André Villas-Boas: Committed to serving community and members | OneFootball

FC Porto, the Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto, and the Local Health Unit of Gaia and Espinho from the Northern Rehabilitation Center (CRN) have signed a cooperation protocol aimed at promoting inclusion through sports. The agreement seeks to establish adapted sports as a tool for social inclusion, citizenship, and dignity, with a special focus on wheelchair basketball and handball.

During the formalization of the protocol, which contributes to the “eclectic growth of FC Porto,” André Villas-Boas thanked the involved entities “for their efficiency” and for contributing to the “growth of adapted sports at FC Porto,” following “the commitment to better serve the community and the members.”

“More than celebrating the speed and efficiency of signing this protocol and other initiatives, it is important that FC Porto is a great engine in the service of inclusion, citizenship, and equality,” explained the Porto president before recalling that “at the entrance of the Estádio das Antas there was a phrase, and that phrase said that FC Porto was at the service of youth and sports”: “It is in this sense that we want to continue to better serve.”

Commitment assumed“Within the scope of this protocol, there is an eclectic growth of FC Porto, particularly in adapted sports, so I want to thank the Santa Casa da Misericórdia and the Local Health Unit of Gaia and Espinho for creating this protocol, for the efficiency in signing it, and for quickly providing us with this service, firstly with the provision of wheelchairs for the practice of adapted basketball at FC Porto, which recently debuted and was a tremendous success. Therefore, the goal is to continue the growth of adapted sports at FC Porto, we have the commitment to better serve the community and the members, and in this way, we view the creation of this protocol with great joy.”

At the service of youth and sports“Fortunately, we have taken great steps in this direction, towards inclusion and equality, and I want to express appreciation to the teams and professionals of FC Porto, particularly Teresa Santos, responsible for Sustainability, and Joana Teixeira, who is the director of adapted sports. FC Porto has this obligation, more than celebrating the speed and efficiency of signing this protocol and other initiatives, it is important that FC Porto is a great engine in the service of inclusion, citizenship, and equality. I recently recalled something that the more nostalgic will remember, that at the entrance of the Estádio das Antas there was a phrase and that phrase said that FC Porto was at the service of youth and sports. It is in this sense that we want to continue to better serve.”

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