{"id":12272,"date":"2025-12-10T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/?p=12272"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:51:27","slug":"sevilla-fc-academy-takes-part-in-the-winter-cup-and-desert-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/sevilla-fc-academy-takes-part-in-the-winter-cup-and-desert-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevilla FC Academy takes part in the Winter Cup and Desert Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the <strong>December holiday period<\/strong>, the <strong>U9 and U11 teams of Sevilla FC Academy<\/strong> took part in two prestigious youth tournaments held in <strong>C\u00e1rtama (M\u00e1laga)<\/strong> and <strong>Roquetas de Mar (Almer\u00eda)<\/strong>, enjoying an experience of great sporting and educational value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>C\u00e1rtama<\/strong>, the Academy competed in the <strong>Winter Cup<\/strong>, with our <strong>first-year players<\/strong> joining the <strong>Benjam\u00edn C<\/strong> and <strong>Alev\u00edn C<\/strong> academy teams. The U9 side qualified for the <strong>Gold Phase<\/strong>, finishing the tournament as the <strong>best fourth-placed team<\/strong> in that phase. Meanwhile, the <strong>Alev\u00edn C<\/strong> delivered an outstanding performance in the <strong>Silver Phase<\/strong>, being crowned <strong>champions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, our <strong>second-year players<\/strong> participated in the <strong>Desert Cup<\/strong>, held in <strong>Roquetas de Mar<\/strong>, in a demanding round-robin format that brought together <strong>top national and international academies<\/strong>. The U9 team faced high-level opponents such as <strong>Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, M\u00e1laga CF, UD Almer\u00eda, Benfica, Sporting CP, Granada CF, Valencia CF and Arsenal<\/strong>, while the U11 side competed against <strong>Granada CF, Villarreal CF, UD Almer\u00eda, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Betis and CA Osasuna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond the results, participation in both tournaments represented a <strong>highly enriching experience<\/strong> for the players\u2019 development and growth, allowing them to compete away from Sevilla, face some of the best academies in the national and international scene, and continue their education aligned with the values of <strong>Sevilla FC Academy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the December holiday period, the U9 and U11 teams of Sevilla FC Academy took part in two prestigious youth tournaments held in C\u00e1rtama (M\u00e1laga) and Roquetas de Mar (Almer\u00eda), enjoying an experience of great sporting and educational value. In C\u00e1rtama, the Academy competed in the Winter Cup, with our first-year players joining the Benjam\u00edn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"area_entrada":[87],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar","area_entrada-sevillafc-academy-antonio-puerta-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12273,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions\/12273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"area_entrada","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevillafcacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_entrada?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}