The more public one involves the Rio Games, where Neymar, 24, will try to restore Brazil’s flagging soccer esteem. But institute officials stressed that this is a facility for developing opportunity, not athletes. Photo“It is not a soccer school,” said Altamiro Bezerra, the institute’s finance director. During the Rio Games and the Paralympics, the boys and girls will participate in a mini-Olympics featuring soccer, basketball, volleyball, swimming and judo. “Neymar’s family wants to change the conditions here and give these children the basics: health and education and hope.

Source: New York Times August 06, 2016 18:33 UTC