A total of 16 teams, eight of them foreigners, will participate in the VI Beach Soccer Mar Menor Cup "Memorial Juan Antonio Jimenez" to be held on December 6, 7 and 8 at Barnuevo beach in Santiago de la Ribera.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, the Councilor for Sports, Sergio Martínez and José Bernardo Castejón of the AIS Playas de San Javier, organizer of the event, presented the Tournament that will bring together 250 players from the best teams in Spain, Portugal, Germany , France and Switzerland.
The Tournament, which records a record of participation with four teams more than in the last edition, will be played in two fields with uninterrupted games from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from Friday, December 6 until Sunday, December 8 when He will play the final at 1pm.
The game area will feature music and the atmosphere of the international event that will be broadcast live, for the first time, through YouTube and social networks.
In the same act the draw of groups was held, which will play the first phase of the tournament and that has been as follows: Group A headed by the AIS Playas de San Javier with FC Versandkostenfrei, BSC Lions Riviera and Recreational Group Olival Bastos .
Group B with Rostocker Robben in the lead alongside Intercity CF, Los Alcázares FP and CF Chelas;
Group C led by the French of La Grande Motte with AD Torrejón CF;
Torredembarra Beach Soccer Club and Go Rhein Main Beach Soccer;
Group D with Levante UD in the lead and Soccer Playa Marbella, Beach Royals Dusseldorf and CD Bala Azul.
The "best European Beach Soccer winter event" will feature players such as Llorenç Gómez "Best World Player 2018", Eduard Suárez, author of the "Best European Goal 2018", Anthony Barbotti and Leo Brandon, of the French and international Spanish team as Javi Torres, Adrián Frutos, Elliot, or Chiky Ardil, among many others, said José Bernardo Castejón who invited fans to enjoy the best continental beach soccer.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo highlighted the quality of the tournament that makes it a European beach soccer event "that will attract about 400 people among players, companions and coaching staff."
Luengo thanked the AIS Playas de San Javier club for organizing the event in Santiago de la Ribera for its promotion and its contribution to the seasonal adjustment and invited fans and the general public to enjoy this sport modality "which will soon have a field own in the municipal sports center ", as well as the" environment that is generated around in a unique environment ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier