{"id":174471,"date":"2018-05-03T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=174471"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:55:10","slug":"corinthians-take-syrian-refugee-children-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/corinthians-take-syrian-refugee-children-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Corinthians to take Syrian refugee children into the field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The game ball that will be used in the soccer game between Corinthians and Cear\u00e1 on Sunday (6) morning at Arena Corinthians, in Itaquera district, for the Brazilian League, will be handed to the main referee by a Syrian child. She will be one of 44 refugee children that will take the field wearing the jersey \u201cTeam of the Peoples\u201d, an initiative organized by Corinthians, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the non-profit organization Lar S\u00edrio, the Archdiocesan Caritas of S\u00e3o Paulo, the Association of Sales and Marketing Directors of Brazil (ADVB) and by the development and construction company Cury.<\/p>\n<p>From the total of children, 18 were born in Syria and 26 are refugees from other countries, according to UNHCR. Kaysar, who participated in the reality show Big Brother Brasil, will serve as a translator for the children that don\u2019t speak Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to raise public awareness about Syria\u2019s humanitarian crisis. C\u00e1ssio, the goalkeeper and Corinthians\u2019 team captain, will wear a captain\u2019s armband with the UNHCR logo. The players\u2019 names on the jerseys will be written in Arabic \u2013 and some of them will be auctioned after the game. Banners will be distributed to the fans and the stadium\u2019s screens will display messages for peace.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNHCR, over half of the 22.5 million refugees across the world are children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-174468\">Daniel Augusto Jr.\/Ag\u00eancia Corinthians<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative, organized by the S\u00e3o Paulo-based soccer team and UNHCR, aims to raise public awareness about the humanitarian crisis in the Arab country. In all, 44 children will take the field with the team\u2019s players before the game against Cear\u00e1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":174468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066,109],"tags":[2466,2468,2469,1980,2464,2467,471,14870,2269,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-174471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-arena-corinthians","10":"tag-big-brother-brasil","11":"tag-cassio","12":"tag-ceara","13":"tag-corinthians","14":"tag-kaysar","15":"tag-refugee","16":"tag-sirio-en","17":"tag-syrian","18":"tag-unhcr"},"wps_subtitle":"The initiative, organized by the S\u00e3o Paulo-based soccer team and UNHCR, aims to raise public awareness about the humanitarian crisis in the Arab country. In all, 44 children will take the field with the team\u2019s players before the game against Cear\u00e1.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}