Valencia FC ‘honored’ to be first club to stage women’s football camp in Saudi Arabia: Academy technical coordinator

RIYADH: Valencia FC will hold a training camp, which will include women’s football, in the run up to the Spanish Super Cup tournament, which will be played by the first team.

The aim of the camp will be to develop the academy and improve women’s football in Saudi Arabia following the recent launch of the league championship.

The club will be running the camp in cooperation with Jeddah’s Professional Football Academy, and The Futbol Office.

Ramon Mumbo, technical coordinator of the football programs affiliated to the VFC Soccer Academy Programs, said: “It is a great honor for the Valencia club to be the first to hold a women’s training camp in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

“What we want to prove in this camp is that the Valencia Academy is considered one of the most important academies in Europe and the world,” he added.

Valencia B women’s coach, Natalia Garcia, said: “As a woman and a coach, it gives me great pleasure to help women who want to play football in Saudi Arabia.”

Mumbo and Garcia will be taking part in the Saudi camp.

More than 40 players

More than 40 players have registered for the women’s football camp to be held at the Waad Academy in Jeddah, where players will participate and become acquainted with the football curricula at the Valencia Academy.

Mumbo said: “We will show everything we do at the Valencia Academy, where we will carry out practical sessions with the players, and training sessions with male and female technicians who are interested in learning about the methods used in the Valencia club.”

Bet on women

The camp will be the first of its kind to be run by Valencia in Saudi Arabia, reflecting the club’s commitment to equality and the empowerment of women under the terms of an accord