This is a message to the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, with students who took part in the Spirit of Football Fair Play Workshop at Colegio Bandeirantes in Sao Paulo, Brazil this evening. The President of Honduras met The Ball in Honduras and asked Spirit of Football to support his idea for the Honduran Ball of Peace. The Honduran Ball of Peace is about to finish the first leg of its peace and security mission having already visited 18 regions of Honduras in the last 2 months. The President will personally deliver The Ball to the Honduran National Team at the World Cup.
To support or not to support, that is the question. A moral conundrum facing many Brazilians 10 days before the start of the World Cup. Hundreds of Brazilians in a downtown food market, sitting at tables, standing at bars watching Brazil play Panana in a World Cup warm-up match. The atmosphere is strangely tense. The people are angry at FIFA. Angry at their corrupt politicians. But they love their football. Free kick. Magnificent goal from Neymar. Men jump out of their seats. Then catch themselves. As if in this very moment they are asking themselves: Can I support Brazil? By supporting Brazil, do I accept what has happened? Do I just accept the corruption? It is a very difficult moral argument that many Brazilians seem to be having with themselves. The reality is that if Brazil wins, people are likely to get caught up in that emotion. And with all that is riding on this for the powers that be, we can expect Brazil to win. And then the winner is… FIFA.
Sport and recreation facilities accessable to people across the entire country, investment in FIFA grade public transport & FIFA grade hospitals & in education (not transit lounges, fancy hotels and white elephant stadiums) – this could have been the legacy of the FIFA World Cup. But it won’t be.
14 Powerful Pictures Of Anti-Fifa Graffiti In Brazil
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Brazilians are angry. They are angry with their government for pumping millions of dollars into the funding of an eight-week extravagance.
The Ball 2014 was hand-made in a rehabilitation project called Painting Freedom in the Franco da Rocha Prison just outside of São Paulo. Today it went back to meet its maker. Photos courtesy of Caio Vilela
At the start of January this year, The Ball was hand made by Allejandro in the rehabilitation project Pintando a Liberdade at Franco da Rocha Prison just outside of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The music video Beautiful Game by New Model Army begins with the making of The Ball. Tomorrow, The Ball that has been kicked, headed and signed by 17,000 people in 25 countries in the last 5 months goes back to meet its maker. Spirit of Football will be making a presentation of The Ball`s journey to the inmates who are involved in the project in the prison and then playing a game of fair play football. Tomorrow The Ball goes full circle. One Ball, One World.
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Spirit of Football & New Model Army ” The Beautiful Game”
New Model Army have recorded a fantastic song called “Beautiful Game” and dedicated it to The Ball. To all fans of football around the world, enjoy the song!…
The World Cup for outsiders: From genocide to glory…
The World Cup for outsiders: From genocide to glory
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Ahead of the biggest game of his life, Mahamat “Iggy” Ignegui has mastered the diplomatic language, if not his nerves.
Fernando Godoy, Director of Spirit of Football Brazil SOF2014 , takes us on a tour of some of the memorabilia that Spirit of Football has collected in the 25 countries en route to Brazil in 2014. This forms part of the the Spirit of Football exhibition that opened today in Porto Feliz. Porto Feliz is hosting the Honduran National Team during the World Cup. The mayor of Porto Feliz was especially interested to find out about the Honduran Ball of Peace that was called into life by the Honduran President Juan Hernandez and Spirit of Football over 1 month ago.
***The people of Porto Feliz were some of the first we have met so far in Brazil who are happy about the World Cup.
A friend of Spirit of Football`s wanted to go and see the World Cup Trophy, which was on display in Sao Paulo. She waited in line and found out that the entry price was 2 bottles of Coca Cola per person. This is after all the Coca Cola Trophy Tour. So people wait in line, often for a long time, to be forced to buy coca-cola and then have the chance to see the trophy in a bullet proof glass case. What are your thoughts? Is this the spirit of football?
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Is this what the FIFA World Cup has become? Forced evictions, the unfathomable corruption and greed of a few, the angry and desperate masses. The country that celebrates football more than any other needs hospitals and schools, education and health care and affordable public transport not white elephant stadiums, fancy hotels and senseless infrastructure projects. What can we do to change football and society friends? The game we all love is being taken away from us! Isn`t it time to take a stand? One Ball, One World.
FOTOS: Preparativos del Mundial de Fútbol 2014
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En estos momentos, a menos de un mes de que empiece el Mundial 2014, el Gobierno de Brasil está desalojando miles de familias para que el mundo no tenga una mala imagen del país. ¿Qué opinás?
The Spirit of Football exhibition opened today in Porto Feliz, Brazil. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the SoF Brazil team and the guys at Flex fro bring the journeys of The Ball in 2002, 2006, 2010 & 2014 to life.
