Yesterday at the UN Headquarters the multimedia exhibit \u201cPaolo Rossi, a golden boy\u201d was inaugurated, co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and the Paolo Rossi Foundation, with Marco Tardelli and Federica Cappelletti, President of the FIGC Women\u2019s Professional Premier League and wife of 1982 World Cup champion, who died prematurely.<\/p>\n
The exhibit, open until June 7, is part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of Italy\u2019s admission to the United Nations in 2025, and is meant to mark the second World Football Day, the international day established by the UN General Assembly (which falls annually on May 25).<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we tell a story that is not only Italian but universal. Pablito is the epitome of sportsmanship, resilience, humility and social commitment to the weakest. His legacy is the spirit of solidarity that continues to live through the Foundation that bears his name, dedicated to support projects for children in fragile conditions and in developing countries. With this exhibit that tells the story of his life and his triumphs, we celebrate the transformative power of sport and football and their contribution to the sustainable development of many communities around the world,\u201d commented Ambassador Massari. The event also cast light on the recent launch by Minister Tajani of the program \u201cItaly runs towards the future\u201d, aimed at offering scholarships in the sports sector to young people from 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
Robert Skinner, UN head of the \u201cFootball for the Goals\u201d initiative and of relations with FIFA, and Ambassador Taher El-Sonni, co-president of the \u201cGroup of Friends of Football\u201d at the United Nations (which also includes Italy among its members) participated in the inauguration, too.<\/p>\n
The exhibit, sponsored by FIFA, retraces the main moments of \u201cPablito\u2019s\u201d football career, displaying trophies such as the Golden Ball and the Golden Boot of the World Cup, and involves visitors through virtual reality screens that allow to relive the three goals scored by Italy against Brazil in 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday at the UN Headquarters the multimedia exhibit \u201cPaolo Rossi, a golden boy\u201d was inaugurated, co-organized by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and the Paolo Rossi Foundation, with Marco Tardelli and Federica Cappelletti, President of the FIGC Women\u2019s Professional Premier League and wife of 1982 World Cup champion, who died prematurely. […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}