About 1,500 athletes from 96 national and international teams will participate, in April and June, in 204 games of the 28th of the Vianense Cup tournament – Rodrigo Badana, with “thousands” of spectators expected, the organization revealed this Tuesday. .
The competition will take place in April and June, at the Dr. José de Matos stadium, in the city of Viana, covering seven levels and mobilizing “more than a hundred volunteers”.
Contacted by the Lusa agency, the vice president of Sport Clube Vianense, Miguel Passos Silva, said that they were “confirmed for the games of the petizes and pesky classes, to be held on April 11, SC Braga, Guimarães SC, Rio Ave, Boavista and the Benfica and Futebol Clube do Porto schools ”.
In June, “the Torneo Vianense Cup / Blisq / 28th edition Rodrigo Badana, should count on the participation of Deportivo da Coruña and other teams from Galicia”.
Miguel Passos Silva said that the tournament represents an investment of about 40 thousand euros and has the support of the Câmara de Viana.
The Sport Clube Vianense gym has about 250 athletes.
The children and youth involved in the tournament will be installed “in hotel units and in schools in the city, with a transport network guaranteed between the accommodation and food places and the stadium where the matches will take place”.
According to figures advanced by Miguel Passos Silva, Sport Clube Vianense, which completes 122 years of existence on March 13, “currently has 1,800 paying members”.
Although the senior team of the club of the capital of Alto Minho has never participated in the championship of the first national football division, it has militated several seasons in the second division B and in the third division, even winning the title of national champion in the season of 1998 / 1999.
In the 2019/2020 season, the senior team is playing, for the fourth consecutive year, the district football championship of the first division of the Football Association of Viana, leading the league table with 54 points.
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