"La educación literal y civil de la juventud es uno de los primeros y más paternales cuidados del Gobierno".

Simon Bolivar.

Baseball is our language Baseball is our gender Baseball is our choice of sport Baseball is our colour Baseball is our persuasion Baseball is our flavour Baseball is our tolerance Baseball is our orientation Baseball is our affiliation Baseball is our culture and diversity.

Figueras Baseball Academy 

Figueras Baseball Academy 2006 

It is time to talk as well as listening.

I often avoid the shade as I always try to walk in the bright side of life. Still, life always brings problems to every living creature on earth before success is found in their path. Indeed, deficiency, shortages, poverty, lack of contentment and total loss of hope are often the main adversaries of humanity and the main reason for migrating to a more fertile economy. However, while in many instances certain amount of immigration to a foreign country is acceptable and its contribution is warmly welcomed since it helps to raise substantially the economy of a nation and its standard of living, too much of it can create causes for complaint and disapproval from its native inhabitants. All things being equal there would have never been a cause for anyone  leaving their homeland. Nevertheless, there are times when one must sympathize with the plight of those who have left behind families and all their material possessions they had in order to emigrate from their countries of origin to different ones, which is not often by choice, perchance, the fertile soil, food and the sunshine were no longer theirs or taken it away from them, who knows. Indeed, I have been brought up with a very strong pattern that I am not to get too big for my boots and therefore my ambitions are moderate, in spite of that I believe that it is okay to have a dream. Certainly, when one is trying to build a kingdom, one doesn't build one's castles in the air since buildings of that sort need to be fortified and well rooted into the earth in order to make them more stable. This is the reason for my believing that a good education is the most important start in life anyone can have. The need to be prepared to face the ups and downs of good and bad luck in life and succeed in today's world is of paramount importance and our aim in the Academy is to help everyone to achieve their maximum potential so that they can make a positive contribution to society as a whole. Needless to say that you must believe in yourself and work hard towards making that dream into reality and I can assure you it is achievable but it can only be made possible by one's enterprise and resolution. Certainly, when dreaming turned out to be the right thing to do I felt as happy as the days were long for I am a believer in applying real focus on something constructive, like building bridges in the community through co-operation, using the power of sport to help tackle issues such as improving health and fitness, developing education for young people, and by working together in partnership or as part of a team in order to make a visible difference to people's lives. Indeed, learning is for life and the price is a good education. Certainly, this original thought has never been more important than now since it is at this time when the world is being blighted by a not cool to be clever attitude with a growing number of children failing to meet the academic requirement needed to be socially successful. Yeah! The need for stressing the moral values prescribed by society has never been so weighty and so Figueras Baseball Academy was launched with the purpose of giving a learning hand and advice to parents on how to get their offsprings enthusiastic about learning the game of baseball and softball. It is the view of the academy that parents ought to emphasise to their kids the importance of learning an interest in finding out about things, in order to stimulate their curiosity, and, of course, we encourage parents to support their children's school by attending open days and building relationships with coaches and galvanise their kids to think about education in the long term. There is wisdom in taking an interest in what is going on in the world and we are delighted to offer a breath of fresh air to the world and its social issues by opening a window of learning to everyone. Absolutely, we care for the world and its social issues and we think that it would be selfish if we said that it had nothing to do with us just simply because it does not affect us; on the contrary, we think we should always help when there is a problem in the world and give its misery a well-needed touch of guidance. The aim of the academy is excellence for All and it will continue to build on achieving high moral principles and straightforwardness through its enterprise.

 Pedro Figueras

Head Coach