Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, April 8th the third “Evergrande Cup” (U17) International Youth Football Championship opened on the 8th at Evergrande Football School in Qingyuan, Guangdong. In addition to the domestic Guangdong Evergrande football team and Hebei Huaxia happiness team, six high-level foreign teams including the Spanish Atletico Madrid youth training team were invited to participate.
This year’s event was guided by the Chinese Football Association, hosted by Evergrande Group, hosted by Guangzhou Football Association and Evergrande sports event Co., Ltd., and held three phases in total. U17 will be held on April 8-14, U15 will be held on May 1-7, and another U17 will be held in August.
At the opening ceremony, the person in charge of Evergrande sports events Co., Ltd. said that Evergrande began to hold the Madrid Football Championship of “Evergrande Cup” in Spain every year, covering four age groups of U17, U16, U15 and U14, there is a match on Zhou Zhou. At the same time, we will continue to hold U17 and U15 “Evergrande Cup” International football championships in China, hoping that these competitions will become boosters to accelerate the promotion of China’s youth training.
It is understood that the six foreign teams participating in this year’s U17 competition include Atletico Madrid Spain, Moscow Russia Spark, Brazil Cruzeiro, Argentina Banfield, Japan Kashima Antlers, Vietnam Hanoi FC, these teams cover three continents and have strong strength in the field of youth training.
In the 9 years since entering the football world, Evergrande has devoted a lot of money to youth training, established Evergrande Football School in 2012, and established a Spanish branch school in 2014, the implementation of the “one-stop” youth training mode of 5 years of domestic special training +5 years of overseas study is free of charge for elite students. Students aged 9-13 are trained by Real Madrid’s foreign teacher team in China. 25 outstanding students over 13 are selected to the Spanish branch every year. At present, there are 125 outstanding students in Evergrande’s Spanish branch.
At the press conference before the competition, many guests expressed their praise for the holding of Evergrande to promote the high-level exchange of world youth training.
In the 4 matches held on that day, Atletico Madrid drew Cruzeiro 1:1, Banfield beat Moscow 4:2 Spark, Evergrande Football Team 0:1 lost to Vietnam Hanoi FC, hebei Huaxia happiness 1:1 Ping Kashima Antlers.