Handball returns to the Fornás

Fertiberia BM Puerto Sagunto's Handball School, in collaboration with BM Morvedre and football club CD Acero, is organising the 1st Easter Handball Tournament. It could not have chosen a better setting than a return to the court where it was born in 1951, the Fornás Ground, home of Club Deportivo Acero. Next Saturday, 12 April, from 9:45 am to 2 pm, the current artificial-turf mini-pitches used by CD Acero, where the historic Fornás handball court was once located, will be filled with young under-12 and under-10 players from schools in the municipality, as well as representatives of the three visiting clubs invited to the event: BM Mislata, BM Onda and BM Altura. The event will use the two artificial-turf mini-pitches at FORNAS, one of them divided in two, and the playing field of the also historic Nuestra Señora de Begoña School. There will therefore be four venues where a remarkable total of 41 matches will be played simultaneously, organised into an under-12 tournament with eight teams and an under-10 tournament with ten teams. The grand finale will also be highly symbolic, as it will be an exhibition match between FERTIBERIA PUERTO SAGUNTO's men's CADET B team and BM MORVEDRE's women's junior side. Promotion for the event will also strike a chord with red-and-white supporters, as members of Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto's Communications Office have produced a promotional video clip for the tournament, taking one representative from each school to the legendary Fornás venue, alongside three living legends of handball in Puerto de Sagunto: Pedro Conde, Juan Carlos Núñez and Antonio Sarió Sánchez, who holds the record for appearances for BM Puerto Sagunto. Despite his advanced age, he was able to touch a handball again on the stage of the club's great triumphs—many of them achieved by this man and his generation, the pioneers and the main reason that handball remains a religion in Puerto de Sagunto sixty-four years after its foundation. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLavnFYxFw[/youtube]

Match Schedule

Distribution of Home Teams

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