Track and field, basketball, baseball, cycling, soccer, judo, swimming, skating, cheerleading, taekwondo, and tennis are just a few of the sports that will be featured at the event.
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With the delivery of the clothing to the teams and delegations that will be part of the new edition of the 2023 Festival of Festivals, an event scheduled for Thursday, January 5 at the Marte Uno field of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Unit in the capital of Antioquia, the once again the window of dreams for hundreds of little athletes who have a true source of inspiration in this annual event to give free rein to their dreams and follow in the footsteps of those who since 1985 have been protagonists of these games.
Next Saturday, January 7, when the doors of the venues where the competitions will take place in the different disciplines that the organizers have arranged for this year open (it is worth remembering that in 1985 its founders barely arranged football as the sport insignia), will once again confirm the event as the mandatory appointment within the sports agenda not only in the city, the department and the country, but beyond our borders.
So that our readers have an idea of the magnitude of what is now called the Festival of Festivals, it should be noted that the single sport of Men’s Baby Soccer this year will have the participation of 44 teams, which will be divided into 11 groups. On the other hand, the Women’s Baby Soccer will have 24 teams, which will be located in 6 groups, according to their organizers.
The Festival of Festivals is fortunate to say that different Colombian football figures are part of its history: James David Rodríguez Rubio, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello and Radamel Falcao García Zárate, are some of the names that have left their mark on the pitch at the Marte Uno court of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Unit, he recalled on his Acord Antioquia website. And although he will defend the Fatima team jersey, Julián Guzmán Zarza, 12 years old and a native of El Bagre (Antioquia), will be part of these days.
And for those who arrived late, remind them that the current Colanta 2022 Babysoccer champions are: Fátima in men’s and Nueva Dely in women’s.
This sports oasis, which will be open to the public until January 21, will have as its main headquarters the Marte 1 and 2 fields of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Unit, as well as the Belén neighborhood Sports Unit, the Tulio Ospina de Bello Coliseum and this At the same time, a tribute will be paid to the doctor Winston Tobón Ochoa, in recognition of his dedication to the benefit of the corporation and its social programs since the foundation of the entity.
When the official presentation of this year’s games was made, it was reported that this time the event will have as a novelty the debut of athletes in taekwondo, bowling and archery, who will compete in the Guillermo Gaviria Combat Coliseum at the Atanasio Sports Unit Girardot, in the Bolera Suramericana and in the Campo Suramericano de Tiro con Arco in the Belén sector, respectively.
“There are many expectations that the Corporation has for the Festival of Festivals. We invite everyone, especially families, to fill the facilities of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Unit,” said Armando Pérez Hoyos, president of the Los Paisitas Sports Corporation.
The sports that will have competition in the Festival of Festivals are chess, athletics, basketball, baseball, bmx, bowling, cycling, soccer, indoor soccer, futsal, judo, swimming, skating, cheerleading, taekwondo, field tennis, tennis table, archery and volleyball.
Finally, it should be noted that the El Bagre delegation will be present in the disciplines of women’s soccer, women’s and men’s volleyball, men’s futsal, men’s indoor soccer, chess, skating, swimming, table tennis and athletics, reported by his part Adriana Kgnith Quintana, director of Sports of that municipality of Bajo Cauca Antioquia.
In this condition, the women’s team from the township of Puerto López of that municipal seat will be in charge of opening this tournament when they face their similar Inder from Planeta Rica, both at 8:15 in the morning on Saturday, January 7. seeded in group A together with the teams Nueva Dely, current champion, and La Alborada de Villavicencio. The dish is served.
