Yongin FC signs a friendship agreement for soccer development with Spain’s Seville FC
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- Yongin City announced on the 23rd that Yongin FC signed a friendship agreement for soccer development with Sevilla FC, a prestigious Spanish soccer club.
- This agreement follows the exchange agreement between Yongin City and Seville City in October last year and cooperates in various fields such as youth player development, leader education, sports directing, and research and development, and Yongin FC U18 players are already participating in Seville's local training program.
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Yongin City signed an exchange agreement with Seville City in October last year, and this agreement is an extension of that agreement, specifying exchange in the field of soccer.
(Yongin = Yonhap News) Reporter Gwang-ho Kim = Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, announced on the 23rd that Yongin FC, a civic professional soccer team, signed a friendship agreement for soccer development with Sevilla FC, a prestigious Spanish soccer club.
This agreement is an extension of the exchange agreement signed between Yongin City and Seville City in October last year. Club officials, including Yongin FC technical director Lee Dong-guk, visited the Seville FC training ground in Spain on the 22nd and signed the agreement.
According to the agreement, the two clubs agreed to share each other's experience and knowledge until September next year and cooperate in various fields such as ▲ youth player development ▲ leader capacity building education ▲ sports directing ▲ research and development.
Yongin FC plans to actively inherit Sevilla FC's know-how to systematically discover prospects and lay the foundation for its own player development system.
Substantial exchanges have already begun. The Yongin FC U18 (under 18 years old) team has been participating in a local training program in Seville for 10 days starting on the 14th to directly experience advanced European soccer.
Sevilla FC is a prestigious club with a long history of participating in the Primera Liga, Spain's first division, for 67 seasons, and won the championship in the 1945-1946 season.
Mayor Sang-il Lee, the club's owner, said, "Through this agreement with Seville FC, we hope to raise the value and competitiveness of Yongin FC to the next level, and to further promote exchanges between cities through sports."
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The Yongin FC U18 team's local training program in Seville is scheduled to conclude on the 10th.
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Open Questions
- What is the specific budget size of the agreement?
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