The national doctors’ football championship once again stops in Campania. The association led by Dr. Giovanni Borrelli, for the 24th edition of the event, chose Capaccio Paestum. Ten teams will take to the field from 6 to 9 July to compete for the trophy won by Taranto in 2025. The championship is organized in collaboration with the Aics (which will provide referees and a sports judge), the municipal administrations of Capaccio Paestum and Agropoli, which have made the sports facilities available, the Herajon sports group, chaired by Gaetano Franco Tolomeo, which is celebrating 70 years of activity, the FIGC delegate, Antonio Inverso.
The new format of the tournament in recent months has seen the teams affiliated to the Asd Nazionale Medici Calcio involved in the preliminary phase. Poule Scudetto and Poule Amatori will take place in Paestum Capaccio. Eight teams divided into two groups are competing for the award of the Tricolore: Cosenza, Flegrea, Trinacria and Palermo (A), Napoli, Avellino, Melito Porto Salvo and Taranto (B). The matches will be played starting from Monday 6th at the “Centro città di mare-Polito” sports centre, in Mattine di Agropoli, and at the “Mario Vecchio” in Capaccio scalo. The two semi-finals will be held simultaneously on Wednesday afternoon, to which the top two in each group will advance, the final on Thursday morning, at 9.30, in Agropoli. For the Poule Amatori, a single match between Bari and Salerno, Wednesday at 6.30 pm, in Capaccio scalo.
In the Roll of Honor of the 23 previous editions of the championship organized by the Asd Nazionale Medici Calcio we find Cosenza with 5 successes, followed by Melito Porto Salvo and Naples with 4, Reggio Calabria three, Milan-Brianza two, Florence one, Flegrea, Palermo, Taranto and Trinacria. Like every year, a medical conference is planned, with multiple sessions, which will be held on 6, 7 and 8 July in the conference room of the Ariston hotel, in Capaccio Paestum. We will talk about food supplements in clinical practice: use in ENT, internal medicine and the osteoarticular system.
“This year too we have tried to organize the event in the best possible way, taking into account the sporting but also social aspects that have characterized our association for years”, said the president Giovanni Borrelli, “we have been working on the event since February, we have carried out numerous inspections, precisely to guarantee the teams and their families a peaceful stay in a place rich in history, Paestum, an ancient city in Campania, which was one of the main centers of Magna Graecia, home to a famous archaeological site, which attracts many tourists for the beauty of the coast I thank the local administrations and the other partners who enthusiastically welcomed the choice to have the championship held in the Cilento area where our circuit returns after four years (in 2022 the competition took place in Marina di Camerota) and for the contribution they have provided. The aim is that this gathering will be characterized by healthy competitive spirit and friendship at the end of October, at the “Granillo” stadium in Reggio Calabria, it will be involved in the “Hearts in the field, together for Mario” event, a charity match against the National football team, precisely because solidarity has been at the center of our project since we were born.