Mestalla opens its doors this Saturday to welcome the fans in a new edition of the Orange Trophy. It will be the coming-out of the team Ruben Baraja before his fans before making his league debut on August 11 against Sevilla at the Sanchez Pizjuan. The rival this year will be the English Aston Villa, directed by an old acquaintance of the house such as Unai Emerywho will return to what was his fief for four seasons between 2008 and 2012.
This edition of the historic Valencian tournament will have the novelty that it will be given a lot of prominence to the VCF Foundation and to the different projects and initiatives that it carries out. This ‘presentation in society’ will be framed in the previous meeting. And it is that, although the ball will roll on the Mestalla lawn from 9:00 p.m., the acts of a special day for all Valencianism can be experienced from approximately 7:30 p.m..
Among the main projects of the Foundation that will have their place in the Taronja Trophy, the most noteworthy are, first of all, “Ecoles Cor Blanquinegre”. An initiative coordinated by Anthony Salvador in which football is used as a tool for integration and transmission of values, helping people with difficulties. This project operates in schools, prisons and in municipalities at risk of depopulation. On Saturday, children of up to 18 different nationalities will step onto the Mestalla pitch together with the first team footballers.
Visibility will also be given to the great protagonists of the Inclusive VCF together with his coordinator Osvaldo Marquez. This project is focused on working with people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses. Some of the children that make up the different teams of Valencia CF Inclusive will lead the way to the first team led by Pipo.
He ADN Mestalla in solidarity, which this season faces its third edition will also have a leading role on the eve of the match against Aston Villa. The act will be that 18 social entities and NGOs will carry the banner of the Fundació VCF in the center of the field. And finally, importance will be given to the department of Historical Heritagewhich has among its many objectives that of carry out a museum that will take place in the Nou Mestalla once it is built.
These will be some of the many initiatives that will take place in a somewhat special edition of the Taronja Trophy. The doors of Mestalla will be open at 7:30 p.m. so that the team can also enjoy the presentation of their team and, until now, the only signing made: Pepelu. The ex-granota will be the only new face in a squad that continues to cry out for reinforcements with a week to go before the start of the season.
2023-08-03 20:22:43
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