UN / SDGS INTER MILAN

Members of the Inter Milan football team took part of an event at UN Headquarters affirming the role of sports in promoting and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:26
• Production Date: 28 July 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: AHMAD ALHENDAWI
• Subject Topical: SPORTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Geographic Subject: ITALY
• MAMS Id: 1683200
• Parent Id: 1683200
• Alternate Title: unifeed160728e

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STORY: UN / SDGS INTER MILAN
TRT: 01:26
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NO0NE
LANGAUGE: ITALIAN / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

28 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Pan right, Inter Milan team
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Javier Zanetti, Vice President, Inter Milan:
“We are here to support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations which Inter Milan through Inter Campus, contributes to their achievement: to end poverty, associating our commitment with sports and schools to guarantee a promising future; to assure a healthy lifestyle and teach a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition, and to protect health through playing in safe places and not on the streets.”
5. Med shot, children wearing Inter Milan jerseys
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Alhendawi, United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth:
“The math is very simple. We have 17 goals that we are trying to achieve in 15 years. That’s a key thing; we have more goals than years. And that’s why we have no time to waste. And we cannot afford to waste anyone or to lose anyone not to be part of this march. And there, sport is extremely powerful.”
7. Various shots, Inter Milan players on stage

Storyline

Members of the Inter Milan football team took part of an event today (28 July) at United Nations Headquarters affirming the role of sports in promoting and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

On Wednesday the Italian team played a friendly game against Argentinean team Estudiantes De La Plata at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ. The SDGs logos were flashed on the advertisement boards during the game and attendees were encouraged to visit the SDGs website.

At today’s event, Inter Milan’s Vice- President and former player Javier Zanetti, said Inter Milan, through their Inter Campus programme, “contributes to their achievement: to end poverty, associating our commitment with sports and schools to guarantee a promising future; to assure a healthy lifestyle and teach a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition, and to protect health through playing in safe places and not on the streets.”

Also speaking at the event, the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, Ahmad Alhendawi, said “the math is very simple. We have 17 goals that we are trying to achieve in 15 years. That’s a key thing; we have more goals than years. And that’s why we have no time to waste. And we cannot afford to waste anyone or to lose anyone not to be part of this march. And there, sport is extremely powerful.”

The Declaration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights the importance of sport as “an important enabler of sustainable development.”

It recognizes “the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect, and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as health, education and social inclusion objectives."