FIGC on the field with Komen Italy: a Blue Team for the Race for the Cure against breast cancer

This news was published, as news, on the official website of the FIGC.

Also for the 2025 edition, scheduled to be held in Rome on May 11, the Federation will have its own booth with the trophies won by the national team in the Health, Sports and Wellness Village at Circus Maximus and will form its own team

Also for the 2025 edition, scheduled for Sunday, May 11, in Rome, FIGC is joining the Race for the Cure, the signature event of Komen Italia, the largest event to fight breast cancer in Italy and around the world. From Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11 – from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday – the “Health, Sports and Wellness Village” will be active at Circus Maximus, where specialist consultations and diagnostic tests will be offered free of charge. To encourage the adoption of healthier lifestyles and the protection of one’s health, hands-on sessions in sports, fitness, yoga and qi-gong, meditation, proper nutrition and more will also be offered to all. The FIGC will be present during all days with a dedicated booth and will display the 1982 and 2006 World Cups, as well as that of EURO 2020, in the presence of the two official mascots Azzurra and Oscar.

But the FIGC will also take the field with its own team, the Blue Team, which will be at the starting line on Sunday 11 at 10 a.m. for the traditional 2- or 5-kilometer run or walk or the competitive 10km race. Already in recent days, the national team’s female soccer players, with a video, had shown their closeness to the Race and the goals of Komen Italia.

The stars of the Race for the Cure will be women in pink: women who are facing or have faced breast cancer who, with their special pink jerseys, raise awareness of the importance of prevention and send a strong message of encouragement to all women in Italy who face the disease every year.

Funds raised will be used to support the Caravan of Prevention, Komen Italia’s national traveling women’s health promotion program that offers free activities to an ever-widening public to raise awareness and prevent major gender-based cancer diseases. From 2017 to the present, the Caravan of Prevention with its mobile units has carried out more than 800 women’s health promotion days in 17 Italian regions, offering free medical services to more than 200,000 women, in places and realities where prevention arrives with much more difficulty and where there is little time to worry about such a precious good as health.

Not only the Race for the Cure, however: the Federation will also support the Jubilee Caravan, the women’s health protection social project sponsored by Jubilee 2025, Dicastery for Evangelization, at the May 28 stop at St. Faustina Kowalska Parish of Divine Mercy.