Refugee children invited on the pitch at the European Super Cup final | OneFootball

In occasion of the UEFA European Super Cup Final between Paris Saint-Germain FC and Tottenham Hotspur, the UEFA Foundation, together with Inter Campus, Fondazione Progetto Arca Onlus and Fondazione di Comunità Milano, will host nine refugee children, coming from Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, and Ukraine. Their childhoods were marked by conflict and violence, which drove them far from home and undermined their Human Rights.

They will also participate in the opening ceremony displaying a banner “Stop Killing Civilians” during the teams’ line-up.

Two of them, Tala and Mohamed, will take part in the medals’ ceremony alongside UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin.

12-year-old Tala is a young Palestinian girl with fragile health who was transferred to Milan to receive appropriate medical care, as the adequate equipment was lacking in Gaza after the start of the war.

Tala will be joined on the podium by 9-year-old Mohamed, who lost his parents during the war and was severely injured following an air strike. Due to the seriousness of his condition and his young age, Mohamed and his grandmother were fortunate enough to leave Gaza and were welcomed in Milan, where Mohamed is currently undergoing medical treatment.