{"id":43476,"date":"2019-10-16T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/uruguays-club-nacional-de-football-sport-management-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:45:57","slug":"uruguays-club-nacional-de-football-sport-management-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/latest-news\/uruguays-club-nacional-de-football-sport-management-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguay\u2019s Club Nacional de Football opts for the sport management programs of Johan Cruyff Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Uruguay\u00b4s Club Nacional de Football extends a collaboration agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> that offers sport management studies to its players and staff, to include also the club&#8217;s affiliates<\/h2>\n<p class=\"thevelop-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> and Uruguay\u00b4s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacional.uy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Club Nacional de Football<\/a> have extended the collaboration agreement that allows all players and staff of the club to obtain important benefits on the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\">study programs<\/a> in <a href=\"\/?cat_ID=23\"><strong>Sport Management<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/sport-marketing-and-sponsorship\/\"><strong>Sport Marketing and Sponsorship<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"\/?cat_ID=86\"><strong>Football Business<\/strong><\/a>, to include also the club&#8217;s affiliates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25312\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25312\" class=\"wp-image-25312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PHOTO-2019-10-15-08-01-20-2.webp\" alt=\"Uruguay\u2019s Club Nacional de Football opts for the sport management programs of Johan Cruyff Institute \u00a0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-25312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rom\u00e1n Pascual, commercial director of Johan Cruyff Institute, signs de agreement next to Mart\u00edn de Castro, general manager of Club Nacional de Football<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacional.uy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Club Nacional de Football<\/strong><\/a>, a key strategy in its development is the academic training at the highest professional level of its executive and sports management teams\u201d, says <strong>Jos\u00e9 Decurnex<\/strong>, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacional.uy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Club Nacional<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cWe have 120 years of history and we understand that looking to the future is the best tribute to those who built the most successful sports institution in Uruguay, and one of the most successful in America and the world. That is why in the cooperation agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/about-us\/\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> we find an unparalleled opportunity to add academic value, to generate synergy in key actions and to continue on the path of investing in the generation of values and knowledge, with the same emphasis with which we plan our sports strategy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacional.uy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Club Nacional de Football\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> is a Uruguayan sports institution that was founded in 1899 in Montevideo with the intention of creating and consolidating a football institution for Uruguayan Creoles against the predominance of clubs and European practitioners of this sport. It is considered the first &#8216;Creole team&#8217; in Uruguay.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25287\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25287\" class=\"wp-image-25287 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PHOTO-2019-10-15-08-01-21-1.webp\" alt=\"Uruguay\u2019s Club Nacional de Football opts for the sport management programs of Johan Cruyff Institute \u00a0\" width=\"1280\" height=\"887\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-25287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mart\u00edn Sarthou, communications manager of Club Nacional de Football and alumnus of Johan Cruyff Institute , next to Rom\u00e1n Pascual at the stadium<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Throughout its football history, the club has won a total of 157 titles\u2014135 national and 22 international\u2014making it one of the most successful and recognized football clubs in the world, and the one with the most official international titles in America. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacional.uy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Club Nacional<\/strong><\/a> have won the Copa Libertadores de America on three occasions and the Intercontinental Cup every time they have played in it.<\/p>\n<div class='programa-destacado-post'>\n<h3 class=\"especiality-mini-title\">INFORMATION ON<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"programa-maxi-title\">Football Business Programs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"thevelop-posts\">\n<article>\n<p>Football is undoubtedly the most powerful and most popular sport in the world, linking communities, stirring emotions and breaking down cultural barriers. Football has also become one of the most profitable industries, with a significant economic impact in infrastructure development, sponsorships, TV rights and transfers of players.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-in-post\" title=\"INFORMATION ON Football Business Programs\" href=\"\/?cat_ID=86\" rel=\"bookmark\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Check it out!<\/a><\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay\u00b4s Club Nacional de Football extends a collaboration agreement with Johan Cruyff Institute that offers sport management studies to its players and staff, to include also the club&#8217;s affiliates &#8220;For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,228],"tags":[619],"editorial_type":[400],"class_list":["post-43476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-blog-en","tag-corporate-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43476","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=43476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62822,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43476\/revisions\/62822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43476"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=43476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}