New Delhi’s ‘Slum Soccer’ Among Nominees for Laureus Sport for Good Award

New Delhi-based Slum Soccer, a soccer undertaking aimed toward educating and elevating the homeless inhabitants within the Indian capital, was on Monday nominated for this 12 months’s Laureus Sport for Good Award.

The Laureus Sport for Good Award recognises a person or organisation whohas made a major contribution to remodeling the lives of youngsters and younger folks by means of sport.

Slum Soccer will compete with 4 different nominees for the award.

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Argentina’s soccer World Cup profitable captain Lionel Messi and Frace’s Kylian Mbappe, who scored a hat-trick within the remaining to earn the Golden Boot, have been among the many nominees for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award.

Formula One driver Max Verstappen joined Messi and tennis star Rafael Nadal as previous winners of this award on the 2023 shortlist.

Mondo Duplantis, who broke the pole vault world document on three events and gained world titles indoors and outside, and NBA star Steph Curry are the opposite nominees for the highest males’s award.

The race for the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award is led by two athletes who lit up the World Championships in Eugene, USA — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Katie Ledecky, who gained 4 golds, taking her complete to 22, a document for a feminine swimmer, footballer Alexia Putellas, Mikaela Shiffrin, who regained her general title on the Alpine Ski World Cup, and tennis participant Iga Świątek are the opposite nominees for the ladies’s prime award.

The nominees for the Laureus World Team of the Year Award embrace the Argentina males’s soccer group, which gained a 3rd World Cup, Real Madrid, who claimed their 14th title, NBA champions The Golden State Warriors, the Oracle Red Bull Racing group, France males’s rugby aspect and England ladies’s soccer group.

The award winners can be introduced on the Laureus World Sports Awards.

Tennis skills — Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina — have been nominated for the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.

Also nominated are the Morocco males’s soccer group who captivated the world on their journey to the semi-finals of the World Cup; Nathan Chen, the determine skater who added Olympic gold to a world title; and Tobi Amusan, who broke the 100m hurdles world document on the best way to claiming Nigeria’s first-ever gold medal on the World Athletics Championships.

The shortlist for the Laureus Sport for Good Award features a movement-based psychosocial assist intervention developed by War Child, Save the Children and UNICEF the Netherlands that makes use of bodily exercise to alleviate stress in youngsters affected by warfare or battle (TeamUp); one which makes use of boxing to problem stereotypes and empower younger ladies in Kenya (Boxgirls); a programme whose mission is to make sport inclusive for folks with disabilities in South Africa (Made For More) and a undertaking in Germany that makes use of motion sports activities to assist orphaned and migrant youngsters combine into new communities (High Five).

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