International Sports Day; 2023 Mexican National Identity

*Goals are to achieve access to healthcare for the sports community

The International Day of Sports for Development and Peace, scheduled for April 6, will have Mexican style activities, such as the use of wrestling masks, announced this Wednesday, after the working meeting between VIPS, at the US Embassy.

At the meeting, held in the Benjamin Franklin library of the diplomatic legation, the Minister of the Embassy, Silvio González, as host, welcomed and stressed that sport is a tool which provides the values of working together and empathy stressing: “For that we are with you”.

The director of the Alfredo Harp Helú Deporte Foundation, Dr. Daniel Aceves Villagrán, indicated that masks with a special design of the Peace and Sport logo, an international organization that drives and promotes the activity globally, will be distributed; as well as t-shirts, white cards and commemorative medals to the multiple sports allies.

For this year’s commemoration, an alliance has been achieved with the Government of Mexico, with its strategy “Together for Peace” to also highlight the positive power of sport and create a more peaceful and just society.

The sports volunteers will wear the mask, shirt and white card in emblematic places throughout the country to take pictures and upload them to all kinds of social networks, Aceves explained.

In addition, sports tournaments will be held at the school and community level to celebrate six days prior to the commemoration called 6 Rumbo al 6, to promote physical activation and sports at all times, said the Olympic medalist.

The objectives of the commemoration are to jointly achieve access to medical care at the Mexican Social Security Institute for the Olympic, Paralympic, adaptive and professional sports community, explained Aceves Villagrán.

He also pointed to designing, promoting and strengthening public policies that articulate the transversality of sport and physical culture with health, education, social welfare, economy, environment and public safety.

Also contribute to the global objectives and goals to reduce physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle and the incidence of non-communicable diseases through sport and promote an increase in public and private resources for the promotion and development of sport at all three levels of government.

Likewise, mitigate migratory movements through sport, favoring social recognition, a sense of belonging with social cohesion, crime prevention and recognizing sport as a human right.

Attendees were Alejandro Barrón and Claudia Mendiola from the US Embassy itself, the director of Youth Integration Centers, Carmen Fernández; the General Secretary of the College of Bachelors, Silvia Guzmán;  Scholas Box Val Mexico Chairman, Héctor Sulaimán; the holder of Physical Culture of the IMSS, Héctor García; the businessman Salvador Quirarte and the Olympic medalist Jesús Mena.

The president of the Federation of Fights, Guillermo Díaz; former world champion, Mariana “Barby” Juárez; Victor Silva, WBC Sub Secretary; the wrestler Atlantis, the representatives of the World Wrestling Council, Sandra Granados and Tatiana Clasing; from the Mexican Baseball League, Carla Román and Oscar Soto; Brigadier General Graduated from the General Staff, Cesar Isaac Niño Ávila, Deputy Director General of Physical Education of Sedena; Salvador Morales, from Indeporte; Luis Miguel Rodríguez Penagos, General Director of the Martí Group; Arturo Cerezo Brizuela, from the University Militarized Sports Penatlon and Adriana Vichi, from the CDNH.