With the participation of 48 representative teams from state and private schools in the country, this Saturday, June 1, 2023, the second edition was held Scotiabank Under 11 National Children’s Soccer Championship.
This tournament is a regional platform program Scotiabank Soccer Clubb, which is carried out nationally and in different Latin American countries to offer primary school students the opportunity to participate in a top-level football championship and learn about values such as inclusion, respect and teamwork, while demonstrating their football skills.
One of the innovations for this year is that the tournament will be played according to the modality of football 5 (four players in the field plus a goalkeeper), while the number of registered players varies by school; This year there will be eight members per team.
tournament format
national championship Up to 11 years It will be played in two stages: regional and national. The first one will allow the qualification for the national stage to be determined and will be played at three locations: Panama City, Chitré and Chiriquí.
The first day of the tournament will be held from July 1 to 2 in Panama City, where 24 teams will face each other. It will be there another day Chitra July 8 and 9; and on July 15 and 16, the matches will be held in Chiriquí, in which 12 teams will participate in each place.
The winner of each place, a total of 3 teams, and the national winner of the “Fair Play” award, will win a place to participate in the final national stage on July 22 and 23 at CAI Sportsand Panama City.
New this year will be a prize for the winning team. The winner of the tournament will represent Panama at the regional championship in which teams from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Uruguay; countries where the bank is present.
The winner of this regional competition will travel to the city Barcelona, Spain, where you can participate in a sports program with the Catalan club that will include football clinics, educational and training sessions, as well as a tour of the club’s sports facilities.
Source: Panama America
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