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Finalists revealed – getting ready to celebrate the FIFA Diversity Award 2019!

FIFA is delighted to announce the three finalists of the FIFA Diversity Award 2019. Through their community-based projects, Fútbol Más Foundation, PlayOnside and Watoto Wasoka have all championed diversity, fought discrimination and promoted integration through football. “Now in its fourth year, the FIFA Diversity Award continues to be a platform …

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Horn of Africa Development Initiative wins FIFA Diversity Award 2018!

A global sport that transcends boundaries, football has the remarkable ability to bring us all together; uniting everyone under a shared love of the beautiful game. Division and discrimination, however, still exists in society and can manifest itself in different forms. Kenya’s Horn of Africa Development Initiative (HODI), who are …

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Finalists of the FIFA Diversity Award 2018 revealed!

FIFA today announced the list of finalists for the third edition of the FIFA Diversity Award, with the winner to be revealed at an award ceremony in London on September 23, 2018. With this award, FIFA recognises an outstanding organisation, group initiative or personality that is standing up for diversity and …

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FIFA Diversity Award 2017 crowns Soccer Without Borders!

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura awarded the trophy of the FIFA Diversity Award 2017 to Soccer Without Borders, an organisation using football as the key tool to build the confidence and assist with the integration of young refugees in places like the United States and Uganda. The American-based institution was …

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India’s Slum Soccer receives inaugural FIFA Diversity Award!

Indian NGO Slum Soccer has won the inaugural FIFA Diversity Award yesterday, September 26. The award was created by FIFA to recognise outstanding organisations, group initiatives and football personalities that are standing up for diversity and inspire unity, solidarity and equality among all people. Slum Soccer uses football to connect …

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Inaugural FIFA Diversity Award to be presented at Soccerex!

FIFA can today announce that its first-ever FIFA Diversity Award will be presented at the Soccerex Global Convention on Monday, September 26, 2016 in Manchester, England. The FIFA Diversity Award highlights the importance of the fight against exclusion and discrimination, and will recognise an outstanding organisation, group initiative or football …

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Seedorf, Hitzlsperger & Wambach join the jury of the first FIFA Diversity Award!

FIFA is very pleased to announce today the remaining six personalities who will join the jury of the first-ever FIFA Diversity Award. The 11 members of the jury, including former football professionals and experts, have a wealth of global experience in various areas of diversity and anti-discrimination, whether related to …

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