austraLasia #3054
Real Madrid to seek football cooperation with DB Lahore?
LAHORE: 19 April 2012-- Call this breaking news if you will, but it seems that Spanish Club Real Madrid would like to set up a football school in Pakistan in close cooperation with Don Bosco, Lahore. Fr Miguel Ángel Ruíz indicated this recently after receiving the information from the Spanish Embassy in Islamabad. The Ambassador is fully supportive of the idea.
Real Madrid has a number of trademark 'social-sports academies' set up worldwide by the Real Madrid Foundation. Real Madrid are not entirely new to Asia. Their maiden project of this kind was in fact in India's West Bengal State where they have an institute catering to 150 students between the ages of 7-15 years. They have also very recently been engaged in negotiations in Kerala State (Kochi) to set up a similar institute. Real Madrid have also signed a deal to set up a $1billion resort island in the United Arab Emirates.
However..... Real Madrid recently, and obviously in the light of their expansion into such places, officially removed the Cross from the crown in their shield. This has generated a heated debate in the Spanish press. Some of the more heated fans (!!) are wondering if they also intend to alter names like Cristiano Ronaldo, or Ángel di Maria.
But at the very least, they may now find that they have to deal with Fr Miguel Ángel Ruíz! Miguel is insistent that if DB is to have something to do with RM, then the cross had better get put back on the crown! We'll watch how that one plays out. Real Madrid are not the only Spanish club to have done this. FC Barcelona have the St George Cross on their shield, and when merchandise, including the jersey, goes out to Muslim countries, the horizontal bar is removed.
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Real Madrid to seek football cooperation with DB Lahore?
LAHORE: 19 April 2012-- Call this breaking news if you will, but it seems that Spanish Club Real Madrid would like to set up a football school in Pakistan in close cooperation with Don Bosco, Lahore. Fr Miguel Ángel Ruíz indicated this recently after receiving the information from the Spanish Embassy in Islamabad. The Ambassador is fully supportive of the idea.
Real Madrid has a number of trademark 'social-sports academies' set up worldwide by the Real Madrid Foundation. Real Madrid are not entirely new to Asia. Their maiden project of this kind was in fact in India's West Bengal State where they have an institute catering to 150 students between the ages of 7-15 years. They have also very recently been engaged in negotiations in Kerala State (Kochi) to set up a similar institute. Real Madrid have also signed a deal to set up a $1billion resort island in the United Arab Emirates.
However..... Real Madrid recently, and obviously in the light of their expansion into such places, officially removed the Cross from the crown in their shield. This has generated a heated debate in the Spanish press. Some of the more heated fans (!!) are wondering if they also intend to alter names like Cristiano Ronaldo, or Ángel di Maria.
But at the very least, they may now find that they have to deal with Fr Miguel Ángel Ruíz! Miguel is insistent that if DB is to have something to do with RM, then the cross had better get put back on the crown! We'll watch how that one plays out. Real Madrid are not the only Spanish club to have done this. FC Barcelona have the St George Cross on their shield, and when merchandise, including the jersey, goes out to Muslim countries, the horizontal bar is removed.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2011 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
