Tarazona will be the national epicenter of Base Handball this summer with a campus from Benjamin to Cadet

This summer, between July 4 and 10, Tarazona hosts the first campus of Handball “City of Tarazona”, a technification meeting that will bring together a hundred children and young people with an advanced game level competing in clubs and schools from different autonomous communities throughout Spain. 

“This meeting arises from the need to offer spaces focused on technification and technical-technical development of handball, offering a formative and sports experience by the hand of first level professionals. A campus of this type had not been done so far in Spain and we wanted this environment ”. This has been explained by Javier Asensio, creator of the I Handball Campus City of Tarazona.

In this sense, the campus is a pioneer by offering players a multidisciplinary program like the one that elite athletes follow since they will work with training, nutrition training, physical preparation or talks about psychology: “We want these days to be useful for their sports career. That they have a good time practicing their favorite sport in an environment like that of Tarazona, but that they also serve them in their future,” 

In the presentation, the manager of Give and Go, Quique Ruiz Paz, has indicated that “the campus has an important differentiation factor, which is the individualized monitoring, and a personalized report will be made for each participant that will allow them to improve their game.”

The event has been presented this Thursday

More than 100 boys and girls from different Spanish clubs

The “Ciudad de Tarazona” handball campus will be held from July 4 to 10 with the participation of a hundred boys and girls between 9 and 16 years. The little ones will participate in the “Kids” program, which will adapt the technical aspects of the technification program to its physical complexion. 

Among the main contributions of the campus to the participants are the study of the tread; Nutrition and Psychology sessions; Visits and talks with national handball personalities; the individualized and personalized assessment of the game; physical preparation sessions; Swimming and training in injury prevention.

In addition, the Campus will have about twenty professionals from the National Ballenista, such as Francisco de Borja Álvarez (currently responsible for the La Salle La Salle Wonders and Assistant Club in the Children’s National Team of the Community of Madrid), Ricardo Mateo (Assistant Coach of the BM Guadalajara) or Javier Márquez (coach of the Villa de Aranda) -Thest last two competitors also competing teams also of the Asoobal League.  

Re reforestation of Moncayo, inclusion and scholarships after the Fana

The organization of the Campus also wants the experience in other personal areas of the students, such as social awareness or the importance of caring for the environment. Thus, the meeting has been designed to minimize the environmental impact of the activity with the use of sustainable transport and the realization of a tree reforestation project in one of the Moncayo areas razed by the fire that calcined 8,000 hectares in August 2022.

On the social level, the campus offers scholarships for ten young people who participated in technification programs in areas affected by the DANA in Valencia and had to interrupt their training due to the bad conditions of sports enclosures. 

In addition, a day of coexistence between young feats of handball with players of the Spanish Wheels Saddle Team, which will compete in an exhibition match, is scheduled on July 6. 

“The organization of such a demanding event cannot leave questions such as sustainability or equality in sport, we are guided by responsible management and we want to convey these values ​​to our boys and girls,” said Javier Asensio. 

Tarazona, a city linked to handball

The city of Tarazona has a very close link with the handball through the Tarazona Handball Club, which has reached the first division of this sport. The Tarazona Handball Club has more than 250 players and participates in First National competitions in the Asobal League.

With this campus, Tarazona will become the epicenter of the National Base Handball for a few days and thus reinforce its image as “Handball City.” In the presentation of the I Campus, the mayor of Tarazona, tone Garay, highlighted the “good sports health” enjoyed by the city. “We are committed to sport and we have good sports facilities, so it is easy to combine activities such as heritage and our agenda,” he said.

For his part, Carlos Baños, president of the Tarazona Handball Club, wanted to remember that the handball “is the most practiced sport in Tarazona and it is a pride that during the week of the campus we can count on sports figures, even of the Asobal.”