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Three, two, one.. Antiracist World Cup is kick off
Matches without referees, in total 204 teams without distinction of sex, age and nationality. Football, basket, volleyball and cricket will be on. The Antiracist World Cup this year will take place in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) from the 11th to the15th of July. This year the event will have a novity: matches will be played without referees because they want to represent an invitation to tolerance and cohabitation. The “Antiracist World Cup”, organized from Progetto Ultrà-Uisp Emilia-Romagna and from Istituto storico Istoreco of Reggio-Emilia, are at its 11th edition and this year in the 17 fields of the Centre Salvador Allende of Casalecchio.
Teams- Mixed teams composed of women, men, young, children (for example a team including children from Chernobyl), and people from all over the world such as Congo, Ukraine, Byelorussia will play in the fields till Sunday. Finally, on Sunday there will be the Prize-giving even if prizes won’t be for the proper winners of matches, but for “who have done the longer travel”, “who have made the greater shouting”, “who have the most beautiful T-shirt”. More important a prize will be given to whom will have done more this year to fight against racism.
Not only sports- Besides sports many other events will take place: meetings, exhibitions, conferences, concerts (Skarnemuta, Clampdown, Sonic Boom Six). This year are in the program: a walk in Montesole to not forget the Marzabotto’s massacre, the World Movie Festival an exhibition of videos about football and racism and a photo competition on multiculturalism (photos will be exposed in the Antiracist Place).
The spirit of the event- The “Antiracist World Cup” are something more than a sportive manifestation: it represents a cultural event, a “laboratory against discrimination”.
“In a period in which differences are criminalized and the Other becomes an enemy to fight against” explain the organizers “we want to turn the enemy in someone to meet, someone to understand, someone with whom share, if not life, a field"
