The event that is part of “WYD Sports”, a sporting event that is part of the Youth Festival of World Youth Day, brings together hundreds of young pilgrims as participants on the beaches of the Cascais coastline.
On Wednesday, August 2, marked by the arrival of Pope Francis on Portuguese soil, a beach volleyball tournament is taking place, which brings together hundreds of pilgrims from around the world. The competition that takes place this afternoon at Praia de Carcavelos, has the support of the Cascais City Council and is characterized by being the first tournament of this modality to be heldput on a World Youth Day.
“Sport is a uniting factor among everyone. It is able to bring people closer and equal and that is what World Youth Day aims to do too. The Municipality of Cascais has joined this initiative, providing all the necessary sports equipment for this tournament to be a success, "said the councilor within the Sports department in the municipality of Cascais, Francisco Kreye.
To participate in this tournament, young people had to be registered as pilgrims at WYD Lisbon 2023 and be between the ages of 16 and 30. In order to get to know each other better, the organization opted for the model of individual registrations for participants, with the existence of mixed teams, in a dispute of four against four players.
This beach volleyball tournament is part of the “WYD Sports” sporting event, which also features a 7-a-side football tournament played at the University Stadium in Lisbon. In Pavilion 2 of the same sports complex, several pilgrims participate in the practice of sports modalities inclusives, such as Blind Football, Walking Football and Corfebol.
In the words of Pope Francis, delivered at the International Symposium on Sport for All. Cohesive, accessible and adapted to each person: “Sport can be a symbol of unity for a society”.
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