{"id":199873,"date":"2018-08-27T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199873"},"modified":"2018-08-28T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T22:39:12","slug":"syrian-refugees-play-soccer-team-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/syrian-refugees-play-soccer-team-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugees to play for soccer team in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Five Syrian refugees living in Jordan will arrive in Brazil this Tuesday (28) to practice and play in Per\u00f3las Negras<\/a>, soccer team and school in the city of Paty do Alferes, Rio de Janeiro. The team was created by NGO Viva Rio<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re a feeder team, we educate, we try to place them in the market through soccer, in the sport field or not,\u201d said the marketing director of Viva Rio, Ronaldo Lapa.<\/p>\n

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P\u00e9rolas Negras held a draft at the Zaatari camp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group of Syrians includes four young players \u2013 Qais, Hadith, Ahmad and Omar \u2013 and the coach Jawdat. They will spend a year in the squad, training with the P\u00e9rolas Negras. \u201cWe went to Jordan and selected them at the Zaatari refugee camp, we spent 12 days over there,\u201d said Lapa.<\/p>\n

The executive describes P\u00e9rolas Negras as a \u201cworld team of refugees.\u201d In the team, there are players from Haiti, Venezuela and, now, Syria. The soccer club, however, is registered at the federation and compete in regular tournaments. According to Lapa, the team already competed twice in Copa S\u00e3o Paulo de Futebol J\u00fanior and won the championship of the C level (third level) of Campeonato Carioca (Rio de Janeiro state competition).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to project a positive image, not a negative one, not only of the Arabs in the West and here in Brazil, but of the refugees in general,\u201d said the executive.<\/p>\n

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Standing, from left to right, Sabbagh, Luz, Severe and Jawdat; down, Qais, Hadith, Ahmad, Omar and Hijazin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Brazil\u2019s ambassador in Amman, Jordan, Francisco Luz, the Asian Football Development Project (AFDP)<\/a>, organization chaired by Jordanian price Ali Bin Hussein, and the Jordan Football Association held a first player draft, selecting 150 among over 1,000 young Syrian refugees in the country. Later, the staff of Viva Rio visited Jordan and chose the five people to come to Brazil.<\/p>\n

The diplomat added that AFDP sponsors a soccer field in the Zaatari camp, in a partnership with UEFA<\/a>. The embassy lent support to the Brazilian NGO\u2019s mission, made contact with local partners, such as prince Ali and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR<\/a>) and worked in the process to obtain visas for the young players and the coach.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian embassy in Amman held a ceremony to hand the visas to the young players and it was covered by the local press. The Jordanian newspaper Jordan Times<\/a>, written in English, for instance, had a full coverage of the event last Monday (20). Joining the Syrian players and coach and the ambassador, also attended the ceremony the project\u2019s manager, Hashem Sabbagh, UNHCR representative in Jordan, Stefano Severe, and prince Ali\u2019s assistant, Paul Hijazin.<\/p>\n

Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n

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