ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Tournament of the 5th Football Regions prepares for its 62nd edition for a big event in Lazio. The exhibition, scheduled from 25 April to 1 May, will involve 72 regional selections of four categories: male, female, U17 and U15, for a total of about 1,600 people involved among athletes, technicians and managers. Extensive numbers that testify to the sporting importance of the event. The 130 games will be played, instead, in eleven sports facilities located in nine municipalities in the provinces of Rome and Latina, precisely in the localities of Cisterna, Fondi, Formia, Gaeta, Pontinia, Terracina, Anzio, Genzano and Velletri. You return to Lazio seven years from the last time dated 2019, when the football event was held at 11, while for the football tournament at 5 you have to go back until 2011. The National Amateur League celebrates the Tournament of Regions as “our flagship with the delivery of blessings, because it realizes what is the reality of our world: the territory – says President Giancarlo Abete -. The Lnd has a central headquarters, but it lives a dimension of widespread presence, which must take into account the diversity existing between the territories”.
Speaking of the field, Lazio “is a region that has obtained 19 successes, I believe that no other region has many – says Roberto Avvantaggiato, president of the Regional Committee of Lazio of the National Amateurs League -. A primacy that tells our tradition, the quality of our societies, coaches and athletes. We have a strong youth nursery that collects many successes even at national level. The Tournament of the Regions is not only a competition in which to proudly express values such as talent and friendship, but also promote social issues with initiatives that will be included in the tournament program.”.
A commitment to the promotion of the event also comes from the Lazio Region, which as the Councillor for the Budget Giancarlo Righini “has never spared a penny for sport”. The protagonists will be the young, for which the tournament is “a date with history”, as stated by the president of the Youth and School Sector of Figc, Vito Tisci. “This competition becomes an authentic gym of life. They’re beautiful experiences for the kids. It is a sports competition, but also educational and promotion for the territory”, he concluded.
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