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Coca-Cola announces team for ‘Special Olympics Unity Cup’
The Coca-Cola Company, together with Special Olympics, has announced its roster of celebrities and football legends who will participate alongside 16 Special Olympics athletes in the inaugural match of the ‘Special Olympics Unity Cup’ presented by Coca-Cola at Cape Town Stadium prior to a 2010 Fifa World Cup quarter final match on 3 July.
The participants include:
- Zhang Ziyi (Chinese actress and Special Olympics Global Ambassador)
- Dikembe Mutombo (NBA legend and Global Ambassador)
- His Excellency Jacob G Zuma (president of South Africa)
- Enrique Borja (Mexican striker for Mexican national team from 1966–1975)
- Teofilo Cubillas (South American ‘Player of the Year’)
- Desiree Ellis (former captain of South Africa’s National Women’s Football Team and Fifa ambassador for 2010)
- Lorrie Fair (first American woman to play in Premier Women’s League, and played on US World Cup Championship Team in 1999)
- Kevin Keegan (player and former coach of several football teams in England, and manager of Newcastle United)
- Christian Kerembeu (player on France national team from 1992–2002 and on Fifa World Cup Championship team)
- Hidetoshi Nakata (Asia ‘Player of the Year’, AC Roma)
- Lucas Radebe (former Leeds and South African player, former South African National Football Team captain)
- Clarence Seedorf (AC Milan)
- Alan Shearer (former Newcastle United and all-time Premier League goal scorer)
- Steve Sumner (former New Zealand ‘All Whites’ captain).
Yesterday afternoon, key members of the Unity Cup joined for a photo opportunity as part of Special Olympics Global Congress that’s being held in Marrakech to celebrate this roster of celebrities and global football legends.
Those members included executives Timothy P Shriver (Special Olympics chairman & CEO) and Muhtar Kent (chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company and SpeciaI Olympics International board member), as well as Unity Cup participants Ben Haack (Special Olympics Australia athlete) and Clarence Seedorf (footballer for AC Milan).
“We hope that worldwide fans of football who have tickets to the quarter final in Cape Town will head to the stadium early that Saturday to watch these celebrities and our athletes take to the field,” said Shriver. “Thanks to our global partner, Coca-Cola, we can turn the people’s attention to football not only as a sport, but as a powerful agent of change that can unite people with and without intellectual disabilities.”
Source: The Coca-Cola Company
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