Nearly 700 players from 40 teams from 5 countries will play more than 90 matches in the tournament that will be played between Benidorm and La Nucía
The XIII Benidorm Cup 2018 International Baseball Tournament starts tomorrow
This morning the XIII edition of the international football tournament 'Benidorm Cup' has been presented. The Councilor for Sports, Arturo Cabrillo and the head of the organization, Fernando Brotons, have anticipated how this new edition will begin tomorrow, Thursday, March 29 and will continue until Sunday, April 1, among the football fields of Rincón de Loix. Antonio López ', the sports city' Guillermo Amor 'and the' Camilo Cano 'sports center in La Nucía.
Arturo Cabrillo highlighted that 40 teams will participate, "700 players divided between the different categories", between prebenjamines and cadets. In total 90 matches will be played, 36 of football 11 and 54 of football 8. The mayor of Sports estimated that the tournament "will provide a total of 3,700 overnight stays, including direct indirect" and is "a bet more for sports tourism" from the neighboring cities of Benidorm and La Nucía.
For his part, Fernando Brotons stressed the importance of the participation of foreign teams "in this edition will be more than 37% foreign teams that allows achieving the goal of players spend a few days of coexistence in hotels and playgrounds, fostering respect and diversity of cultures, since in addition to Spain, there will be teams from Morocco, France, Scotland and England. "
Brotons has been hopeful that "in a few years" this tournament will be "as powerful as the Costa Blanca", he has announced that there will be 20 people working in the organization and whoever is interested can download the official app 'Benidorm Cup' from Android and Apple. With this 'app' will be accessed "in real time" to the results and participants and teams can download their photographs and diplomas.
