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| #BoramaeParkArtificial Lawn Stadium #2025 Professional Football Federation Integrated Football Team Launching Ceremony #Delivery Ceremony for Contributions to the Developmentally Disabled #Seoul City Welfare Center Director Choi Sun-ja, #Captain Yeom Ji-hye, #Director of the Korea Professional Football Federation Lee Jong-kwon Photo courtesy of the Korea Professional Football Association |
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| Boramae Park Artificial Lawn Stadium / 2025 Professional Football Federation United Football Team Launch Ceremony. Photo courtesy = Korea Professional Football Federation |
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'A team that leads to a pass.'
The Korea Professional Football Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Federation) and the Seoul Metropolitan Welfare Center for the Disabled (hereinafter referred to as the 'Welfare Center') held a launching ceremony for the "2025 Professional Football Federation Integrated Football Team".
Integrated soccer is an event in which players with developmental disabilities and non-disabled partners play soccer as a team, improving social awareness of people with developmental disabilities, and aiming for a world where everyone is harmonized together regardless of disability through sports.
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| Korea Professional Football Federation-Seoul Municipal Welfare Center for the Disabled/Director Choi Sun-ja, Seoul Municipal Welfare Center for the Disabled/Lee Jong-kwon, Director of the Korea Professional Football Federation/photo courtesy of the Korea Professional Football Federation |
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Since 2021, the federation has held an annual integrated soccer tournament 'K League Unified Cup' with the K League club and Special Olympics Korea (SOK), and in 2023, the federation and welfare center signed a business agreement to establish and operate the federation's integrated soccer team. At Boramae Park in Dongjak-gu, Seoul on the 1st, the opening ceremony of the '2025 Professional Football Federation Integrated Football Team' was attended by officials and players from both organizations, including Lee Jong-kwon, head of the federation, Choi Sun-ja, and others. Panini S.p.A. and the K-League Panini Trading Card donated by Korea Board Games were also delivered at the launching ceremony. The K-League Panini Trading Card is supported through the K-League Associates Foundation. In addition, in this year's slogan contest for special players of the federation's integrated soccer team for the first time, Kim Min-ji's 'A team leading to a pass' was selected as the winning work and will be used at the integrated soccer field this season. Yeom Ji-hye, captain of the federation's integrated soccer team, said "I would like to thank the federation's executives and employees, the coaching staff of the integrated soccer team, and fellow players for joining me so that I can enjoy soccer to my heart's content."I'll do my best to grow further this year." expressed his determination.
This year, the welfare center conducted a tryout test to select additional players for the integrated soccer team, and four more were selected from the existing 19 to bring the total to 23. Those who are engaged in various jobs, such as childcare helpers, cafe baristas, and music instructors, are developing their soccer skills through training twice a week after work.
Meanwhile, the federation will support soccer supplies, training, and participation in the integrated soccer team so that 'Special' players can enjoy soccer to their heart's content. The funds were raised through the 「1 % Salary Donation Campaign」, in which league members, including league executives and K-League referees, donate 1% of their salaries every month, and were delivered through K-League Associates and the KFA Soccer Love Sharing Foundation.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
