Welcome Letter
As co-founders of Football for Peace, it gives us both great pleasure to invite you to our movement and formally Football for Peace.
Both of us feel we are living in a world which has never been so connected, but yet feels so divided and unbalanced with poverty, inequality, climate, enviromnetal degradation, prosperity, injustice and lack of peace.
Coming as we do from humble upbringings, we understand the fear that comes from isolation, rejection and the unknown. We both relate to young people and their families' struggles.
Through football our aim is to renew hope, educate, build confidence and find peace in the midst of local and global hardship. As professional athletes, we consider football to have a unique capacity to reach far beyond ethic, religious or social differences and challenge divisive narratives.
We also know how dialogue empowers us as humans. Our ambition, therefore, has always been to combine football with the power of dialogue and to build a movement of young people able to bring peace one game at a time.
We invite you to join us and the global community, to foster dialouge and propel this unique movement across the world.
Kind Regards,
Elias Figueroa
Football for Peace
Co-founder
& Fifa 100 Greatest Players of All Time
Kashif Siddiqi
Football for Peace
Co-founder
& International Footballer