After several days enjoying soccer, learning, and enjoying themselves and getting to know Valencia CF better, the time has come to put an end to this first Valencia CF Women's Camp that has taken place over the last few days in Jeddah.

The images and the faces of the players speak for themselves of the experience they have had the opportunity to live. On the pitch enjoying soccer and learning more about the methodology of the VCF Academy, an international reference in the training of players for the elite. And off the pitch, generating bonds and ties that go beyond these days of coexistence in the Waad Academy facilities.

A first step

"This is just a first step," says Ramón Mompó, technical coordinator of the VCF Academy Programs, who has been with Natalia García teaching this first Valencia CF Women's Campus in Saudi Arabia. "We have already told them that the next step is to organize a Training Stage at the Ciutat Esportiva de Paterna, in Valencia, to give continuity to this first experience".

There will be no shortage of enthusiasm because the experience has been very positive for the nearly 40 players between 12 and 16 years old who participated in the Campus. Each of them received a diploma, a pennant and a gift at the closing ceremony in which the complicity generated during these days in this Campus that Valencia CF has held in collaboration with the Jeddah Pro Football Academy and The Futbol Office reigned.

Super Cup semifinals

Some of the players of the Valencia CF Campus in Saudi Arabia also had the opportunity to visit the Valencia CF expedition in Riyadh in the hours prior to the Super Cup semifinals and have a pleasant meeting with the president Layhoon Chan and some players like Jaume Domenech or Edinson Cavani, as well as witnessing the match against Real Madrid at the King Fahd International Stadium.

Commitment to women

This 1st Valencia CF Women's Campus in Saudi Arabia is another example of Valencia CF's commitment to equality and the empowerment of women, which was already reflected in the agreement signed in 2015 by president Layhoon Chan with UN Women to promote gender equality. 

Promoting women's soccer in the Middle East

This Valencia CF Campus in Saudi Arabia is a first step in a process with which Valencia CF aims to develop women's soccer in various countries in the Middle East that have already shown interest in counting on Valencia CF to promote women's soccer, as is already being done in many of the VCF Soccer Academies in Seattle, Houston, Canada and Greece, among others.