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Football and Displacement: What does one have to do with the other?
Live viewing of UEFA Euro football games and discussion
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June 20 is World Refugee Day – this year it coincides with the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. Together with our co-operation partner UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, we combine these topics and ask: What do sports mean for refugees? Our guests include a Bundesliga coach, the former head of the Afghan national football team, Olympic athletes and others. In addition, we will be screening two top matches live at the Documentation Centre: England versus Denmark and Italy versus Spain. Look forward to exciting guests and exciting games over beer and pretzels.
Programme
17.30
Welcome address
Dr Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Katharina Lumpp, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Germany, UNHCR
17.40
Khalida Popal, former captain of the Afghan national football team, on displacement and sports, women's football and the situation in Afghanistan (English)
18.00
Kick-off England v Denmark
Live screening at the Documentation Centre.
18.50
England and Denmark: What is the situation for people seeking protection? We speak to UNHCR experts in these countries. (English)
19.00
Kick-off of the second half
20.00
We talk to Khalida Popal again about what football can mean for girls and young women in particular. (English)
20.20
Alaa Maso, a refugee from Syria who has received asylum in Germany and is competing at the Olympic Games for the second time in Paris, talks to us live from the European Swimming Championships in Belgrade.
20.30
Interview with Sven Spannekrebs, Olympic coach of Yusra Mardini (Netflix film "The Swimmers" and bestseller "Butterfly").
20.45
Daniel Thioune, the coach of the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf (Bundesliga 2) (on air), on the Bundesliga, integration and the power of sports in society.
21.00
Kick-off Italy v Spain
Live screening at the documentation centre.
21.50
Italy and Spain: What is the situation for people seeking protection? We talk to UNHCR experts in these countries. (English)
22.00
Kick-off of the second half
23.00
End of the event
You are invited to beer and pretzels!
FREE ADMISSION
An event organised in cooperation with UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Programme
17.30
Welcome address
Dr Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Katharina Lumpp, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Germany, UNHCR
17.40
Khalida Popal, former captain of the Afghan national football team, on displacement and sports, women's football and the situation in Afghanistan (English)
18.00
Kick-off England v Denmark
Live screening at the Documentation Centre.
18.50
England and Denmark: What is the situation for people seeking protection? We speak to UNHCR experts in these countries. (English)
19.00
Kick-off of the second half
20.00
We talk to Khalida Popal again about what football can mean for girls and young women in particular. (English)
20.20
Alaa Maso, a refugee from Syria who has received asylum in Germany and is competing at the Olympic Games for the second time in Paris, talks to us live from the European Swimming Championships in Belgrade.
20.30
Interview with Sven Spannekrebs, Olympic coach of Yusra Mardini (Netflix film "The Swimmers" and bestseller "Butterfly").
20.45
Daniel Thioune, the coach of the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf (Bundesliga 2) (on air), on the Bundesliga, integration and the power of sports in society.
21.00
Kick-off Italy v Spain
Live screening at the documentation centre.
21.50
Italy and Spain: What is the situation for people seeking protection? We talk to UNHCR experts in these countries. (English)
22.00
Kick-off of the second half
23.00
End of the event
You are invited to beer and pretzels!
FREE ADMISSION
An event organised in cooperation with UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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