The meetings will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays, with the participation of graduates, graduates, undergraduate and postgraduate students of the corporation.

With a victory by the “Gatos Guatones” against “Física FC”, the Baby Soccer championship “Copa Titulados ULS” began, organized by the Graduate Monitoring Office of the University of La Serena, whose work is part of the project Alma Mater ULS, and which will be held until October 8 at the Andrés Bello Campus of the institution.

The opening ceremony of the event was attended by university authorities, representatives of the sponsors, the 8 registered teams and the general public, who were able to witness the draw for groups 1 and 2 live.

The G1 was the protagonist of the first day and was made up of “Física FC”, “Gatos Guatones”, “Los Canallas” and Ágora”; Meanwhile, G2 met on Wednesday, August 20 and is made up of “Computación FC”, “Los Brazucas”, “Toby's Club” and “Trapiche's Clan”.

In the first match, the “Gatos Guatones” defeated “Física FC” 9 to 6, with goals from their scorer Jorge Cárdenas (4), Martín Rodríguez (3), Ronald Zambra (1) and Cristian Flores (1) . While Germán Torres, with 2 goals, and Camilo Muñoz, Christian Díaz, Erick Gómez and Braulio Lemus did the same for “Física FC” with 1 score.

In the second round, “Los Canallas” won against “Ágora” by a score of 5 to 3, goals scored by Felipe Jara (2), Jorge Castillo (2) and Freddy Gálvez (1). For “Ágora” Rodrigo and Francisco Tapia scored, with 1 and 2 goals, respectively.

The second day had the biggest win so far in the tournament. “Computación FC” lost 8 to 16 against “Los Brazucas”, after “Trapiche's Clan lost 2 to 7 against “Toby's Club”. This afternoon the talent of the great figure of the first date, Luis Rodríguez, was appreciated, who scored 7 goals for “Los Brazucas”, a team in which Miguel Díaz (4), Renzo Manterola (4) and Fabián also scored. Arancibia (1). The goals for “Computación FC” came from Humberto Farías, Guillermo Salfate, Samuel Henríquez and Juan Galleguillos, all with 2 scores.

Previously, Máximo Hurtado (3), Paulino Rojas (2) and Víctor Escobedo (2) scored for “Toby's Club”, who beat “Trapiche's Clan”, where only Cristóbal Rodríguez (2) scored. All tournament details can be reviewed at http://www.armatupichanga.cl/Publico/Default.aspx. 

Regarding the tournament, one of the top scorers of the opening day, Martín Rodríguez, from the “Gatos Guatones” and a graduate in Construction Engineering, pointed out that “the expectations are to try to share with the majority of the graduates and graduates, and to be able to have a good championship because we have been playing together for some time, so I think we can do well. We even played at the University, in the Construction championship, so we kept the same name that we used at that time.”

Likewise, he declared that this seems like a very good initiative, “because it brings us closer to the University. As one already graduated quite a long time ago, in my case in 2002, approaching the University is good, to share with colleagues from that time and others from other careers.”

In turn, Edgardo Silva, member of “Ágora” and graduate of Ped. in Castellano y Filosofía, he commented that “apparently, we are the oldest, longest-lived team, so the expectations are to have fun, to have a good time. We are a team made up of only teachers, graduates of course, and we are always playing to have fun, have a good time, and rekindle camaraderie. And our expectations are those, to return delighted to our home classroom that one day saw us leave and today we are back.” 

The player recognized the weight that physical condition will have on the experience in this tournament, “and physically we are quite diminished. But we are going to have a good time, that is what is important, and be extremely loyal in everything: the game, the competition, the friendship, the camaraderie.” 

“I owe a lot to this University, I love it very much, I really carry it in my soul and I think that every link that is tried to maintain and strengthen with the alumni is an extremely laudable initiative, very valuable,” Silva highlighted.

As we have already mentioned, the championship includes two phases, where all will face each other within groups 1 and 2. Subsequently, the two best Scores from each bracket will make up the Gold Group and the third and fourth places will make up the Silver Group, to meet again in each series, thus defining the Silver and Gold champion in the finals that will be held on October 7 and 8. 

Graduates, graduates, undergraduate and postgraduate students from the institution of the four faculties make up these teams that are leaving everything on the field, showing experience, strength, speed and talent.

The tournament is sponsored by Comercial Peñarol, Peña e Iduya, Aguas del Valle, Óptica D'Ibañez, Coopeuch, Mutual de Seguridad, Covalsa Automotriz, AlpeSport, Delca and Falabella. All details will be published on the social networks of the Graduate Monitoring Office (Facebook and Twitter), via email and on the portal http://egresados.userena.cl. 

Link with your Alma Mater

As mentioned by the Rector(s) of the university, Dr. Jorge Catalán, “it is a very great effort by the University to maintain the link with all the people who have been trained there and who today work as successful professionals. in different areas of regional and national activity. The University develops people intellectually, cognitively, values-wise, and certainly also in what has to do with healthy living and physical well-being.” The authority added that in the sporting event “there is great interest, many people, from different careers and different moments of their training (…). “It is a great success.”

For his part, the director of Institutional Studies and Planning of the ULS, Mg. César Espíndola, appreciated that the Graduate Monitoring Office has not only been established as an instance to have information on graduates, but that “the challenge was to establish links, networks, alliances that not only serve those who have already gone through the University, but rather to be the bridge for those who today are training for the future labor field. The Office launched itself into the task of innovating and this is one of those things, being able to develop activities that allow us to keep our institution, its Alma Mater, in contact with each of those generations that have passed through our corporation.”

Let us remember that the objectives of the tournament are to link students, graduates and/or graduates of the University of La Serena with their Alma Mater through recreational and sports activities; develop and promote the sport, as well as the interpersonal relationships of the participants; generate contact networks in favor of the early labor insertion of students and graduates; and disseminate activities of the ULS Graduate Monitoring Office and its collaborators.

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