{"id":42536,"date":"2015-10-09T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/johan-cruyff-institute-and-the-car-united-in-favor-of-the-training-of-athletes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:46:24","slug":"johan-cruyff-institute-and-the-car-united-in-favor-of-the-training-of-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/latest-news\/johan-cruyff-institute-and-the-car-united-in-favor-of-the-training-of-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Cruyff Institute and the CAR, united in favor of the training of athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>David Alegre and Rub\u00e9n Verg\u00e9s are the two CAR athletes with scholarships from\u00a0 the Johan Cruyff Institute to attend this year&#8217;s Master in Sports Management<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johan Cruyff Institute<\/a>, in its commitment to the <strong>professionalization of sport<\/strong>, has agreements with partner entities\u00a0 that concern themselves with training their own staff or athletes through granting scholarships. This is the case of the CAR (High Performance Centre) in Sant Cugat, which has chosen <strong>David Alegre<\/strong> and <strong>Rub\u00e9n Verg\u00e9s<\/strong> to attend the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/master-sports-management-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master in Sports Management<\/a><\/strong>. Mari\u00ebl Koerhuis, manager of Johan Cruyff Institute, and Carles Combarros, director of CAR, \u00a0have\u00a0formalized today the cooperation agreement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14170\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/firma-convenio-CAR1.webp\" alt=\"Johan Cruyff Institute and the CAR, united in favor of the training of athletes\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Alegre<\/strong> is a professional grass hockey player. He has been a member of the RC de Polo Barcelona team since 2011, and with the Spanish national team he has fulfilled his Olympic dream on three occasions: Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 (silver medal) and London 2012. He\u2019s 30 years old, has a degree in journalism and has done a Master in Business Management and Marketing. He currently works for Mediapro, one of the most important companies in the sports sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rub\u00e9n Verg\u00e9s<\/strong> is a professional snowboarder, specializing in the halfpipe. He is 28 years old and his first Olympic experience was at Vancouver 2010. He won the gold medal at the Universiade Trentino 2013. Rub\u00e9n participates in the family business Cercle d&#8217;Aventura, which is dedicated to guided adventure activities. He is also in charge of the sailing school at the CN Cabrera de Mar beach club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14171\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Foto-car11.webp\" alt=\"Johan Cruyff Institute and the CAR, united in favor of the training of athletes\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Alegre and Rub\u00e9n Verg\u00e9s are the two CAR athletes with scholarships from\u00a0 the Johan Cruyff Institute to attend this year&#8217;s Master in Sports Management The Johan Cruyff Institute, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[619],"editorial_type":[],"class_list":["post-42536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-corporate-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70262,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42536\/revisions\/70262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42536"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=42536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}