Ukrainian war: Juventus coach in Hungary to rescue 80 children

Juve on the pitch for the humanitarian emergency caused by the war in Ukraine. After a collection of basic necessities, clothes and medicines that involved all the employees of the club and some schools in the city, the two buses used for the trips of the main teams – and some company cars – reached the Hungarian city of Zahony, on the Ukrainian border. The Juventus delegation of about twenty people – led by the managing director Maurizio Arrivabene, with the presence of Deniz Akalin (partner of Andrea Agnelli) and the health manager Luca Stefanini – accompanied eighty people to Italy, where they arrived in the morning. and children between 6 and 14 years – who will be guests in the Hotel Santa Maria in La Morra (province of Cuneo), made available to the Piedmont Region and the Civil Protection.

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The 2800-kilometer expedition (round trip) left from Continassa last Friday, the caravan reached its destination on Saturday and was welcomed by the mayor of Zahony. The Juventus staff also included a voluntary psychologist and a pediatrician, the operations on site were facilitated by the help of the Hungarian Consul General Jeno Csiszar. Some of the people rescued were recovered following a request for help from the Ukrainian Football Association to support the children of the football schools evacuated from Kiev, Kharkiv and other areas affected by the bombings.

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The club’s note: “The images of a war in the heart of our continent have struck the women and men of Juventus and have provoked a mobilization that has touched everyone. You could not observe without acting. You could not comment without trying every day. every way to set up an operation. The war in Ukraine, day after day is generating pain and death, but above all it is destroying the daily life of millions of people, forced to take refuge outside their country. This is why Juventus in the day today it has not only taken the field in Genoa: there are moments in which it is necessary to demonstrate that we are close to those who suffer with concrete actions “.