Ex-Spain and Real Madrid footballer Emilio Butragueño officially opened the UK’s first social sports school on Wednesday.
The aim of the project is to support children and young people by offering them activities to develop their skills, both in sports and relational and social integration.
Butragueño, the former Spain World Cup player who won six La Liga titles during his playing career with Real, is a former director of football at the club and was in south London to introduce the concept of a social sports school.
“The Real Madrid Foundation really believe that sport is a vehicle of social integration and personal development,” Butragueño said.
The project has been made possible by Sport for Unity, a west London charity that has provided sponsorship, the PACT Educational Trust, which owns and operates The Cedars and the Kinetic team for deivering the coaching.
For more information see the project page.
Butragueño with Rutland Partners representatives.