Scholas Occurrentes
Solidarity Party “Commitments for Peace 2018” – Barranquilla Colombia
The Solidarity Party “Commitments for Peace, for the benefit of the Scholas Foundation, promoted by its holiness Pope Francis re-opened the Romelio Martínez Stadium of Barranquilla.
On April 28th, the Solidarity Party “Commitments for Peace” Barranquilla 2018 organized by Origen World Wide for the benefit of Inclusion and integration programmes of the Scholas Occurrentes Foundation; Pontifical Organization established by Pope Francisco. Present in 190 countries, with an educational network comprising more than 446,000 schools, both public and private, secular and of different religious denominations, its mission is to achieve the integration of all the young people of the world through education, promoting the culture of encounter, through sports, art and technology programmes.
Objective
Celebrate a friendly match between “Legends of World Football” and “Legends of Colombian Football”, as well as various activities in order to convey the values of the Occurant Scholas Foundation.
The Idea
The remodeled Romelio Martínez Stadium He opened his doors again for the celebration of a game in homage to the Pontifical Scholas Occurant Foundation. A meeting between world football legends and Colombian football legends, which left no one indifferent, ending with a result of 5 to 3 in favor of the Scholas Selection.
With the planting of the traditional “Olive of Peace” The party began with the participation of the world president of Scholas Occurantes, José María del Corral; the world director of Scholas, Enrique Palmeyro; the director of Scholas Colombia, Elsa Noguera, as well as different personalities of the city of Barranquilla.
Historical players like Jorge “Magico” Gómez, Marcos Senna, Leo Franco and Mauro Silva, among others dressed the shirt of the selection of legends Scholas Occurrentesunder the direction of the renowned 5-cup picker from the world, Bora Milutinovic.
Across the field, with Julio Comesaña in the direction defended the colors of the selection of Colombian legends players like “the kid” Valderrama, René Higuita, Faustino Asprila, Victor Pacheco or Jorge Bolaño, among others.
In addition to the meeting among the world legends, the canyoners experienced several surprises, like the one that meant, in the rest the entrance to the field of the children’s teams of the program called Scholas Futval (Score football).
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Barranquilla Colombia
From April 25 to 27, 30 teachers and more than 80 children were able to meet and enjoy Futval at the Sacred Heart College of Barranquilla.
This methodology aims to promote the “educational pact” through football, sport that teaches to relate and work as a team, to prioritize the common good among children and young people living in vulnerable contexts, and to involve them with the reality of their communities. Edgardo Broner, coordinator of the program, highlighted the remarkable training in values of local teachers and educators and the excellent response of children to the methodology taught.
The spectators also enjoyed the murals made by young barranquileros who participated the week before the meeting in the program Scholas Citizenship and “Beautiful Play”where players recognized as Recoba or Cavenaghi translated “their best play” into which, no doubt, it was a game of legend.
