UEFA Walking Football Cup – pilot edition 2024
As part of our ambition to mobilise the football community to promote healthy and active lifestyles and widen the engagement of players across all age groups, particularly older adults, we piloted our first-ever walking football event at UEFA HQ this week, the UEFA Walking Football Cup.
This inaugural event brought together four teams composed of adults aged 52 to 80 from England, Gibraltar, Portugal and Sweden to connect, share and test various adaptations to the Laws of the Game.
This initiative is part of a broader inclusion programme called FootbALL, which aims to harness football as a catalyst to foster positive change in society, with a simple yet significant message: In football, everyone is welcome…
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