This morning, the Fundão sports park hosted an initiation to the practice of Walking Football. A recreational, non-competitive sporting activity that brought together the teams “Cerejas do Fundão”, from the Senior Academy, and “Os Albi” from the Senior University of Castelo Branco, on the field.
It is from these two teams that the selection that will represent the district on the next 1st and 2nd of July, in Lisbon, in a National Meeting of Walking Football will come out.
“For this year we wanted to start this activity with a view to its implementation. Next year we will have many more participants, this year only the Academia do Fundão and the Senior University of Castelo Branco appeared, from which the selection will come”. Explains Manuel Candeias, president of the Castelo Branco Football Association.
The idea is to create conditions for Walking Football to settle in the district.
“The main thing is to create conditions for this recreational modality to settle down definitively in the district and provide the elderly with sports and leisure, totally entertaining.”
Next year, Manuel Candeias believes that there will be more participants, since there is already work done with institutions that promote sport and leisure among people over 50 years old.
“There are many who have committed and for next year there will be a significant number of teams participating.” The idea is to promote playful encounters between teams with the possibility of having a more competitive aspect.
“The practice of sport presupposes health and it is with this part that we are concerned, which is to provide the population, at all ages and age groups, with the possibility of practicing some sport.”
Walking Football is a sport for all ages, with some specific rules.
“As the name implies, they can only walk, they cannot touch more than three times each, there can be no contact, they cannot run, there are no goalkeepers, the goals are small, they cannot score goals except within their own area. , and there are only five elements on each side, rules that safeguard safety and allow practice up to 100 years.”
Sport, health, leisure and conviviality, in a single game, where the end result is the least important thing.
2023-05-22 13:21:20
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