Liberi Nantes, the successful story of integration through sport

2018-06-21T10:31:10+00:00June 21st, 2018|

Even if the obstacles seem to be insuperable, between a thousand misadventures and after months of referrals, sometimes dreams come true. Today, we want to celebrate the World Refugee Day, just remembered on the 20th of June, telling you the successful story of integration begun in 2007, when a group of young people from Rome [...]

Sandro Testinha, the guy who beated crime by skatebording

2018-06-07T10:40:07+00:00June 7th, 2018|

As often history shows, even the most difficult disputes can be defeated through unthinkable means just based on the own sense of humanity. This has happened in the case of Sandro Soares, the Brazilian guy who, fond of skateboarding, has made his favourite sports the special weapon to beat the São Paulo underworld [...]

The old woman who climbed Kilimanjaro to fulfill a promise

2018-05-31T10:37:43+00:00May 31st, 2018|

There are some deals which last for years and years, until to be delivered. This is the case of Angela Vorobyova, the 86-years-old woman who managed to climb the Kilimanjaro, establishing the new Guinness World Record, in order to keep a promise made 70 years ago. Angela, currently a retired teacher from Ulan-Ude, comes [...]

Rob Pope, the real Forrest Gump who ran for charity

2018-05-24T09:00:54+00:00May 24th, 2018|

Sometimes you can find motivation to do your best being inspiring by the famous deeds of fictional and brave characters: if you meet him, you will feel the impulse to tell him “Run Forrest, run!” Today our inspirational story is given by British Rob Pope story, the man who found the inspiration in [...]

Jaba Kankava, the Georgian footballer who saved his opponent’s life

2018-05-10T09:36:42+00:00May 10th, 2018|

Life is priceless. Today we want to inspire you by the sports moment in which this famous saying has literally translated into reality, when the Georgian footballer Jaba Kankava saved Dinamo Kiev player's life after a terrible collision during a game. The matter dates back to 2014 and it took part into the Ukrainian Premier League, the [...]

Danny Williams, the English boxer who fought one-armed

2018-05-03T10:03:09+00:00May 3rd, 2018|

When everything seems to be lost, you need to climb higher once more.  We want to inspire you with the story of the brave endurance of Danny Williams, the English heavyweight boxer who managed to win the match against his rival Mark Potter in the Wembley Conference Center on 21th of October in [...]

Gino Bartali, the road cyclist who saved 800 Jews

2018-04-26T12:52:11+00:00April 26th, 2018|

The 25th of April is remembered in Italy and Portugal as the Liberation Day from German Nazi occupation. We want to celebrate the event mentioning a sports story which for years has been hidden by the protagonist himself, Gino Bartali, one of the most important names in the history of cycling, who saved between 1943 and [...]

The San Francisco Dons Football standing against racism

2018-04-19T09:53:15+00:00April 19th, 2018|

The last weekend we remembered the Jackie Robinson's Day, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era (here his full story). Connected with his fiction, there is a less known battle for the black civil rights run by the sportswriter Lester "Red" Rodney: he fighted against baseball’s color [...]

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