Children 'Take Control' of Barcelona's first team and Board of Directors

Sport360 staff 23:23 20/11/2017
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  • A group of boys and girls to be first team players for a day.

    On Monday, World Children’s Day, Barcelona marked the occasion with UNICEF’s international campaign #KidsTakeOver.

    The campaign aims to make children the protagonists so that their voice is heard in the name of all those children who live in poverty, who cannot go to school, and who are victims of violence.

    At Barcelona, the children’s voices were heard in a special Board of Directors meeting headed by the President Josep Maria Bartomeu and the Vice President Jordi Cardoner.

    Specifically, the fifth-grade students from the primary school Brazil de Barcelona discussed important issues including fair play, the importance of women’s football and the inclusion of children with disabilities in sport with the maximum representatives of the club.

    The children were also the protagonists of the first team’s training session. To Ernesto Valverde’s surprise, the players were substituted for a few minutes by students from the school Nou Patufet from Gràcia in Barcelona.

    They also took over at Barca TV and they spent the day being journalists for the club’s official communication channel.

    UNICEF were also supported by other big names including the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau; the singer Pink; the actors Debora-lee Furness and Hugh Jackman; and the sportspeople David Villa, Pau Gasol, José Manuel Calderón, among others.

    The World Children’s Day is celebrated on the November 20 to commemorate the day in 1989 when the Convention on the Rights of the Child was passed.

    Josep Maria Bartomeu and Jordi Cardoner held a very special Board of Directors meeting on November 20.

    Josep Maria Bartomeu and Jordi Cardoner held a very special Board of Directors meeting on November 20.

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