{"id":16957,"date":"2026-10-16T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/entrevista\/sporting-clube-farense-discovered-padel-now-it-lacks-space-to-grow\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:46:16","slug":"sporting-clube-farense-discovered-padel-now-it-lacks-space-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"entrevista","link":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/entrevista\/sporting-clube-farense-discovered-padel-now-it-lacks-space-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Clube Farense discovered padel. Now it lacks space to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Faro, the capital of the Algarve, <strong>Sporting Clube Farense<\/strong> needs no introduction. Its black-and-white jersey, the S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds stadium, and a history that spans generations are part of the sporting memory of the southern region of Portugal. <strong>Football <\/strong>has always been its hallmark, but over time, its <strong>eclectic spirit<\/strong> has become increasingly evident. Away from the pitch and the ninety minutes, another discipline has begun to write its own history under the same emblem. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in the 1960s,<strong> Padel<\/strong> has become one of the fastest-growing and <strong>most widespread sports worldwide.<\/strong> According to the latest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/world-padel-report-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><i>World Padel Report 2026<\/i><\/strong>,<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published by the International Padel Federation (FIP), as of today, more than 40 million people practice it around the world. An evolution that has not gone unnoticed in Portugal, nor, by any means, by <strong>Sporting Clube Farense<\/strong>, which<strong> in March 2022 launched its own section.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In five years, the historic football club of the Algarve has become a regional benchmark for the 20&#215;10, with 15 teams, nearly 300 athletes, and more than a dozen national titles in a discipline that is emerging as a driver of youth training, integration, and economic sustainability. Its main obstacle remains the same as at its inception: finding land to build its own facilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16958,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"clasificacion":[177],"class_list":["post-16957","entrevista","type-entrevista","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","clasificacion-interview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entrevista\/16957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entrevista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/entrevista"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entrevista\/16957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17497,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entrevista\/16957\/revisions\/17497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16957"},{"taxonomy":"clasificacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clasificacion?post=16957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}