SportThe Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has extended the reach of its social responsibly efforts with 5,400 ultra-durable footballs being donated to the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) in Colombo today (18). Supplied in partnership with the One World Play Project, the ultra-durable balls initiative won gold in the ‘Best Sports CSR Initiative’ category at the prestigious Asia Sports Industry Awards (SPIA) last month. The initiative features the award-winning, ultra-durable One World Futbol developed by One World Play Project. One of our missions under the AFC’s Vision and Mission is to use football for social development. Since 2013, more than 120,000 ultra-durable footballs have been donated by the AFC and One World Play Project, benefitting 1.5 million children in 29 Member Associations across Asia.

Source: Sunday Times November 18, 2016 12:00 UTC