SKNFA Forms Partnership With La Liga Club Cádiz C.F.

Published 17 March 2022

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Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

SKNFA Forms Partnership With La Liga Club Cádiz C.F.

The St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association (SKNFA) and La Liga club Cádiz C.F. announced a
partnership on Thursday, that will see young players from St. Kitts and Nevis getting
professional and developmental opportunities at the club. The announcement was made at a brief
press conference Thursday, which was broadcast live on the St. Kitts and Nevis Facebook page
from the Royal St. Kitts Hotel Conference Room. President of the SKNFA Atiba Harris and
International Director of Football at Cádiz C.F., Enrique Martinez Perez, signed the agreement at
the press conference. Also present at the signing was 1st Vice President of the SKNFA Sean
White, who is also the head of the SKNFA Marketing Committee.

Mr. Harris said this opportunity will not only be limited to youth male players, but females as
well. He said this development is significant in providing opportunities for local players, who
desire to pursue a professional pathway in football. “I think the dream for many of our players is
to go to college or become professional footballers, so to formulate this agreement with Cadiz
Football Club, a La Liga Club…it’s a realistic opportunity for our young players to have a
realistic, standardized pathway to chase their dreams and become the next professional footballer
or the many professional footballers in years to come,” Mr. Harris said. This he said would help
to raise the standard of football in St. Kitts and Nevis.

Meanwhile, Mr. Martinez-Perez explained that this agreement will bring players from St. Kitts
and Nevis to Cadiz, to give them a professional opportunity. “We will try to develop the talent
we have here and they will have the opportunity in our club Cadiz to develop all their skills,”
Martinez-Perez said. Incidentally, Cadiz was the first professional club that Atiba Harris played
for when he was just 18 years old. “Cadiz happened to be my first professional club. When I was
18 years old, I left the Federation to embark on a journey and today 19 years later, we have an
agreement that we are about to formulate with Cádiz Football Club and the SKNFA to make a
standardized pathway for our youth players, to have a professional career possible,” Harris said.

Cádiz (Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D.), is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz,
Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in the La Liga, the Spanish top flight league and
hold home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of over 20,000.