The Kings League closes a historic year with the first mixed competition

Gerard Piqué only needed one year to bring his most personal project, the Kings League, to the top. In 12 months of existence they have achieved combine football and entertainment to create one unprecedented phenomenon and fill some of the most important stadiums in the country, such as Camp Nou, the Metropolitano or the Rosaleda. To end 2023, a Palau Sant Jordi with almost all the tickets sold, will host the ‘final four’ of the Kingdom Cup, the first mixed football competition.

For the first time, women and men will play together for a championship, the Kingdom Cup. And as until now – during the month that the preliminary phase of the tournament has been played – the women’s team will play the first half, and the men’s, the second half. In case of penalties, it will be a toss to decide whether they start to throw.

Móstoles, XBuyer, Kunisport and Pigs are the four finalists of the Kingdom Cup. Football, as usual at Kosmos events, will be accompanied by lots of entertainment and the latest musical hits. The Tyets, Fifth Year, Beret i RVFV – who will enter the stage doing ponting– will be the protagonists of the first finals in an ‘indoor’ setting.

Assault on the big stages

«Ho we’ve had everything in front of us this year. They are very beautiful experiences”, explains Aleix Massegú, from Móstoles, to El Periódico after winning in the quarter-finals. “I really enjoy these scenarios. Going out and seeing so many people is really nice. The Palace allows more show, focus and lights. Will be more similar to the NBA, as Gerard Piqué likes it”, he adds.

The Palau Sant Jordi is an extra motivation for the footballers, who are used to the Cupra Arena. “I like play on big stages. If we have competed in these quarter-finals it is because we are excited to arrive at the Palace», confirms to this newspaper Mari Paz Vilas, Porcinos player, who is also listed as Valencia’s top scorer in history.

Melanie Serrano opted for the Queens League project after almost two decades wearing Blaugrana, in which she won Barça’s first Champions League. “I have experienced matches in very beautiful and important stages throughout my career and the public is a very important incentive to win We hope see a full Palau Sant Jordi», says the player in statements to El Periódico. «I am very motivated to be able to see 15,000 people, or whatever it is on Saturday, enjoying our matches”, assures this newspaper Sergi Aguilar, the goalkeeper of Kunisports, after some agonizing quarters, with up to 9 errors.

“It’s strange to play a mixed competition, no one is used to it and we had to adapt”, acknowledges Massegú. Although Porcinos and Kunisports have managed in the last month to stop feeling the team as two different disciplines and to see the club as one. “It’s very exciting as a team, we fight as a unit and regardless of whether it is female or male. It would be Porcinos’ victory”, recalls Vilas. «We did a good job, I didn’t expect it. It’s coming out great”, says Aguilar.

The phenomenon of the Kings League

The competition created by Kosmos has quickly received the support of many fans, especially Generation Z. “In the Kings League you either adapt to the constant change, or you end up dying», remembers Aleix, Móstoles player. “It is growing. It started off really strong and may be stalling a bit now. But it will be fine because always there are new ideas and proposals“, add.

Adapting is complicated for many of the footballers during the first weeks, due to the infinite number of changes that occur in a single match.my head explodes. I haven’t gotten used to it yet, but people like it precisely because of this format. Any team can win», confesses Mari Paz Vilas, from Porcinos. “At the beginning everything was very new, it had nothing to do with the format I knew, but now I am very comfortable,” says Melanie Serrano.

Despite the fact that they brought together many ‘haters’ at the beginning, they have consolidated as a phenomenon. And before closing the year at the Palau Sant Jordi, they received the Ondas award as ‘The best entertainment programme’. “It’s a recognition that the public likes what we do”, points out Aguilar. “It is a prize to all those who they bet on it before those who did not believe in it. We personally freaked out”, explains Vilas. “In the case of the Queens League, it has been one second chance for some players who had left football and now had the opportunity to return”, he adds.

2023-11-25 09:33:56
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