Filipino soccer participant Rafael Garcia.
A teenage Filipino footballer is presently in Spain as among the many second batch of individuals within the La Liga Academy, a top-level academy put up by considered one of Europe’s high leagues.
Rafael Garcia, aged 16, will participate within the coaching program at ESC La Liga & NBA Centre in Madrid the place he’ll get an opportunity to develop below the “La Liga Methodology” in the course of the 2023-24 season.
“At La Liga Academy. I will take pleasure in assembly new teammates from totally different nations,” Garcia stated after his inclusion to the Academy was introduced by La Liga in a press launch on Wednesday.
“I’ll uncover new cultures. I’m wanting ahead to enjoying soccer and learning with them,” added Garcia, who performs extra on the defensive facet both as a middle again or proper again.
Garcia is the primary Filipino to attend the La Liga Academy after coaching for Makati FC, GOM Soccer Heart and Stallion-Laguna.
The La Liga Academy was launched final yr with the primary batch composed of 37 gamers aged 13 to 18 from 20 nations.
“The event of curiosity in soccer in Southeast Asia is evolving exponentially, particularly within the Philippines, serving to to succeed in new profiles of younger gamers from everywhere in the world,” stated Juan Florit, who heads the La Liga Soccer Growth.
“It’s due to this fact a privilege for La Liga Academy to have Rafael, who has proven nice promise and we hope that subsequent season we will help him develop a sequence of expertise and values via a novel sporting and academic expertise.”
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