Manchester City Football Academy Campus Project/ President Duke: Sponsorship Law, vital to football

2024-04-17 15:14:00, Sport CNA

Manchester City Football Academy Campus Project/ President Duke: Sponsorship

The President of the AFL, Armand Duka, participated in the presentation ceremony of the Manchester City Football Academy campus project as well as in the exhibition of the Manchester City "Treble Trophy Tour" trophies at the Center for Openness and Dialogue (COD) in the Prime Minister .

An event organized by "Dyrrah City Football Academy" in cooperation with Manchester City FC, but also with the support of the AFL, which will build in the city of Durres one of the best sports campuses in Albania, but which have also brought in our country, the trophies won last season by the English club, such as Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

During the welcoming speech at this event, President Duka said that Manchester City's success is proof of many years of work. The head of the Albanian football government thanked all the collaborators who will make possible the realization of the Manchester City Football Academy campus project in Durrës and added that the development of children's football is a priority of the AFL. Also, President Duka once again called for the sponsorship law, which has not yet been applied in our country.

Manchester City Football Academy Campus Project/ President Duke: Sponsorship

"Manchester City has brought five cups to Tirana and it is good news. I see the cups as evidence of a project, of many years of work of one of the biggest clubs in the world. On the eve of the Champions League final last year in Istanbul, the CEO of Manchester City said that in football it is often said that you have to have talent, luck and you have to work. Manchester City's case is work, work and only work.

We also try to become part of this project, to learn from what Manchester City has done, to implement them in Tirana, through training and using the experience that Manchester City has. Also through the excellent project that will continue the talented architect, Marco Casamonti. The prime minister of the country, whom I want to thank for supporting this project, told me that it is one of the best sports projects. In fact, it is considered as one of the best academy today, at least from an architectural point of view, the one recently built in Florence, but the Prime Minister has told me that this will be more beautiful and I wish it to be more beautiful. I have a lot of faith in Marco to make a work of art. Once again, I want to thank the Ministry of Crimea for the initiative and support of this project, and the Mayor of my city, Emirjana Sako. I am very sure that this will be a successful project not only for Durrës but for all of Albania.

The AFF has in its priorities the support of children's football and does everything to make it as attractive and successful as possible and supports it with material basis, investments and with everything it can, perhaps better than any other Federation in Europe. I am convinced that football needs joint projects and strategies where we all get involved, as in this case, where the business world is also involved, to make this game loved by all even more successful. We really have many obligations for our children and one of them is sports. We know the benefits that sport has: health, educational but also economic. Football today has a vital sponsorship law, in fact already promised by the Prime Minister and I am sure that this law will not be a cost for the state budget, but it is an investment that has a safe return in a five-year period.

I express the full support of the AFL not only for this academy, obviously because it will be a school for all other academies, but for every academy, for every team of children that is created in Albania. Finally, I want to thank the leaders of Manchester City who are here and I want to tell you that we have Manchester City in the AFL and he is Pablo Zabaleta, and now we will have him as an academy. Thank you and I wish you a successful project, I'm sure it will be a successful project because Manchester City has never failed, but we generally have not failed either. So two elements that do not fail have a certain success. Thank you!" - said the President of the ALF, Armand Duka.

Manchester City Football Academy Campus Project/ President Duke: Sponsorship

In February of this year, the AFL welcomed to the premises of the "House of Football" the coaches of the football academies of the area of ??Tirana and Durrës in a seminar organized by Dyrrah City Football Academy" in cooperation with Manchester City FC and with the support of the AFL -, where the two coaches who came from the Manchester City academy, Gavin Rhodes and Andy Smith, participated as lecturers. While today and tomorrow several other activities will take place both in the "House of Football" and in the "Air Albania" stadium, where the representatives of the regional National Teams of Tirana and Durrës of the U-13 and U-14 age groups will train and will play together with Manchester City academy coaches.