45th Interamnia world cup brochure | Page 20

United World Team for Peace On the occasion of its 32nd edition, the Interamnia World Cup created a particularly prestigious event. This gave the opportunity to 24 players from 5 different continents to be part of one unique ideal team, called “The United World Team”, also known as “The Team for Peace” for 7 days. This team was made up of players from countries at war, living in a tense political and diplomatic environment. The players came from China and Taiwan, South and North Korea, India and Pakistan, Iraq and Kuwait, Iran, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, the United States of America and Vietnam and Afghanistan, Morocco and Algeria; Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia; Turkey and Cyprus with the cohesive participation of Italy as the host country and one player from Australia to give the whole experience a universal meaning. This unprecedented event highlighted the importance of overcoming all conflicts as well as their physical and non-physical borders which divide peoples and cultures. .