The Andrés Estrada Municipal Sports Center will host the first leg of the National League of Badminton Clubs this Saturday at 5:15 p.m. A top-level sports event in which Recreativo IES La Orden faces the Rinconada-Sevilla Badminton Club to fight for the title of the Top10 Iberdrola league. Tickets are priced at 5 euros for adults and 3 for children.
In this regard, as has been advanced the Councilor for Citizen Participation and Sports, María Teresa Flores, “we are sure that it will be a very important day for our badminton and in general for the sport of Huelva, so, how could it be otherwise, it has the full support of the Huelva City Council and we would like to be able to also count on the support of all the Huelva fans in the stands, cheering for to make sure that the victory stays at home”.
In this way, the mayor points out, “it is a great satisfaction to present an event in which Huelva will once again be the Capital of Sports, with the aspiration that a club can reach the top of the ranking and approach the final duel with more guarantees Recreativo IES La Orden is so emblematic of Huelva, of which the Huelva City Council is the main sponsor and which is undoubtedly a reference to our deep bond with badminton”.
Therefore, this final has a team from Huelva from the IES La Orden category, which has become the best badminton team of the last decade, winning the League seven times, from 2013 to the present.
This weekend, the capital will become a true sports benchmark both regionally and nationally, since it will host a competition that will be very close, with a total of seven games where the best athletes in Spain will be giving their all. badminton.
In this sense, the president of Recreativo IES La Orden, María Eugenia Lorenzo, He wanted to highlight the fact that “we will be able to see Club players of the stature of Pablo Abián, a four-time Olympian and number 1 in Spanish badminton, in action, as well as other great figures such as Haideé Ojeda or Telma Santos, a Portuguese player who is part of the of the group from Huelva and that has also been an Olympic”.
Therefore, it is a day that will be very competitive and decisive for IES La Orden, a team that is carrying the name of the city and the Huelva Original brand as its banner in the pavilions of the entire Spanish geography. In addition, if the winner is proclaimed this Saturday, the Huelva club will be very close to conquering the well-deserved position of the best team in Spain in the final duel, which will be decided in Seville in the second leg.
Promotion of grassroots sport
It should be noted that this presentation was also attended by Juan Carlos Longo, president of the Andalusian Badminton Federation, who has come on behalf of the Spanish Badminton Federation (FESBA) and who wanted to “encourage the Huelva public to support this important event with their presence at Andrés Estrada, where they will be able to see very exciting badminton matches, thanks to the participation of two clubs that are the elite leaders of this sport”.
On the other hand, as has also been made clear today, For the City Council, the TOP10 of the Division of Honor is also an excellent opportunity to continue betting on grassroots sport in the city, creating fans among boys and girls around a sport that is already a hallmark of Huelva and that also represents all those values that are linked to sports practice, such as effort, the desire to excel, commitment, camaraderie and fair play.
