Encourage sports practice, promote healthteaching values such as tolerance, respect and fair play and bringing lesser-known disciplines closer to children and youth are issues that both councils, through their municipal schools, as well as associations and clubs are clear about.
For this reason, they strive throughout the year to put them into practice and The Chaira There is an entity that has been in charge of coordinating everything between different councils for decades, the Terra Chá Sports Group.
This association organizes everything related to school sports in the Play program that promotes the Council of Galicia. Thus, it structures the entire course based on regular competitions, zonal and qualifying tests and promotional meetings for certain sports.
Futsal and cross country are the star disciplines in the region and which are joined by basketball, table tennis, badminton, athletics, orienteering and duathlon.
But there is also the option of learning about other, much less common proposals or introducing new sports, because trends and customs vary although the objective remains the same.
The success is such that this season there are more than 1,500 registrations distributed in the eight sports modalities that are proposed.
Futsal
It is, without a doubt and for many years, the king of sport in the Chairega region. The good organization of the competition by the Terra Chá Sports Group has made municipalities from outside the region and even from outside the region interested in participating. To Mariña.
This season there is 46 teams —ten in the pre-benjamín category, eleven in junior, ten in junior, seven in infant and eight in cadet—which add up to 576 male and female players.
The participating sports schools are Abadin (a team), Begonte (1), Castro de Rei (5), Cosito (4), Guitiriz (4), More (5), To Pastoriza (5), Villalba (5), Outeiro de Rei (7), Mondoñedo (3), Burela (1), young (1), Barn (2), Ribadeo (1) and equipment Ahimsa of Nursery.
Currently the Terra Tea Leaguewhose finals are scheduled for March 21probably in A Pastoriza. Afterwards it will be Copawith four days, semi-finals and finals, which will be the May 30.
cross country
This modality, which had 500 subscribersis practically finished, since the preparatory test has already been held in Vilalba; the qualifying, for the first time on the A Pastoriza circuit; and the Provincial.
He Gallego will be the January 17 and they will participate in it Gwenäelle Alibes (More), Diego Garcia (A Pastoriza) and Martino Sanchez (Abadín) in fry, and Mohammad El Kabouri (A Pastoriza) in children’s.
Baloncesto
It is the third sport by number of participants within the Xogade program this year in the region, with 140 athletes registered.
The organization of four concentrations: one in Meira January 21; another in Outeiro de Rei, the February 25; a third in Castro de Ribeiras de Lea, the April 22 and the fourth in A Pastoriza, the May 20.
Badminton
It is a discipline that little by little has more and more followers, until this year it reaches a hundred. This year’s calendar features the celebration of a preparatory day in A Pastoriza. will be next February 6.
Table tennis
It is another of the most established modalities in the region over time and that continues to maintain the pull among the different sports schools in the area, bringing together 120 participants.
The first call of the chairego calendar is the high school of the February 26which will be followed by the qualifying of the March 15. The Provincial will be in May.
to the races
In addition to cross-country, the Xogade program also promotes the different modalities included in the athleticsa section that this year has 60 registered. The provincial championship is scheduled for May 31.
There are also about twenty children and adolescents, all of them belonging to the municipal school of A Pastoriza, who will compete in the category of orientationwhose school Provincial will be in March.
Another sport that is included in this year’s calendar is duathlonwhich also has a considerable presence with 40 participants. In March it will be the preparatory day and in April, the qualifying day.
Encounters
Another possibility offered by the Xogade program is multi-sports meetings, which the schools themselves can request to organize a day of sports and coexistence in school hours.
He Ceip Otero Pedrayo of rabid will host an activity that will bring together around 100 schoolchildren from this center and the Ceip Santo Estevo of Parga, Ceip Terra Tea of Romanian (Villalba), Ceip Virxe do Corpiño of Begonte, Ceip de Xermade y Ceip Ramón Falcón of Castro de Rei.
They will all know the datchballan educational and regulated adaptation of the dodgeball or dodgeball.
Promotion of new modalities
The Xogade program offers the possibility of requesting initiation or promotion days in lesser-known disciplines. This year the offer includes escalation, billiards, parkour, gaelic football, orientation —in Terra Chá they started with this last year—, judo, hiking, pickleball o speleology.
On the other hand, this course there has been a high participation in the municipal sports schools of skatingso the Terra Chá Sports Group plans to organize a day that will serve as a meeting between the students of the different municipalities.
Another proposal that can be carried out through Xogade is the initiative Meet my club. In it, a professional team visits the school, sports school, club or Anpa that is interested.
