The alliance between Valencia CF and The Bridge SC which began a year ago continues to take firm steps to consolidate the presence of the Mestalla Club in this Middle Eastern country where football is increasingly attracting more interest.
Proof of this has been the great success of participation and media dissemination of the technical visit carried out by technicians from the Valencia CF Academy to check in situ the evolution of the nearly 80 players between 10 and 19 years old who train in Amman, in the Jordanian capital, in The Bridge SC project.
growth in the middle east
“Our main objective in Jordan is help The Bridge SC develop its academy and create a close relationship to collaborate in the methodological development of players” indica Vicente Roch, technical coordinator of the VCF Academy Programs, who He visited Amman a few weeks ago, explaining to coaches and players some keys to the VCF Academy methodology., the fourth best in Europe in training players to compete in the elite, according to the CIES Football Observatory report.
“The Club also aims to increase its presence in the Middle East. We know that LaLiga is very followed in Jordan and we want to increase our presence here and our followers” explains Roch, who together with the VCF Academy Programs department have also developed projects in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the last year.
Last season the VCF Academy became Technical Parter de The Bridge SCa high-performance academy founded in 2021 in Amman and whose main objective is to develop local players who can make the leap to professional football or who can access scholarships to combine their studies with their football career in other countries.
“We started our The Bridge SC Academy in 2021 with the clear idea of being a high-level Academy. Since then we have been selecting higher level players who have come to our tryouts and we have U19, U16, U14, U12 and U10 teams all focused on a future in football” he explains. Iván Beroiz co-founder of The Bridge SC.
“Our main partner is Valencia CF of LaLiga, which is our technical partner with whom we develop different programs with the aim of developing our players in Jordan with their training methodology,” they indicate.
growing and with wide impact
This second edition of the II VCF Camp Jordan surpassed the number of participants in the first edition in 2023 and was widely disseminated in the local media that reported the presence of Valencia CF in Jordan and even on television such as Roya TV y Mamlakah TV were able to see in situ the evolution of the VCF Camp Jordania in a workshop organized in collaboration with LaLiga.
“The objective of this workshop has been mainly to publicize this beautiful project carried out by Valencia CF and The Bridge SC and to see how happy the children who are part of the project are” he highlights Martin Dueñas, LaLiga delegate in UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman
In addition to the Valencia CF Campus in Jordan, The Bridge SC players will participate this season in the VCF Academy World Cup and the VCF Elite Camp as well as a VCF Training Experience at the Ciutat Esportiva de Paterna.
The international alliances, technical consulting, VCF Soccer Camps and VCF Soccer Academy that the VCF Academy has in strategic markets in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia are part of the VCF Soccer Academy Programs that help expand the brand globally. Valencia CF and what its colors symbolize. This Internationalization Strategy has been a finalist in the World Football Summit Awards 2023
In 2023, more than 5,000 players and 400 coaches from more than 50 countries around the world participated in the different VCF Academy Programs to better understand the VCF Academy’s playing methodology.
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