Former soccer player David Villa, world champion with Spain, and Puerto Rican Myke Towers, one of the most important Latin artists of urban music, have started a collaboration to transform with football and music vulnerable communities from Puerto Rico, New York (United States), Colombia and Spain, among other places.
Villa, former player of Valencia, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid and New York City FC, among other clubs, and Towers announced with a video on social networks this new ‘duo’ and the first phase of a strategic alliance between its organizations, ‘Young Kingz Foundation’, in the case of the artist, and ‘DV7 Academy’, in the former player.
Towers, who has fourteen concerts in Spain ahead, was recently at the Villa Academy in Madrid, in which the result of this collaboration there are already some young people from its foundation training and can access training scholarships.
In the video call they have published, with Villa in their academy in the Dominican Republic and Towers in Madrid, both are convinced that they can give those and other young people “tools for the future.”
This collaboration, they affirm, will result in concrete programs: free sports courses in disadvantaged neighborhoods, cultural exchange trips, restoration of urban spaces for game and coexistence, high -level training for young talents without resources and emotional and educational support for immigrant minors or in reception homes.
In a joint statement of both foundations, Villa and Towers highlighted their confidence in the power of sport and culture as transformation engines and explained that the community development model that they propose “not only dreams of great, but also acts great.”
“We want this project to inspire and opportunity for thousands of young people who only need someone to create in them. We are committed to providing them with the necessary tools so that they can develop successfully in what they enjoy most,” Towers said.
Villa pointed out that sport and music are “ideal for young people to train in values and can dream of great, regardless of where they come from.”
With this alliance, the ‘Young Kingz Foundation’ and the ‘DV7 Academy’ expand the scope of their own projects and increase their ambition with the idea of ”connecting continents, talents and dreams.”
“It is a pact between leaders who understand the weight of their influence and are putting it at the service of those who need it most. It is also an open invitation to governments, companies and social actors to join a movement that bets on the integral development of youth: from the court and the stage, to the classroom and the heart,” says the statement.
Both projects already actively help youth with different initiatives. In New York, the collaboration between ‘DV7’ E ‘Hispanic Federation’, with the support of Councilor Francisco Moya, promoted the practice of sport among thousands of young Latinos and immigrants in Queens County.
Meanwhile, the ‘Young Kingz Foundation’ has improved sports facilities in Quintana and a scholarship to children of vulnerable communities. The Towers Foundation maintains community scholarship programs, recreational events and space improvement.
