{"id":199790,"date":"2018-08-23T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199790"},"modified":"2018-08-23T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:21:51","slug":"refugee-cup-begin-next-weekend-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/refugee-cup-begin-next-weekend-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Cup to begin next weekend in S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The S\u00e3o Paulo leg of the Refugee Cup will be played over the next two weekends. The city is hosting the competition for the fifth time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNHCR<\/a>) said this Thursday (23).<\/p>\n<p>The teams will be drawn into groups at 9 am on Friday (25) at sports complex <em>Centro Ol\u00edmpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa<\/em> (<em>COTP<\/em>) in Vila Clementino, a district in south side S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>The championship will feature 320 refugee and migrant players in 16 national teams: Angola, Cameroon, South Korea, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Togo, Venezuela, and Arab countries Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Refugee Cup is held by NGO\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africadocoracao.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00c1frica do Cora\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a>\u00a0and its theme is <em>N\u00e3o me julgue antes de me conhecer<\/em> (or Don\u2019t judge me before you get to know me). The tournament is supported by the UNHCR, by S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s municipal secretariats for Sports and Leisure, International Relations and Human Rights, and by Sodexo On-Site.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UNHCR, two legs of the championship have been played this year: Senegal won in Porto Alegre, and Angola (<em>pictured above<\/em>) won in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact sheet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Refugee Cup opening ceremony and group draws<br \/>\nFriday 24, 9 am<br \/>\n<em>Centro Ol\u00edmpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa<\/em> (<em>COTP<\/em>),\u00a0Auditorium 1<br \/>\nRua Pedro de Toledo, 1,651, Vila Clementino<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates and Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aug. 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 8 am-6 pm, Jardim S\u00e3o Paulo, Rua Parque Domingos Lu\u00eds, 566: round of 16<br \/>\nAug. 26, 8 am-5 pm, Parque da Aclima\u00e7\u00e3o, Rua Muniz de Sousa, 1,119: quarter-finals<br \/>\nSept. 1, 8 am-3 pm, Est\u00e1dio Vila Manchester, Pra\u00e7a Haroldo Daltro, no number: semifinals and third-place playoff<br \/>\nSept. 2, 9 am-noon, Est\u00e1dio do Canind\u00e9, Rua Comendador Nestor Pereira, 33: final match<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-199788\">Miguel Pachioni\/UNHCR<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The football championship will take place during the next two weekends in the city, with 16 national teams comprising 320 refugee and migrant players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":199788,"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":[109],"tags":[4607,471,4608,29862,290,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-199790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-africa-do-coracao","9":"tag-refugee","10":"tag-refugee-cup","11":"tag-sao-paulo-en-2","12":"tag-sao-paulo","13":"tag-unhcr"},"wps_subtitle":"The football championship will take place during the next two weekends in the city, with 16 national teams comprising 320 refugee and migrant players. 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