The event, inspired by the “Games Without Borders” format, saw athletes with and without disabilities protagonists, united in inclusive and symbolic races. Present the Minister of Sport, former football and rugby champions, all involved as “captains” of the teams
A real games without borders with many excellent guests and the usual energy of Bebe Vio. The Wembrace Games, now in its thirteenth edition, went on stage tonight at the Marble Stadium in Rome. The Parolimpica champion presented the evening to which the minister of sport Andrea Abadi, the councilor Onorato, the former players Daniele De Rossi, Marco Materazzi, Stefano Fiore and Bernardo Corradi and the ex-Rugbanist Martín Castrogiovanni did not want to miss. Abodi on the sidelines of the event also dealt with the theme linked to the national team. “Italian football is in a moment of transition. But now it is not important to think about defeat but to think and understand the reasons for this defeat. There are defeats of field and life, if there is an improper relationship it is evident that the matches off the pitch are even more important,” said the minister.
De Rossi and the mobile phone
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No comments on the other hand from De Rossi, one of the hot names for the after Spalletti in blue. Apart from a small sketch on stage with the Medusa trio: “I have the phone on you never know”. Everyone had symbolic captains for the boys engaged in games divided into various categories including snowboarding, football, basketball and wheelchair race. And which participated by the representatives of Bari, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna and Tokyo, the inspiration of an event, which has now become a fixed stop, came from the famous TV format Games without frontiers as evidenced by the original name Games without barriers: barriers such as social and physical ones, which can be overcome by actively involving people with and without disabilities together, enhancing diversity and promoting concrete actions. Concrete just like the evening of fun that since 2022 has been known as Wembrace or, literally, “we embrace”. At the same time as the event, a fundraiser for Art4Sport, which supports and promotes sport as the ideal therapy for the physical and psychological recovery of children and young people with limb prostheses.
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