The Real Madrid Foundation and Exolum renew their collaboration for the integration football school in San Fernando de Henares

• 50% of the places at the social sports football school are awarded through scholarships aimed at minors at risk of exclusion

Madrid, February 20, 2025. Real Madrid ambassador Álvaro Arbeloa has welcomed the mayor of San Fernando de Henares, Javier Corpa, and the director of Exolum’s Spanish and Aviation Business Unit, Jorge Guillén, to the Real Madrid City Auditorium to renew the collaboration that allows the integration football school to operate in the municipality of the Community of Madrid.

Children aged between 5 and 17 years old in this project receive a partial or full scholarship thanks to the support of Exolum and the collaboration of the Town Council, both in the area of sports with the provision of facilities, and in the area of social services, which ensures that at least 50% of the places are allocated to children at risk of exclusion or social disadvantage. Since last season, this programme has also been catering for children with disabilities who train every week with other children in an inclusive environment.

The mayor of San Fernando de Henares explained, ‘Since 2011, the San Fernando de Henares City Council, the Real Madrid Foundation and Exolum have made this very important project possible for our city (…); a project that is highly valued by the families of the municipality and which we hope will continue for many years to come’.

For his part, Jorge Guillén, general manager of Exolum’s Spain and Aviation Business Unit, said that ‘sport has a transformative capacity that goes beyond the playing field and goals. It is a powerful tool for forging a more promising future. Through the Social Sports School, we are investing in the future of our community, promoting the development of responsible citizens, leaders and defenders of the values that unite us’.

Álvaro Arbeloa emphasised: ‘Thanks to the teaching methodology created by the Foundation two decades ago, and updated every season, all children aged between 5 and 17, whatever their circumstances and abilities, learn values such as respect, camaraderie, the motivation to excel and equality, while playing football’.

The signing of this collaboration agreement between the three organisations consolidates for another year this joint project that has been running in the Madrid town since 2011.