Esteponero soccer player Pedro Aragonés, winner of the Spanish Amputee Football Club Championship, with his team, CD Flamencos Amputados del Sur.

The sporting event was held last weekend in the capital of the Principality of Asturias.

The City Council of Estepona reports that the amputee soccer team CP Flamingos Amputees South, in which plays the Estepona Pedro Aragonés Mora, was proclaimed last weekend winner of the Spanish Amputee Football Club Championship for Amputees.

The special sporting event was held on April 11 and 12 at the FUNDOMA F-8 facilities in Oviedo, capital of the Principality of Asturia, and brought together the three top teams in this sport in Spain: Real Oviedo, Real Betis and Flamencos Amputados del Sur.

The triumph came in a hard-fought match against the Real Betis Foundation, in which the team from Malaga, Flamencos Amputados del Sur, finally beat the team from Seville with a score of 1-2, once again taking first place in the Spanish League.

In 2023, Estepona became the first Spanish city to host the Amputee Football Champions League, which brought together teams from eight European countries, a great sporting event in whose organization was involved the City Council of Estepona, giving support and visibility to this form of soccer, a benchmark of inclusive sport, which has exemplary athletes of overcoming, commitment and passion for sport.

Soccer for amputees is a sport that is a form of soccer adapted for amputees. Two teams of seven players, six field players and a goalkeeper, face each other on the field; the field players have amputated lower limbs and the goalkeepers have amputated upper limbs. The field players use crutches and play without their prosthesis.