The Colombian Soccer Federation, the Colombian Soccer Amateur Division, the Government of Huila and the Municipality of Neiva, invited the María Cano University Foundation, Neiva headquarters, to participate in the National Beach Soccer Interleague Championship, held in the city of Neiva from September 5 to September 9. The support provided by the Physiotherapy Program through their sports practices was essential for the preparation and recovery of the participating athletes from the Magdalena, Bolívar, Guaviare, Valle, Santander, Antioquia, Caldas, Cundinamarca and Atlántico delegations, among others. , which are now preparing for participation in the 2021 Sea and Beach Games to be held next October in the department of Sucre.

The work of the María Cano physiotherapists in high-performance activities is essential to guarantee the correct development of sports practice, help improve the work of athletes in the different meetings that take place within the schedule, optimize performance sports, have higher quality in training, prevent and attend to possible injuries that occur and guarantee the recovery of the participants after each of the matches that are held.

Beach soccer is a form of this sport, considered the most important in the world, characterized by work on sand; It has teams that are made up of five players and, as in the other versions, it seeks to score points with the opponent, to choose, after several matches, the winner of the competition. This sporting practice is originally from Brazil, in the 70s, where there were no basic rules to professionalize it and it was only focused on the recreational field. However, in 1992 it received the regulations that became popular and socialized throughout the world, giving it status and a greater degree of complexity.

Commitment of #MásMaríaCano physiotherapists to sports in Colombia.