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Lorca hosts this weekend's National Jugger Tournament in which more than 250 competitors from different parts of Spain (26/02/2014)

This is a recently introduced method inherited from the German Erasmus students in which 2 teams of 5 players must put the ball in the opposing team's base.

Councilman Sports City of Lorca, Augustine Llamas, reported that the Ciudad Deportiva de La Torrecilla is hosting this weekend the National Tournament Jugger, a new sporting activity in which 253 competitors will participate from different parts of the national geography (Galicia, Valencia, Madrid, Andalusia ...).

The event, which will stage the area inside the track on Saturday will be held from 9:30 to 20:30 pm and on Sunday from 9:30 to 14:40 h, carrying out the trophy to the conclusion of this last day.

Llamas Gómez explained that this tournament, organized by the Association of Murcia Jugger (AMUJ), is integrated in the circuit championships Jugger Spanish Federation as one of the 4 national tournaments held at present in our country.

The Jugger is an activity in which two teams of 5 members each row should get (one per team) get the jugg meter (ball) at the base of the opposing team, to facilitate the work of the corridor the other 4 members each team carrying various weapons cushioned which should touch the enemy players if that player has been touched is penalized for a certain period of time during which gets knocked out, so it produces the more enemies players Neuter your team, the easier the broker makes the point.

The Jugger came to our country through German students participating in the Erasmus program, which extended the first outbreaks in Valencia and Zaragoza, were later joined Madrid and 3 years, the Region of Murcia which is currently considered the head of the Jugger national organizational level both as a competitive, even this year a selection of players from the region has been on the world tournament champion Germany.

On development in the Region of Murcia, the Jugger has always gone hand AMUJ (Murcia Association of Jugger) since February 2011 been organizing numerous events to raise awareness of the sport among young people.

Since its inception the AMUJ already has seven regional tournaments, a national three leagues that span the entire season, 8 trips to tournaments outside of Murcia and very numerous exhibitions both at the municipal level and outside (institutes, medieval markets, youth events , etc.)

The President of the Association of Murcia Jugger, Julio Garcia, who has accompanied the Councillor for Sports in the presentation of the event, said that this organization was created over 3 years ago to meet the incredible demand for activities and competitions related to the sport emerged in very little time in our region, and since then has organized three leagues year, 7 regional tournaments, the last edition of this national tournament and various trips to other national tournaments in our country, and more than 25 exhibitions in centers Secondary education in our region and has helped a lot of third-party events, performing complementary activities.

Currently, the association has over 180 members, a stable and well-organized structure.

The jugger in pictures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYO8L58Zc2g

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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