Valencia Basket starts its 9th ‘One Team’ project, now with IES Peset Aleixandre de Paterna

13/01/2021

For the eighth consecutive season, Valencia Basket launches a new initiative within “One Team”, the Corporate Social Responsibility program led and promoted by Euroleague Basketball and in which one more season will have the support of CaixaBank, through the Fundación "La Caixa". As in previous editions, in this ninth Valencia Basket project in “One Team” the practice of basketball will be used as a vehicle to promote well-being and social inclusion.

The Taronja Club will work on this occasion with the IES Peset Aleixandre de Paterna throughout a program of ten sessions in which this season's One Team Ambassadors, Derrick Williams and Martin Hermannsson, will have a special importance. The first of the sessions will take place this week at L’Alqueria del Basket. 16 young people between 13 and 17 years old will take part in this initiative starting tomorrow.

The coaches of the Valencia Basket “One Team”, as they did with the eight previous projects at the Francisco Giner de los Ríos Public School, in Colonia San Vicente Ferrer, with young people from the Asindown Foundation, from the Fuente Periferia Association of San Luis, with the boys and girls of the Hiedra project and the Santa Marta de Cáritas Project, with Mamás en Acción and with the María Auxiliadora de Torrent Private Foundation, will develop tomorrow the first of the training sessions with their new pupils, focused on become a first contact of the kids both with the “One Team” methodology and with the great protagonist of the sessions: the orange ball. The coaches in charge of developing the activity will be José Casares, Patricia Calabuig and Paco Pardo, belonging to the coaching staff of L’Alqueria del Basket.

Ten sessions, one goal
This "One Team IX" project has planned ten training sessions that will take place on Thursdays from tomorrow, January 14 in the afternoon until March. With them, it is sought that the participants live positive experiences and develop healthy habits of personal improvement that can be transferred to the school or work environment. All this through learning the basic concepts of a collective sport such as basketball, which will help participants to know the values ​​of sacrifice and responsibility that derive from organized exercise, use sport as a formula for personal development and guide their steps towards that they can find in the practice of any sports activity a way to grow as people.


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