The Real Madrid Foundation strengthens its commitment in Oviedo alongside Unicaja and the City Council
The partnership aims to promote values through sports for boys and girls in vulnerable situations.
The Councilor for Sports and Third Deputy Mayor of the Oviedo City Council, Concepción Méndez, welcomed María Ramos, Director of Stakeholder Groups and Central and Northern Protocol at Unicaja, and Ricardo Gallego, ambassador of the Real Madrid Foundation, at the Matalablima field.
The Real Madrid Foundation, together with Unicaja and the Oviedo City Council, carried out an institutional visit to the social sports school in the Asturian capital located at the Matalablima field. The school, active since the 2022/2023 season, served half a hundred children in vulnerable situations last year, all of whom were fully or partially scholarshiped and referred by local social entities.
Over the years, the project has been consolidated as a space for inclusion and coexistence, located in a neighborhood with significant socioeconomic needs, where children of different ages and realities coexist. Thanks to the support of Unicaja and the collaboration of the City Council, which provides the facilities, the school has become a local benchmark for value-based education through sports.
A school for training and life
The Councilor for Sports, Concepción Méndez, stated: “The Foundation has been collaborating with us here in Oviedo for three years. The activity has been carried out here at the Matalablima field, and we are delighted because, in the end, it is a school of life and training. These boys and girls are being provided with tools and values. Every year, the Foundation comes to celebrate this day of camaraderie with the school, its management team, the club, and the entities that collaborate with us.”
A symbol of integration
María Ramos Osorio, Director of Stakeholder Groups and Central and Northern Protocol at Unicaja, emphasized that Unicaja’s commitment lies “with initiatives that generate value in society, especially in territories where, like Asturias, we are deeply rooted. Furthermore, we fully share the philosophy of the Real Madrid Foundation in using sports as a vehicle for social integration, and this school in Oviedo, with which our entity collaborates, is a great example of it.”
Finally, Ricardo Gallego stated: “For the Foundation, it is a source of pride to see how this school has become a symbol of integration and value-based learning. Every child participating represents a story of effort and hope.”
With this visit, the three entities reaffirm their joint commitment to children at risk of exclusion and to using sports as an educational and social transformation tool.
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