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A most peculiar league in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo)

That people in Africa are masters of squeezing everything, including spaces, is something I already knew. But when last Sunday March 21 I watched seven soccer matches taking place simultaneously in the same stadium in Goma I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Welcome to the Don Bosco kids’ league, that since 1981 has been going on in the... AMPLIAR

Antolín Pulido: 'I have seen people in Sahara settling disputes with soccer'

Born in Toledo and educated in Cuba and Colombia, Antolín Pulido has spent most of his life in a number of African and Latin American countries working in humanitarian projects and in mediation in conflict-ridden societies. Ever since his first working experience at the Tinduf’s Saharwi settlement in 1987, he has been there in seven... AMPLIAR

Online ticket purchase bars many Africans from travelling to World Cup

Fans in the African countries that have qualified for the World Cup in South Africa say tickets are being sold on the internet (through the FIFA website), to which they have limited access. Furthermore, even if they could afford tickets, few African fans have credit cards, needed for online purchases. The BBC World Today programme quoted Kini... AMPLIAR

Red Deporte in this week's Madrid sport-and-development cultural events

Red Deporte shall take part in two cultural events on sport and development this week in Madrid. On March 2 (Tuesday) our staff Antolín Pulido shall give a conference in Fundación Sur (C/ Gaztambide 31), beginning at 19:00 h. He shall speak about his experience running one of our projects in the Sahrawi settlements in Tinduf (Algeria). Pulido has... AMPLIAR

Exhibition on African soccer at University of Valencia

Painted baskets, wood carvings or colourful fabrics. These are some of the materials used to express how people in Africa feel about soccer and present in the shifting exhibition that Red deporte has been showing for the past two years. Part of it was displayed at the Faculty of Sport Science in the University of Valencia, during the seminar on... AMPLIAR

Sahara Marathon. One thousand running for freedom

Nearly one thousand runners took part last February 22 on the Sahara Marathon, a sport event organized by the Sahrawi Sport State Secretariat and two Italian and Spanish NGO, among them Red Deporte. This race has reached its tenth year of existence and still has the same aim for which it was started: to remind the world about the Sahrawi people... AMPLIAR

Fifteen Spanish pupils to stay with South African youth during the World Cup

The Soccer World Cup is due to kick off in South Africa on June 11. For the host country, this event is a golden chance to showcase a good image of its society. South Africa expects to capitalize of the tournament to attract investors and tourists even once the matches are over. Organizers predict an estimate half a million visitors –mostly... AMPLIAR

FIFA president hits back at World Cup venue critics

Colonialists over the past 100 years have gone to Africa and taken out all the best things, and now they are taking all the best footballers. There's no respect.' With these words, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has hit back at critics of South Africa hosting the World Cup, particularly Bayern Munich h president Uli Hoeness , who has said awarding... AMPLIAR

Sport items for Ethiopia at the Merida 4th Half Marathon

Registration is open for signing up for the 4th Half Marathon ‘Merida, World Heritage’. The race will take place on March 7, departing at 11:00 h. The event has been organized by Asociación de Atletas Populares de Mérida and the city council of Merida. Participants are invited to donate on that day sport material, new or used but in... AMPLIAR

Vicente Iraizoz, aid worker in Zambia. 'Sport fills many empty lives'

When a girl thinks of next Saturday s match, her mind is no focused on the problems she has at home’. Vicente Iraizoz, an aid worker who has been working for Red Deporte during the last two years in Zambia, knows it well. During this time he has worked in the City of Hope, a Salesian-run school with over 1,200 boys and girls who come from... AMPLIAR