Players For Peace

The GOL ILUMINADO FOUNDATION a Federal Registered 501(c)(3) Not For Profit - works as a Goodwill Organization in support of the United Nations Sport for Development and Peace program, which is a dynamic and powerful platform that was created by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, with the objective to utilize SPORT as the conduit and mechanism to implement educational initiatives for children in need and at risk.

At United Nations Headquarters New York with Secretary General Kofi Annan, Ambassador Heraldo Munoz and fellow Ambassadors Carlos Alberto Torres, Eric Wynalda and Teofilo Cubillas Photo Credit: Steve Leighton

Players For Peace is a movement that works as an organized Commitment of Goodwill, working on concrete LEGACY projects through the GOL ILUMINADO FOUNDATION - to help bring awareness and support for the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 56/75 on "Building a Peaceful and Better World through Sport and the Olympic Ideal", as well as to bring awareness to the UN Millennium Development Goals Program.

Deco, Roberto Assis, Ronaldinho
Futebol pe la Paz - Porto AlegrePhoto Credit: Steve Leighton

"The sporting community has the power to advance humanity and to help ensure that all children everywhere have access to health care, education, protection and equality" (3 Times South American Player of The Year) 'Elias Figueroa' - Chairman of the GOL ILUMINADO FOUNDATION and Players For Peace

Elias Figueroa has a unique perspective on Brasilian Futebol. He is the only 3 Times South American Player Of The Year winning these honors while playing for SC Internacional in Porto Alegre. Internacional won the Brasilian Championship for the first time in 1975 when Figueroa scored the legendary “GOL ILUMINADO”. Elias Figueroa was voted the Greatest “Non-Brasilian” to ever play in Brasilian Futebol and was inducted into the Maracana “Walk Of Fame” in 2005.