FC Amigos Avelines

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TALENTED YOUNGSTERS are playing international football in this year’s Costa Blanca Cup and hoping to taste glory.
Javea’s FC Amigos has entered two teams in the tournament – an ‘Alevine’ (under 12) side coached by Terry Denty and an under 10 ‘Benjamine’ team led by coach Richard West.

The Costa Blanca Cup format closely follows the World Cup with eight mini leagues of four teams and the top two sides from each qualifying for the knockout rounds and a final at Benidorm.
The Alevine team started its campaign with a win over CD San Jose, a side from Castilla Leon, and met clubs from Russia and Venezuela in its league games.
And the younger FC Amigos side narrowly lost to the champions of Andalucia in its thrilling opener but was still confident of progressing by picking up points from games with Villajoyosa and Madrid champions ‘the Rottweiler’s.

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“Just like the World Cup we are competing with teams from all over the world with 250 teams taking part in various age groups,” said Terry.
“If the Avelines qualify, we could meet teams from Cameroon, Andorra or Madrid in the next stage. If the Benjamines qualified for the next round we could play teams from Venezuela or Brazil.”

He said all the boys in the two sides were “proud” to represent amigos de Javea in the competition.
“Even though we are only from a small community compared to the international and ‘big city’ teams we are competing against, we are hoping to give a good account of ourselves in the competition,” Terry added.