{"id":43678,"date":"2021-08-24T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruyffalumni.org\/johancruyffinstitute-2026\/the-cup-manlleu-2021-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:46:05","slug":"the-cup-manlleu-2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/the-magazine\/latest-news\/the-cup-manlleu-2021-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Cruyff Institute backs academic training in youth football as sponsor of The Cup Manlleu 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Participants in The Cup Manlleu 2021 already have the five scholarships for <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\">academic training at Johan Cruyff Institute<\/a>, sponsor of this youth football tournament managed and organized by Manu Camp\u00e1s, a former student of the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/master-in-sport-marketing-and-management-blended-barcelona\/\">Master in Sport Marketing and Management Blended Barcelona<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"thevelop-dropcap\"><a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> was present at the fifth edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/thecup.es\/el-torneo-the-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Cup Manlleu 2021<\/strong><\/a>, the youth football tournament managed and organized by Manu Camp\u00e1s, a former student of the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/master-in-sport-marketing-and-management-blended-barcelona\/\"><strong>Master in Sport Marketing and Management Blended Barcelona<\/strong><\/a>. The town of Manlleu host the tournament this year for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>As the main sponsor and maximum exponent of <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\"><strong>academic training<\/strong><\/a>, one of the main values promoted by the tournament, <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a> offered one scholarship for the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/postgraduate-diploma-in-football-business-online\/\"><strong>Postgraduate Diploma in Football Business Online<\/strong><\/a> to the winning team, <strong>CF Badalona<\/strong>, and four scholarships for the <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/programa\/course-in-football-business-fundamentals-online\/\"><strong>Football Business Fundamentals course<\/strong><\/a> among the other participating clubs. The commercial director of <a href=\"\/johancruyffinstitute-2026?page_id=41528\"><strong>Johan Cruyff Institute<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Rom\u00e1n Pascual<\/strong>, was in charge of handing out the scholarships after the final played by <strong>CF Badalona<\/strong> and <strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong> on August 15.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31872\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31872\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_5367.webp\" alt=\"Johan Cruyff Institute backs academic training in youth football as sponsor of The Cup Manlleu 2021\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-31872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CF Badalona, winner of the tournament and the scholarship for the Postgraduate Diploma in Football Business Online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_31871\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31871\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31871\" src=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_5374.webp\" alt=\"Johan Cruyff Institute backs academic training in youth football as sponsor of The Cup Manlleu 2021\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-31871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FC Barcelona, runner-up, will access one of the scholarship for the Football Business Fundamentals course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This year, due to the Covid restrictions and unlike previous editions in which the tournament had been open to clubs from all over Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/thecup.es\/el-torneo-the-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Cup Manlleu 2021<\/strong><\/a> participants were reduced to six teams: <strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong>, <strong>FC Andorra<\/strong>, <strong>Girona FC<\/strong>, <strong>CF Badalona<\/strong>, <strong>RCD Espanyol<\/strong> and <strong>AEC Manlleu<\/strong>, as the host team. &#8220;We are very pleased to have been able to organize again the tournament, after having had to cancel last year&#8217;s edition, and to do it for the first time in Osona,&#8221; said Manu. &#8220;We have once again enjoyed the benchmark youth football tournament in the sector, where high-level teams prepare the season with the maximum guarantees, being faithful to our main values: teamwork, humility, fair play and <a href=\"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/academic-programs\/\"><strong>academic training<\/strong><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in The Cup Manlleu 2021 already have the five scholarships for academic training at Johan Cruyff Institute, sponsor of this youth football tournament managed and organized by Manu Camp\u00e1s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,228],"tags":[],"editorial_type":[400],"class_list":["post-43678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43678","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=43678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62705,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43678\/revisions\/62705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43678"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johancruyffinstitute.cruyffalumni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_type?post=43678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}