The Real Madrid Foundation inaugurates a new headquarters for its Educational Football Programme in Japan

The Real Madrid Foundation has launched the second site of the Educational Football Program in Tokyo's Harumi district, in collaboration with Global Football Management. Over 400 boys and girls will take part in the programme, which will be held on the rooftop of a corporate building that has been built with the help of the Otsuka Group.
The success of the first site in Harumi, catering for more than 600 students, has led to the opening of the new centre. In addition to Tokyo, the Educational Football Program, which has been running in Japan with Global Football Management for 11 years, has sites in Aichi, Adachi, Chiba, Yashio and Yokohama, with the main support of NTT Urban Solutions and Dears Brain. It has thus established itself as the most prominent educational football programme in the country, with more than 1,600 players at the end of the season, and almost 10% girls.

Real Madrid Methodology
The Educational Football Program provides the participants, students in their formative years, the opportunity to develop their skills while under the guidance of coaches trained in the organisation's methodology For a Real Education: Values and Sport, certified by the Real Madrid Sports Department. The profits generated by these activities support the social and sporting projects that the Foundation is developing in Battambang (Cambodia), caring for a particularly vulnerable group such as children affected by polio or victims of landmine accidents, which are widespread in this province, together with the NGO Sauce (Solidaridad, Ayuda y Unión Crean Esperanza). The children taking part in Japan will have the chance to get first-hand experience of this project by travelling to the country and taking part in joint social and sporting activities that will give them a closer look at a very different world.