emilio Butragueño trained with boys and Butragueño posing with girls participating at the football camp held right now. Its ever increasing opening up several participants of the at Eduardo Saborit sports centre, in Cuba. to the outside world has made it even football camp. more attractive, if that were possible, and the Real Madrid Foundation hasn’t wasted any time in becoming the first sporting institution in the world to launch educational projects on the Caribbean island. And who better as an ambassador than Emilio Butragueño, director of Institutional Relations at Real Madrid, who visited the Eduardo Saborit sports centre, where the camp was held, where he swapped tie for football shirt and let the participating boys and girls steal a fair few balls off him, a memory they’ll never forget. This first camp held on the island, for which the Foundation collaborated with the Instituto Nacional de Deportes Educación Física y Recreación de Cuba (INDER) catered to around a hundred children and teachers from five primary schools in La Habana. Butragueño, Real Madrid, through the Foundation, is at a ceremony attended by Francisco Montálban, Spain’s ambassador to the first football club in the world to set the island, and Álvaro Kirkpatrick, the up sporting educational projects in Cuba Spanish consul, said it was “an initial experience, one which will be the precursor for new projects” with INDER. about this initial project with the Real Warm welcome in Butragueño also said, “The mission Madrid Foundation, a project where of the Foundation is to teach the values we are working with football to teach of sport and bring football to all on positive values to the boys and girls of equal terms, leaving competition to Cuba”. one side”. He went on to explain that Once again, the Foundation is with these experiences children “learn promoting integration and cooperation to win, learn to lose; they have to stay through sport with this special project, disciplined, respect their teammates, adding to the more than 300 already their coach, and that is what we want to being run in 73 countries. Proof of its The Real MadridCuba Foundation successfully held its first educational focus our efforts on”. success could be found in the words football camp on the island in conjunction with the country’s leading For his part, Mario López, Physical of one girl at the end of the camp: “The sports institution. Butragueño was in attendance to promote the Education director at INDER in La experience with the teachers has been first of many new collaborative projects based around sport. Habana, said, “INDER is so excited incredible”. 6 rest of america rest of america 7 Dijo, a group that collaborates with the Spanish NGO for development CESAL. The project was discussed at a forum held in Mexico: Cooperation, a key element for the Spanish brand: the Real Madrid Foundation, a case study. Emilio Butragueño highlighted that football is a very powerful tool for cooperation where it is used for educational purposes. Basketball training was also given in Oaxaca. The passion for Real Madrid, and the motivation it engenders, even crossed the Atlantic, with the arrival in Madrid of 25 boys and girls from the Foundation’s social sports school in the Cauca Valley (Colombia), a Colombian visitors during a training region hard hit by violence, to enjoy session at the Real Madrid City. Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and also affect the students of the The American isco with the Foundation’s social sports school Avoiding school dropouts and making students from in Ellensburg, in Washington State the Foundation’s football a tool for education and the social sports (USA), which currently has 80 school in the students. The coaches from the school teaching of values are the Foundation’s Cauca valley connection (Colombia) during received training at the facilities of aims in its projects in the Americas The Foundation held other important events across a Microsoft event. Central Washington University, which the Americas in the last quarter of 2016: in Argentina, collaborates as an advisor to achieve Mexico, the USA, and a very special delegation from better training. Some of the eight the complete Real Madrid experience. Colombia arrived in Spain. coaches have been working since They even met some of their idols March at Eisenhower High School and during their participation in a Microsoft The Real Madrid Foundation's school. Of the 13 coaches present, Stanton Academy, while others will programming workshop along with technical team gave training to the three teach at the Nuestra Señora de begin when they join the project at the other Spanish and Portuguese students, coaches of the social sports schools Luján school, which has just started a Lewis and Clark Middle School. where they met Marcelo, Sergio Ramos within the programme For a REAL social sports project in collaboration and Isco. education: Values and sport in Buenos with the Real Madrid Foundation, Cooperation in MExiCo To round out the year in the Aires (Argentina) and Ellensburg catering to 50 boys and girls, with Another initiative that aims to prevent Americas, in December the technical (Washington, USA). educational difficulties from the Máximo children dropping out of school while team from the Foundation gave training In the case of the Argentina, where Paz metropolitan region. using football as an educational classes, both in football and basketball, the activity saw the collaboration of the tool and for the teaching of values to more than 50 coaches, in La Paz Asociación Civil Valores y Deporte, the Education And vAluES is the joint project in Monte Alban (Bolivia), Itagüí (Colombia), Montevideo classes were held at the football pitches in ThE uSA (Oaxaca, Mexico) run by the Real (Uruguay), San Salvador (El Salvador) next to the Julio Bocca classical dance Academic and educational difficulties Madrid Foundation and Crecemos and Río Blanco (Nicaragua). noticias con newsalma 9 Keylor Navas with the participants of a clinic held at Humboldt school in San José. Keylor Navas GeTs BeHIND KIDs aT ClINIC IN COSTa rICa While back in his round 300 boys and yourself,” he said. The player native Costa Rica on A girls aged between urged the kids’ parents to international duty, the eight and 13 and living “never stop fighting for your Real Madrid goalkeeper in situations of social children’s future.” made the most of the vulnerability took part in a Also in Costa Rica, the chance to offer his clinic aimed at providing a final quarter of 2016 saw encouragement to values education through the training course Coaching the participants in a football training, held at the football, teaching values Foundation clinic. Humboldt German School in given to the instructors at the San José. The goalkeeper’s social sports school in the visit was a complete surprise Central American country. for them. “Push hard to The project, which is operated achieve your dreams,” their in collaboration with the countryman told them. “You Universidad Latina de Costa have to believe that you can Rica and with the support of get to anywhere in the world; the multinational firm Globalvia, whatever your situation, caters for 125 children from you can make a success of five to 15 years old. • 210X280 REAL MADRID.indd 1 17/10/16 11:52 10 news news 11 Participants at the start of the runs in Murcia and Ourense. At the circuit’s unveiling (left to right): Emilio Butragueño, Endesa director of communications Alberto Fernández, Real Madrid basketball coach Pablo Laso, Real Madrid Foundation executive vice-president Enrique Sánchez, Real Madrid basketball players Jaycee Carroll and Luka Doncic, and ex-players Toñín Llorente and Juanma Iturriaga. Urbano and Paloma Ramos the start line at the Plaza de with an urban route following CHARITy rUNs a CoMPLETe sUCCESS and won the men’s and la Cruz Roja. The 10km was a path through the area women’s 10km races, won by Nicolas Le Mouhaër, surrounding –where else?– respectively.