Real Madrid Foundation football club will be holding football camp in Lahore

Lahore: Real Madrid Foundation (RMF), an institutional arm of the world renowned and prestigious Spanish football club Real Madrid, will be holding their first ever football camp, Real Madrid Foundation Campus Experience in Lahore in December 2016. At a press conference held at Pearl Continental Hotel, the Foundation’s Director Joaquin Sagues announced that registrations for the camp are now open across Lahore.

The five-day football camp of the Real Madrid Foundation will be taking place at the Model Town Football Academy from 27th December 2016 till 31st December 2016, for which Real Madrid Foundation trainers and coaches will be traveling to Pakistan from Spain.

Speaking about why the foundation has chosen to hold a camp in Pakistan, Real Madrid Foundation Director, Mr. Joaquin Sagues said, “We are very proud to be able to bring Real Madrid Values closer to all Pakistani children. We are convinced that this first edition of Campus Experience in Lahore will be a roaring success.”

Over the past five years, the Real Madrid Foundation has held football camps across over four continents through which they have engaged more than 30,000 children.

Through the Real Madrid Foundation Campus Experience, the foundation aims to provide children between the ages of 7 to 17 an opportunity to learn the game of football and the values inherent in sport. These values serve as an educational tool, capable of contributing to the comprehensive development of the youth who practice it. In addition, the foundation’s aim is to promote the coexistence and the individual and social development, as well as the values associated with Real Madrid.

The official host and rights holder of the Foundation Real Madrid Campus Experience in Pakistan is QSports, a Qatar-based sports management firm, which has successfully organized the camp in Qatar in 2014 and 2015. The official event management companies for the camp are Checkmate Consultancy and Green Peak International.

Speaking about the expectations QSports has from the upcoming camp to be held in Lahore, as well as future plans, CEO Mr. Adil Ahmed said “We hope that the campus will bring a much needed boost to promote football in Pakistan. It’s a wonderful opportunity for young footballers to learn the values of Real Madrid, one of the greatest football clubs in the world.

This is just a first step and our aim is to host the campus in other cities across Pakistan as well and bring many more programs to Pakistan offered by the Real Madrid Foundation”.**