A team comprising people from a refugee camp and a multicultural team were pitted against each other in a football match that was played on Bratislava's Primatial Square on Friday to mark the World Refugee Day observed 20 June each year.
The match was intended to highlight problems that refugees face in Slovakia as well as to point to difficult lives of people who have had to leave their homelands. "More often than not, they come from third-world countries that are they're people of different races and face racial prejudices in Slovakia. There's a reserved or perhaps even negative attitude towards diversity," said Sergio Danilov, who presents a campaign called Sport Unites - Different Colours, One Game.
Zuzana Botiková
