FIFA 2
While the world is following this year's FIFA championships in South Africa -- with the upcoming final between Netherlands and Spain, most people do NOT know that starting Sunday there is a 2nd FIFA tournamnet being held in South Africa. As with the Paralympics -- which follow the regular Olympics in the same host city/country --soccer has its own 'special' second tournament.
Called the FIFA 2010 Football for Hope Festival, it hosts 32 teams of young people with 8 players per side.
The Israeli team, by the way, is truly egalitarian - 4 males, 4 females; 4 Jewish Isrealis and 4 Arabs; one Arab coach and one Jewish Israeli.
Will there be TV coverage? Will this, youth focussed program receive the publicity and praise it deserves? Will anyone but immediate relatives and friends care as to who wins and who even participated?
Let us keep an eye out and see what the media do.
(info from The Canadian Jewish News, July 8, 2010, pages 1, 28)
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