Club Atlético Osasuna is training more than 2,400 people involved with its sports and social projects in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Throughout the 2024/25 season, the club will extend first aid training to every player in its structure, coaches, employees, and users of social football programs for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly.

The campaign began by training 428 players from its men’s and women’s teams, including academy players at all levels and those at the network clubs. The course is through ‘El ABC que salva vidas’ (The ABC that saves lives) association and teaches the necessary knowledge to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use semi-automatic defibrillators. The training is completed with other first aid techniques, such as the Heimlich maneuver, a procedure to avoid obstruction of the respiratory tract in case of choking. Osasuna's courses have also involved 78 coaches and 67 employees in the club's different areas.

“For Club Atlético Osasuna, training its players, youth team coaches, and employees in first aid techniques is important. This way, we generate safe environments for sports practice in Tajonar and other facilities. Unfortunately, there are no health professionals in all the facilities, and the fact that the youth players know where to call, what to do in the event of a cardiorespiratory arrest, or how to use a defibrillator is significant. This is one more skill we are working on in our 'Tajonar Method' project, and our idea is to promote it every year,” explains the club's youth academy director, Ángel Alcalde.

In addition to the athletes and staff who make up the Osasuna structure directly, the club has also extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation training among the users of its social projects. One thousand eight hundred children, mainly between the ages of four and eight, receive the training through their monitors, previously instructed by 'El ABC que salva vidas.' The workshops are supported by 20 dolls donated by the association, with which they can practice their skills.

The training is extended to participants of the club’s football social programs. Therefore, participants from ‘Yo juego en Osasuna’ (I play at Osasuna), a program for people with intellectual disabilities and an extension of the Osasuna Genuine team, received the course. It is worth noting ‘Futboleando,’ a program with 80 participants geared toward senior citizens based on playing football while walking, will receive CPR training for the first time this season.