YUGOSLAVIA: BRAZILIAN SOCCER STAR RONALDO RECEIVES HERO'S WELCOME IN KOSOVO AS HE KICKS OFF GLOBAL DRIVE AGAINST POVERTY

Record ID: 184321

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: BRAZILIAN SOCCER STAR RONALDO RECEIVES HERO'S WELCOME IN KOSOVO AS HE KICKS OFF GLOBAL DRIVE AGAINST POVERTY
  • Date: 29th September 1999
  • Summary: PRISTINA AND DJAKOVICA; KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 27, 1999) (REUTERS) PRISTINA 1. BRAZILIAN SOCCER PLAYER RONALDO WITH U.N. ADMINISTRATOR IN KOSOVO BERNARD KOUCHNER AND T-SHIRTS FOR UNDP PROJECT "TEAMS TO END POVERTY" 2. RONALDO GOES TO AIRCRAFT 3. RONALDO ON AIRCRAFT DJAKOVICA 4. RONALDO GOES WITH ITALIAN SOLDIERS TO ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER 5. CROWDS 6. RONALDO AT SCHOOL TO WHICH HE DONATED MONEY 7. CROWD 8. RONALDO LEAVES IN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER 9. CROWDS Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th October 1999 13:00
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  • Location: PRISTINA AND DJAKOVICA; KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7VKNNUG8C366IFO4KP85W3YWZ
  • Story Text: Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo got a hero's welcome in
    Kosovo as he kicked off a global drive against poverty and
    made a financial donation to a primary school.

    After meeting United Nations administrator Bernard
    Kouchner in Pristina on Monday (September 27), the Inter Milan
    striker was mobbed by thousands of people when he flew to
    Djakovica, arriving in the town in an armoured personnel
    carrier provided by Italian forces in the region.

    Spectators in the town, known as Gjakova in Albanian,
    cheered, chanted Ronaldo's name and waved signs of welcome.

    Ronaldo is one of many celebrities lined up by the United
    Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to back its 'Teams to End
    Poverty' campaign.The initiative aims to stimulate new
    donations and projects to tackle poverty around the world.

    The former PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona player handed over
    a cheque for an unspecified amount to help the Mustafa Bakija
    school get back on its feet after the conflict between Serbs
    and ethnic Albanians in June.

    UNDP officials said Ronaldo himself had chosen to support
    the school for ethnic Albanians, which suffered damage in the
    conflict and was used by Serb forces during NATO's bombing of
    Yugoslavia this year.

    More often seen in the blue and black shirt of Inter or
    the yellow of Brazil, Ronaldo donned a jacket with the logo of
    the charity Caritas, which is helping the school, over his
    blazer.


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