Washington, DC, January 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TO PUBLISH NOW
UPF Soccer Greets Massive Pele
Late World Cup Winner Attends Soccer Peace Cup
The Common Peace Federation (UPF) joins the world to supply its condolences to the household of Brazilian soccer legend Pele, who died on the age of 82 on December 29, 2022.
Pele is taken into account one of many biggest soccer gamers in historical past. Throughout the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, as a participant for Brazil’s legendary membership Santos, the US for the New York Cosmos and the Brazilian nationwide crew, Pele delighted followers world wide along with his fashionable play. He was often called the king of the “lovely recreation”, a phrase he invented.
The late co-founder of UPF, Rev. Solar Myung Moon has all the time had a imaginative and prescient of selling world peace by connecting folks of various religions, nationalities and races. With this concept, after the 2002 World Cup held in South Korea and Japan, he began the Peace Cup competitors in 2003 with the help of Pele.
Pele and Reverend Moon had so much in frequent: a love of peace and soccer. They met a number of instances, and when Pele died in 2012, Rev. He provided his condolences to Moon’s household.
Reverend Moon, who based skilled soccer groups in Korea and Brazil all through his life, wrote in his autobiography how he met Pele and the way the Brazilian star was instrumental in establishing the Peace Cup. The biennial occasion continued to draw the eye of world well-known golf equipment equivalent to Actual Madrid, Juventus, Porto and Tottenham.
UPF president Dr. “We at the moment are reminded of the eagerness and significance that Reverend Moon and his spouse, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, place on the function of sport as a instrument,” mentioned Thomas Walsh. for world peace.
“UPF co-founder Ms. Moon praised Pele’s achievements, particularly her work in establishing the primary Peace Cup in South Korea in 2003, which cheered soccer followers world wide. The UPF household, together with Ms. Moon, praised Pele’s achievements. “We admire it and imagine that his efforts to make use of soccer as a instrument for world peace can be remembered for a very long time.”
Media Contact Data:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr. William Selig, Communications Director, Common Peace Federation wselig@upf.org
Mr. Larry Moffitt, Vice President and Government Director, Washington Instances Basis LMoffitt@TWTFoundation.org
AFRICA
Mr. Mamadou Gaye gayemadou@mweb.co.za
ASIAN PACIFIC
Robert Kittel rskittel@gmail.com
CANADA
Mr. Pierre Beauregard pierrebeauregard.upf@gmail.com
EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST
mr peter zoehrer media@europe.upf.org
CENTRAL AMERICA/Caribbean
Mr. Mario Salinas msalinashn@gmail.com
SOUTH AMERICA
Physician Simao Feraboli upflatinamerica@gmail.com
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