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• Sheffield United starts a stage at Marbella Football Center

  7 July, 2021
  
  

  Sheffield United FC, a team from the Championship (the second highest category of English football), arrived today on the Costa del Sol. The British team will spend a 8 days training camp at Marbella Football Center.

  The team’s coach is Slavisa Jokanovic, an old acquaintance of the Spanish and English fans. Between the 1990s and 2002, the Serbian played for Real Oviedo, CD Tenerife, RC Deportivo de La Coruña and Chelsea.

  

  Jokanovic and his men will use these 8 days at MFC to prepare for the start of the 2021/22 season. Next August 7th, our friends will face Birmingham City FC in the first Championship match. Only 3 days later they will face Carlisle United FC, this time in the English Football League Cup.

  

  With the goal of returning to the Premier League firmly set (they were relegated this season just ended), our friends will be doing everything they can to start the season in the best possible way. We at MFC will do everything in our power to make it happen.

• Day 6 of the Spanish Olympic team at the Meliá Villaitana Football Center

  6 July, 2021
  
  

  

  Today is the sixth day of preparation for the team that will represent Spain at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In just over 2 weeks, Luis de la Fuente’s men will make their debut in Tokyo, facing the Olympic team of Egypt.

  The Spanish team will try to get one of the 2 places in group C, in which they will have to face Argentina and Australia, as well as the aforementioned Egypt team.

  The players are enjoying a good environment and good training conditions to prepare for this important event in the best possible way. The best facilities, tranquillity and privacy to work is the small part that Marbella Football Center contributes to help this great team.

  In addition to the men who are currently training at Meliá Villaitana FC, 6 players who are currently participating in the European Championship will join the training camp. Dani Olmo, Unai Simón, Pau Torres, Eric García, Pedri and Oyarzábal will be the players who will join the team to provide extra quality.

• Al Wahda will train in La Nucía, managed by Marbella Football Center

  5 July, 2021
  
  

  Al Wahda FC is already working at the training camps in La Nucía, through the management of Marbella Football Center. The Emirati team arrived today in Valencia, where they will carry out a training camp to prepare for the start of the UAE Pro League in the second half of August.

  The Asian team will spend a three-week training camp, from the 5th of August until the 25th of this month, four weeks before the start of the national championship. 

  After finishing seventh last season, Henk ten Cate’s (Dutch coach) men are hoping to improve their results this season. On 19th August, our friends will visit Al Urooba in the first match of the 2021-22 season, and they intend to do so in the best possible conditions, and for this they have relied on Marbella Football Center.

• The Spanish National Team already works out at the Meliá Villaitana Football Center

  3 July, 2021
  
  

  The Spanish national team that will play the Olympic Games in Tokyo held yesterday its first training session on the grass of the Meliá Villaitana Football Center complex.

  Luis de la Fuente’s men performed a group session for the first time on the training pitches where they will be preparing until 13th July. The Spanish team are looking forward to this tournament and have therefore chosen a sports complex that offers everything they need for the most demanding preparation.

  

  In a pleasant and reserved environment and with the training fields in the same resort, the Meliá Villaitana FC offers all the amenities for the most demanding teams.

  

  In less than 3 weeks, Pedri, Dani Olmo, Ceballos, Merino will make their debut against Egypt. From Marbella Football Center we are confident in the good result of our boys, as they have trusted us for such an important event.

• LaLiga will get prepared again at MFC

  1 July, 2021
  
  

  

  At Marbella Football Center we are already preparing to welcome the LaLiga Santander and Smartbank teams that will arrive this summer to work on the Costa del Sol.

  This year there will be more clubs coming and friendly matches are already being organised. At the moment, the duel between Málaga CF and UD Alcorcón at MFC is the only one confirmed, but we will be telling you much more in the coming weeks.

  

  During the month of July a large number of clubs from the first and second divisions of Spanish football will pass through the MFC facilities. The different facilities on the Costa del Sol will allow all these teams to train in the utmost privacy and away from the media noise.

  The start of LaLiga Santander and LaLiga Smartbank will be on the 15th of August, and from Marbella Football Center we want to support our friends to reach the first matchday in the best possible conditions.

• The Spanish National Team will prepare for the Olympic Games at the Melia Villaitana Football Center

  29 June, 2021
  
  

  The Spanish Olympic team will prepare for the Olympic Games in Tokyo at the Meliá Villaitana Football Center. This luxury sports resort will allow Luis de la Fuente’s men to prepare for this important event with maximum guarantees.

  The Spanish team will have a training camp until the 13th, when they will leave for Tokyo. Approximately one week later, on the 22nd, the team will make its debut in the tournament against Egypt.

  The Meliá Villaitana Football Center complex, with the fields next to the hotel, will allow the Spanish team to be in a quiet environment to prepare for the games in the best conditions.

  For this important date, the manager has decided to count on the following players:

  Goalkeepers: Álvaro Fernández (Huesca), Unai Simón (Athletic) and Álex Domínguez (Las Palmas).

  Defenders: Óscar Mingueza (Barcelona), Jesús Vallejo (Granada), Eric García (Barcelona), Pau Torres (Villarreal), Óscar Gil (Espanyol) and Juan Miranda (Betis).

  Midfielders: Marc Cucurella (Getafe), Jon Moncayola (Osasuna), Martín Zubimendi (Real Sociedad), Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid), Mikel Merino (Real Sociedad), Carlos Soler (Valencia) and Pedri (Barcelona).

  Forwards: Bryan Gil (Sevilla), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig), Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad), Rafa Mir (Wolverhampton) and Javi Puado (Espanyol).

• RC Deportivo wins the Champions Cup in MFC

  28 June, 2021
  
  

  

  RC Deportivo de La Coruña won the Champions Cup yesterday after defeating FC Barcelona 3-1 in a thrilling match. The best youth players in Spain, the promising footballers of tomorrow, came together at Marbella Football Center.

  The Galicians had to beat Real Madrid beforehand, while the Catalans did the same with Málaga CF. Both won by the narrowest of margins. And the equality in this tournament has been maximum, which is not surprising seeing the great season that these 4 teams have performed.

  We would especially like to congratulate Deportivo for this important victory, which will also give them a place in the next edition of the Youth League, the Champions League for youth teams. 

  The match started very evenly. Mario Domínguez gave Deportivo the lead, but Ilias quickly brought the score back to level terms. It had to be Noel, the 9 of the team from A Coruña, who unbalanced the match with two perfectly executed individual actions, the first one beautifully executed.

  📺 RESUMEN | El @RCDeportivo se corona como el mejor juvenil de España (3-1).

  ⚽️ El conjunto de Óscar Gilsanz brilló para imponerse al @FCBmasia con una actuación estelar de Noel, que anotó un doblete y realizó una asistencia.#CopaDeCampeones pic.twitter.com/ovTyB5Hxaf

  — RFEF (@rfef) June 27, 2021

• Depor and Barça will play the final of the Champions Cup in MFC

  25 June, 2021
  
  

  

  RC Deportivo de La Coruña and FC Barcelona will play the final of the Champions Cup on Sunday. Marbella Football Center will be the stage where the two best teams of the Spanish División de Honor Juvenil will face each other to become champions.

  In the semi-finals Deportivo beat Real Madrid in a very close match. A goal by Fito, with a header from a corner on the verge of half-time, gave the Galicians a place in the final.

  

  The same result was achieved by the Catalans. 1-0 with a penalty goal scored by Alex Rico, the captain of the blue and red team.

  On Sunday at 12:00 both teams will face each other and we will know the champion. Before this decisive duel, tomorrow each team will have a training session on the MFC pitch, where they will face each other.

• Livingston FC arrives today on the Costa del Sol

  22 June, 2021
  
  

  

  The Scottish Premiership team will arrive today at around 23:00. This team that joins the Scottish football top category will train at Atalaya Football Fields in Estepona.

  David Martindale’s men will undertake a seven-day training camp during which they will play a total of two friendlies. In this way, the “lions” will be able to better prepare their return to competition in the unrivalled conditions offered by Marbella Football Center.

  The Scottish team will start the season on the 31st of July against the current champions, Glasgow Rangers. Last season they finished fifth and this year they hope to go one better.

  This is the first team of a busy summer pre-season at Marbella Football Centre. In future posts we will report on the teams that will be arriving over the coming weeks.

• The summer pre-seasons are coming to Marbella Football Center

  17 June, 2021
  
  

  Summer is approaching and with it the pre-seasons prior to the start of most of the leagues in the world. Last year, due to COVID restrictions, very few teams came to us, but this year there will be many teams requesting our services, both Spanish and foreign.

  Over the next few weeks, a large number of clubs will pass through the facilities managed by Marbella Football Center on the Costa del Sol and the Mediterranean coast.

  Important teams will be concentrating with us, training on our pitches and will be able to play top level friendlies. Thanks to this, they will be 100% ready for the start of their respective national leagues.