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African Cup of Nations. Spain shall miss eleven footballers
Just for once in Spain we shall realize that we need Africa for something important. The 27th edition of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) started on January 10 in Angola. Sixteen teams shall play hard for a dream: to become the kings of a continent that shall live its great moment in June at the World Cup in South Africa. The tournament started... AMPLIAR
Red Deporte 2010 Solidarity Desk Diary
Red Deporte is publishing a 2010 Solidarity Desk Diary. it will be out on January 5 and its main theme is 'Soccer in Africa'. The weekly magazine 'Don Balón' will give a copy to all who will buy a copy on that day. The diary opens with a foreword by Fernando Hierro, chairman of Spain's Soccer Federation, and it features many African footballers... AMPLIAR
Red Deporte begins new project in Tinduf saharawi settlements
Red Deporte staff member Antolin Pulido left for Tinduf (Algeria) last December 24. There he will start a new project in the Saharui refugee settlements. He will be joined this month of January by Maria Martin Laguna.
The two will work together supervising the building of a multi-purpose sport ground in the 'Doce deOctubre' Secondary School,... AMPLIAR
A hundred balls for South Africa. Fabio Celestini's solidarity brights up kids' future
Last December 17, Fabio Celestini, a footballer from Getafe F.C., handed to our NGO Red Deporte y Cooperación, a hundred balls that shall be sent to a Salesian school in Ennerdales, a Johannesburg township, in South Africa. Its 1,400 pupils come from homes in poor surroundings.
During the last two years, Red Deporte has been working in this... AMPLIAR
The Salesians are one 150 years young!
It is half past seven in the morning and the sun shines with all its might in the courtyard of Tonj Primary School, a Salesian institution in the heart of South Sudan. The bell has just rung and hundreds of boys and girls line up donning light blue uniforms. At 14 or 15, many of them still attend Primary Two or Primary Four because hardly four... AMPLIAR
African footballers in Spain. 'The future of soccer is in Africa'
Touré, Diarra, Manucho, Zokora, Boateng, are but a few of the more outstanding African footballers playing in Spanish teams. During the last few weeks Red Deporte has contacted some of them and asked them how people live soccer in Africa and their expectations about the forthcoming World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2010. We offer our... AMPLIAR
'When you play soccer you have to put your heart in it'. Boateng
'In Africa we love soccer. We play on the streets, in the village, at school... always putting much passion in what we do'. Derek Boateng, the Ghanaian midfielder from Getafe F.C. speaks from his own experience. His career as a footballer started when he was only ten years old in two of his country's teams: BT International and Liberty Perfection.... AMPLIAR
International Volunteers' Day
December 5 marks the Volunteers’ International Day. In Red Deporte we have always had the cooperation of many people who have given the best of themselves to help our beneficiaries for no pay. One of them, Laura Crespo, tells us her experience last January and February in the project we had in Inhambane (Mozambique). During that time Laura... AMPLIAR
World AIDS Day. Our experience in Zambia
Lusaka. Zambia. A group of school children play the following game: they all stand in a circle, hands in the back, and they pass a tennis ball until someone guesses who has it. The one keeping it comes in the middle and lets himself fall backwards while his companions hold him. Then they withdraw, one by one, until he collapses.
This is one of... AMPLIAR
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